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Sehwag was born in the Jat family [19] of a grain merchant. [20] He spent his childhood in a joint family with siblings, uncles, aunts and sixteen cousins. Though now settled in New Delhi, the Sehwag family hails from Haryana. Sehwag was the third of four children born to father Krishan and mother Krishna Sehwag, with two older sisters Manju ...
In the second Test match, he scored a match-saving 137 in the second innings. He stood more than five sessions in the middle and faced over 430 balls. This innings led Virender Sehwag, Gambhir's opening partner, close friend, and captain for the match, to call him 'The Second Wall' in reference to Rahul Dravid. He then scored 167 in the second ...
On the 2003–04 tour to Australia, he frequently partnered with Virender Sehwag, including two century opening partnerships in Melbourne and Sydney. As an opening batsman, Chopra was credited with the large scores that India accumulated in that series, surpassing middle-order batsmen Rahul Dravid , V. V. S. Laxman , Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav ...
Sehwag is the first Indian to score a triple century (300 or more runs), and has done so twice—309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004 and 319 against South Africa in Chennai in 2008. [10] The latter is the fastest triple century in Test cricket, the 300 coming up off just 278 balls, and is also the highest score with a strike rate over 100 ...
Virender Sehwag was particularly watchful, and at one stage, had made only 16 runs from 53 balls. The two openers also played out three successive maidens within this period. However, by lunch, they made 89 for no loss, and by then Sehwag had completed his fifty from 78 balls, with eight fours and one six, the latter being swung away inside-out ...
Rohit Sharma was born on 30 April 1987 into a Telugu-Marathi–speaking family in Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. [9] [10] [11] His mother, Purnima Sharma, is from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. [12] His father, Gurunath Sharma, worked as a caretaker of a transport firm storehouse.
The others are Brian Lara and Chris Gayle (both West Indies), and Virender Sehwag . A triple century (an individual score of 300 runs or more) in Test cricket has been scored on 32 occasions by 28 batsmen from eight of the twelve Test-cricket playing nations. [1] No player from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ireland or Zimbabwe has scored 300. [1]
Diana Edulji (born 26 January 1956) is an Indian former cricketer. [1] Born in Mumbai to a Parsi family, [2] she was drawn to sports at an early age. She grew up playing cricket with a tennis ball in the railway colony where she lived.