Sehwag was the first Indian to score a triple-century in Test cricket in 2004.
Legendary Indian cricketer VVS Laxman is currently in a spree of paying tribute to some of the finest cricketers he's played alongside and some who had an influence on him and his career on Twitter.
After the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, and Javagal Srinath, it is now the turn of the former Indian destructive opener Virender Sehwag to receive accolades and words of appreciation from his former teammate Laxman.
Sehwag is widely regarded as one of the best and destructive Test openers to have ever graced to the game of cricket as well as he was credited to revolutionize the definition of a Test opener by taking on the fast bowlers head-on and smashing them for frequent boundaries at the start of the innings.
In his career, Sehwag surprised many fast bowlers with his destructive style of batting and achieved great success, and Laxman lauded his teammate for the way he decimated oppositions with his confident stroke-play and went on establish himself as one of the most destructive openers in Test history.
Taking to Twitter on Friday (June 5), Laxman paid a tribute to Sehwag, saying the former opener had immense self-belief and positivity which was both "mind-boggling and infectious".
He wrote on Twitter, “Cocking a snook at those who questioned his pedigree against high-quality fast bowling, Virender Sehwag went on to establish himself as one of the most destructive openers in Test history. Viru's immense self-belief and positivity was as mind-boggling as it was infectious.”
Noteworthy, Sehwag, who has the record of being the first Indian batsman to score a triple hundred in Test cricket, played 104 Tests, 251 ODIs and 19 T20Is, in which, he scored 8586, 8273 and 394 runs respectively between 1999 to 2013.