Virender sehwag [VIRU]

Virender Sehwag is born on 20 October 1978 in his home town Delhi and also known as “viru”. Sehwag is an extremely attacking right handed opening batsman and an occasional right arm off spin bowler. Sehwag had  married to  Aarti Alhawal in April 2004, which was hosted by “Arun jaitley” the union law minister of India at his residence. Sehwag son is also  born on October 18, 2007.  Sehwag is a son of a grain merchant, Sehwag spent his childhood in a bungalow in a joint family with siblings, uncles, aunts and sixteen cousins. Though now settled in New Delhi,, the Sehwag family hailed from Haryana. Sehwag was the third of their four children born to father Krishnan and mother Krishna Sehwag with two older sisters Manju and Anju and younger brother Vinod Sehwag attended “Arora Vidya School” in Delhi, and pestered his parents to let him play cricket. His father tried to end his career when he broke a tooth a child in 1990, but Sehwag evaded the ban with the help of his mother.  Sehwag is fondly referred to in the media as the “Nawab of Najafgarh”, Najafgarh being his home locality in Delhi. Sehwag is purely vegetarian, Sehwag favorites which opened in late 2005 in the fun Republic Cineplex in Delhi, following the footsteps of his role model Sachin Tendulkar. The majority of the products on the menu are named after clicking themes related to his memorable innings, such as “Multan ke Sultan ki Takdi” meaning dish for three persons, which alludes to his triple century in Multan and is priced at 309 rupees. 
There are plans to expand the chain across India with a second outlet already planned in Ludhiana Sehwag does charity work for UNICEF. Sehwag basically known for the aggressive batting and hard hitter of cricket ball. He like’s to hit every ball which he plays. Starting his style of batting looked as if  Sachin was batting; his batting style was same as like Sachin Tendulkar. The shots which he would play to off drive, on drive, straight drive and flick would like Same as if Sachin is batting at that end. 
                            
                                                                                                                         Sehwag started playing cricket from his childhood. His father’ support was also with him. Sehwag made his debut for Delhi Cricket team in first class cricket in the 1997-98 season then he was selected to the North Zone cricket team for the Duleep Trophy following with 1998-99 season. That year he was fourth on the Duleep Trophy run scoring list, including a 274, and it was top score of that tournament. He played brilliant knock against Punjab in Ranji Trophy and then he was selected for the under-19 team, national team which toured South Africa. He made many runs at the starting and stood seventh in 2000-01 season with two centuries in the scoring list. His performance earned to make the selectors as a regular member of the national team. Although he was playing for India and continued to play for his home team Delhi in the domestic cricket and had many victories under his belt.

                                                                                            Sehwag made his ODI debut against Pakistan in Mohali in April 1999, but he scored only just one run in that match and he was picked into the team as an all rounder and middle order batsman who can bat, but he could not impress with his bat or bowl by his performance, he could impress everyone when he scored 58 off 54balls against Australia in Bangalore and also took 3wickets which helped India to victory and was also awarded his first “Man of the Match” award. His aggressive batting made selectors and management to think about him to promote his batting order and from there he became genuine opener batsman for India. Sehwag scored his first century in 69 balls against New Zealand and it was also second fastest century behind Mohammad Azharuddin (62 balls). This performance made him the regular spot in ODI squad and made permanent fixture at the top of the innings. In the England series and the preceding tour to South Africa he compiled 426 runs at 42.6 with four half centuries. After modest returns on the tours of the West Indies and England in early and mid 2007 he scored 271runs at 90.33 in the 2002 ICC champions Trophy in Sri Lanka with two “Man of the Match” performances.

Virender Sehwag had a mediocre 2003 cricket World cup scoring 299 runs at an average of 27, he top scored with 82 in the loss against Australia in the final. In spite of his great performances and brilliant knocks he played which helped India to victory in most matches struggled for consistency in 2003 and 2003/04 ODI series, but even with his inconsistency form he earned 3 “Man of he Match” awards in 2004 and 2004/05 ODI season. When ever he scored century for India his strike rate would be more than 100, later his scoring rate has translated into significant contributions in ODI format to pick him into Test cricket. Sehwag was dropped from the ODI squad for the West Indies 4 match ODI series with debate over whether he needs to be included in the 2007 cricket world cup squad, but by the insistence of captain Dravid Sehwag was picked into the world cup squad, despite Sehwag’s form continued to decline. In ODI cricket Sehwag has enjoyed the most success against New Zealandscoring 4 of his eight centuries whilst averaging 45 in 16 games. Sehwag‘s worst record is against world champions Australia where he averages only 22 in 17 games. 

