 Virender Sehwag and his appetite of big scores
30th Jan 2008 23:02 IST
Agencies
The match-saving knock that Virender Sehwag played on the fifth day of the fourth Test at the Adelaide Oval was his ninth consecutive 150-plus knock in a total of 13 Test hundreds that he has struck so far.
Consistency and Sehwag usually do not go together but the Indian opener, often criticised for being reckless, has finally got a consistent record to show off through the knock.
On his first tour to Australia in 2003-04, the swashbuckling right-hander piled up 195 in the first innings in the Boxing Day Test but his heroics could not prevent Australia from winning the match by nine wickets.
A couple of months later, came Sehwag's second 150-plus score, in the overcast conditions of England, which might as well be termed the best of his career so far.
Sehwag, who has a reputation of being a hit-or-miss cricketer, became the first Indian batsman to score a triple hundred when he smashed 309 runs against Pakistan in Multan, which not just won the match for India but also firmly established him as a match winner.
A brief lull followed but the 29-year-old more than made up for it with a brilliant 155 in the drawn second Test against Australia in a four-match series in India, which the visitors won 2-1.
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