SEHWAG -WITH LEGENDARY PERFOMANCE
VIRENDER SEHWAG HAS BECOME THE HIGHEST SCORING INDIVIDUAL IN A ODI AFTER HIS MINDBLOWING PERFOMANCE AGAINST WEST INDIES.HIS INNINGS INCLUDE 25 FOURS AND 6 SIXES.m very happy for Viru
. It is even more satisfying that an Indian has broken my record."
Sachin Tendulkar, the only other batsman to have hit an ODI double-ton to date
"Well I did watch some of that innings by Viru... Brilliant striking!! Congrats on your 219... That's child abuse! [As] The Mask would say, Smoking!"
West Indies batsman Chris Gayle on Twitter
"I say it again! I never saw Sir Viv bat but I've seen Sehwag bat! What a player, 219 in a one day game is next to impossible!"
Sehwag's team-mate Yuvraj Singh on Twitter
"Wow, Test match tomorrow but am still up watching Virender Sehwag score, hopefully, 200. Unreal, and he does [get the] highest ever. Well done mate."
Australia's David Warner on Twitter
"When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag, the King of entertainment! Long live the King!!"
TV commentator and former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja on Twitter
"Sehwag, the greatest slaughterer of bowling since IVA Richards."Like most of Virender Sehwag's hundreds, there were records aplenty at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore on Thursday. The destructive opener already holds the record for the third fastest double-hundred in Tests, the fastest triple hundred (since the time number of balls per innings were recorded), the highest Test score by an Indian, and others.
But numbers will never tell the story of this once-in-a-lifetime batsman. Now, Sehwag also boasts of the highest score by any batsman in a small matter of 3,223 ODIs. Through all this carnage, Sehwag has not done any favours to bowlers over the years. MiD DAY spoke to four great bowlers who were recipients of his wrath:
Derek Pringle, cricket writer with the Daily Telegraph and former England player
VIRENDER SEHWAG HAS BECOME THE HIGHEST SCORING INDIVIDUAL IN A ODI AFTER HIS MINDBLOWING PERFOMANCE AGAINST WEST INDIES.HIS INNINGS INCLUDE 25 FOURS AND 6 SIXES.m very happy for Viru
Sachin Tendulkar, the only other batsman to have hit an ODI double-ton to date
"Well I did watch some of that innings by Viru... Brilliant striking!! Congrats on your 219... That's child abuse! [As] The Mask would say, Smoking!"
West Indies batsman Chris Gayle on Twitter
"I say it again! I never saw Sir Viv bat but I've seen Sehwag bat! What a player, 219 in a one day game is next to impossible!"
Sehwag's team-mate Yuvraj Singh on Twitter
"Wow, Test match tomorrow but am still up watching Virender Sehwag score, hopefully, 200. Unreal, and he does [get the] highest ever. Well done mate."
Australia's David Warner on Twitter
"When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag, the King of entertainment! Long live the King!!"
TV commentator and former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja on Twitter
"Sehwag, the greatest slaughterer of bowling since IVA Richards."Like most of Virender Sehwag's hundreds, there were records aplenty at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore on Thursday. The destructive opener already holds the record for the third fastest double-hundred in Tests, the fastest triple hundred (since the time number of balls per innings were recorded), the highest Test score by an Indian, and others.
But numbers will never tell the story of this once-in-a-lifetime batsman. Now, Sehwag also boasts of the highest score by any batsman in a small matter of 3,223 ODIs. Through all this carnage, Sehwag has not done any favours to bowlers over the years. MiD DAY spoke to four great bowlers who were recipients of his wrath:
Derek Pringle, cricket writer with the Daily Telegraph and former England player
WHAT A SCORE@!!!
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