                                                                          Coming onto his Test cricket, he made Test debut against South Africa aBloemfontein in 2001 as a middle order batsman. He scored 105 on debut despite the South African win. After scoring 2 half centuries in the preceding series against England and Zimbabwe he was promoted to make shift opener on the 2002 England tour after the failure of previous openers. He scored 84& a century at that position after promoting .His maiden home century came against West Indies in the 2002=03 season in Mumbai. In early 2004, he became the only Indian to score a triple century in Test history with 309 against Pakistan in the First Test in Multan, beating V.V.S Lax man’s previous Indian record and Indian went on to win that month with his great effort. He later auctioned the bat with which he made the triple century for Rs. 70,000 to aid in relief efforts for the Tsunami victims of the 2004 Indian Oceanearthquake. Sehwag passed the 300 run mark in Tests during the Bangalore Test, becoming the fastest Indian to reach the mark in terms of innings played. His performances over the preceding 12 months earned him selection in the ICC Test team of the year as well as nomination for Test player of the year. Sehwag is also involved in a 410run partnership with Captain Rahul Dravid. The highest ever against Pakistan and just 4short of a new world record opening partnership in Test matches. Poor form saw Sehwag being dropped from the Test team in 2007. He made his come back in the third Test at the WACA in Perth against Australia and scored 151 second innings of the fourth Test in Adelaide. Sehwag continued his good form against South Africa in the home series in April 2008, scoring 319 in the first Test in Chennai.

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History of the Indian cricket team

Cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th-century and the first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in 1792, India's national cricket team did not play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's.^[9] They became the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status.^[10] In their first fifty years of international cricket, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 test matches.^[11] The team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet—Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (both off spinners), Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (a leg spinner), and Bishen Singh Bedi (a left-arm spinner). Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, the Indian team has improved its overseas form since the start of the 21st century. India was invited into The Imperial Cricket Council in 1926 and made its debut as a Test-cricket-playing-nation in 1932 led by CK Nayudu.^[16] The match was given Test status despite being only 3 days in length. The team was not strong in its batting at this point and went on to lose by 158 runs.^[17] The Indian team continued to improve throughout the 1930s and '40s but did not achieve an international victory during this period. The team's first series as an independent country was in 1948 against Sir Donald Bradman's Invincibles (a name given to the Australian cricket team of that time). Australia won the five-match series, 4–0.^[18]


                                    The Indian cricket team is the national Cricket team of INDIA. Indian team is governed by the board of control for Cricket in INDIA. BCCI is a part of International Cricket Council [ICC]. International cricket council [ICC] prepare The schedule of cricket with the respective boards. The Indian cricket team Currently ranked third in Test as well as ODIs. Team India won the Two worldcup till today In 1983 and 2011 and one T-20 worldcup on 2007 first time in the captaincy of Cool captain MAHINDER SINGH DHONI [MSD]. In 1983 India became the world champs after beating West Indies in the Captaincy of Kapil Dev. Players like Kapil dev, Ravi shastri, Kris shrikkant, Yashpal sharma, balvinder sandhu, Sandeep patil, Madan lal, Sunil gavaskar, Kirti azad where the part of 1983 worldcup who defeated West indies side and became the world champs 1st time. India were the runner up in 2003 worldcup under the captaincy of Saurav Ganguly who taught Indian team to never give up. Just go and Fight Till u get success. In 2007 worldcup India went out of Worldcup in 1st group only in the captaincy of Dravid but still India didnt loose their hope of winning the worldcup and after four years India have won the Worldcup cup in tha captaincy of Dhoni and India won by beating toughest team like Australia in Quarters, Pakistan in semis which was the 1st final and the Srilanka in Finals.  India have also been the Runners-up in 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, and the Joint Champions along with Sri Lanka in 2002 ICC Champions Trophyled by Sourav Ganguly in both the instances. 


                    The Current Team contains many big players like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Mahendra singh Dhoni, Yuvraj singh, harbhajan singh, Zheer khan, Ashish nehra, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, etc..There are many Young players in India like Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul sharma, Vinay kumar, Ashwin, etc Who are performing excellently in ODIs.  Indian Team won the Many cups like Traingular series in Australia, Natwest series in England, Two world cup  and ! T-20 Worldcup, asia cup In Pakistan, Srilanks etc.. 


                     Indian team makes us proud when they win against the tough teams.. they never give up. "Those who dont stand with the Indian Team in their bad times, They dont have the right to celebrate after their success", these slogan was prepared by me when people of India abbuse Indian Team after their one match loss and those people only say good after their one win. Indian team was Excellent team, is excellent team, and would be excellent team in future. lets hope India win many worldcups in future and make us Proud in front of Different nations. 
                JAI HIND