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Sehwag sets the trend
By Will 4 months ago, No Comments; be the first!
Google has transformed the way we use the internet, and has been an invaluable (irreplaceable?) tool for journalists. Gone are the days when every hack shuffled into the press box armed with a briefcase of brick-heavy Wisdens. Who needs it when you have Cricinfo at your beck and call?
But anyway. Google do clever things and make all the geeky stuff easier for us slightly less geeky people. After Virender Sehwag’s 309 today, his is the most frequently searched term on Google India…but just look at the top 14: nine of them relate to the current match. Granted, not everyone in India has an internet connection, but that’s still a huge number of people who are getting online and looking for stuff on Sehwag. Extraordinary really.
No Comments »Virender Sehwag goes a little bit bonkers
By Will 4 months ago, 29 Comments »
I suppose I should salvage what few Indian fans I have left by at least mentioning Sehwag’s blistering knock today. Truth is, I only caught brief glimpses of it - just as much fun can be had getting your head around the legalese of the ICL and county players - but it was the speed of his innings which most stood out. He only has two gears: quite fast and very fast. And his footwork - or lack of - was fascinating to watch. He barely moved them an inch, at least to those few scorching drives I witnessed, which tells us two things: he has a ridiculously good eye and fast hands, and the pitch is a screamer.
There was one particularly deft back-cut (you can never have enough late cuts, I say) which sped past the lone slip for four - a model of timing, placement and bravado. His feet didn’t move, he just wafted the bat and it flew away for four. When you’re on a roll…
Still, I was slightly alarmed by all the praise. “Sehwag is an all-time Indian great,” commentators gushed. Steady on. He’s unstoppable on his day, and if South Africa keep feeding him boundary balls he’ll give Brian Lara’s record a run for its money. But he’s no Lara.
Is he?
29 Comments »Sehwag’s 180
By Will 2 years ago, mid-June, 2 Comments »
Blink for a day and you miss an innings. Not been around much to follow any cricket, but have just noticed Virender Sehwag (who I sometimes inadvertantly call Segwah) crunched (smashed, clobbered, belted, pelted) 180 from 190 balls. Ugly! His career strike-rate is now at the obscene average of over 75 which, considering he’s 44 runs from 4000 in Test cricket, is a damn spiffing effort.
Day two is about to start.
2 Comments »Tsunami match at Lords: the Teams
By Will 3 years ago, mid-June, 3 Comments »
The team-sheet for tomorrow’s game has changed since it was announced a month ago - here’re the finalised teams:
MCC: SP Fleming (captain); CH Gayle, S Ganguly, VVS Laxman, JH Kallis, A Flower, KC Sangakarra, SM Pollock, A Kumble, H Singh, S Akhtar.
International XI: BC Lara (captain), V Sehwag, ST Jayasuriya, GC Smith, RS Dravid, S Chanderpaul, CL Cairns, SK Warne, WPUJC Vaas, M Sami, N Ntini.
Some handy players there. Looking forward, in particular, to seeing Laxman (whose name I think is pronounced correctly as “Latchman”?), Gayle, Shoaib, Sehwag and Cairns. The rest? Well, they’re just making up the numbers, aren’t they?
I’ll be blogging, live from the ground with anything I think might be interesting. There are some big hitters in both sides - I’ll need to keep my eye on the ball, something I was never particularly good at…
3 Comments »Player notes: Virender Sehwag
By Will 4 years ago, at the end of November, 3 Comments »
On India’s 2002 tour to England I saw a sign from an Indian supporter: Tendulkar the new Bradman; Sehwag the new Tendulkar.” It was met mainly with knowing nods from Indian supporters & polite smiles from the English. England knew of Sehwag’s talents, but were also aware of his faults and the chances he gave; he was/is such an aggressive player that he’s bound to give chances to the slips and gully (and even 3rd man for the “up and over”).
Things have changed though. The sceptiscm is now undeserved - you only need to look at his record. Remember, this guy has only played 28 matches…
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
28 46 1 2414 309 53.64 72.49 8 7 26 0
Averaging nearly 73 in Test Cricket - as an opener! - is very good. It’s outstanding and pretty rare. If he continues at this rate, he could end up with over 8000 runs and 20 centuries and that old banner I saw in 2002 may not be so far off the mark
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