Virender Sehwag also called Viru, Nawab of Najafgarh and Sultan of Multan was one of the most destructive openers of all time. He began his international career against Pakistan in an ODI match in 1999.
In the start, he couldn't impress, but in 2001 on Test debut, he smashed a brilliant hundred against South Africa in South Africa and that was the turning point of his career and after that, he went on to become the first Indian batsman to score triple hundred in Test career and in his 14 years international career he broke and created many records and here is a list of records held by Virender Sehwag.
List of Records held by Indian legend Virender Sehwag in International Cricket -
1 - Virender Sehwag was the first Indian batsman to hit triple hundred in Test cricket and he is also the only Indian batsman and overall one of the four batsmen to hit two triple hundreds in Test cricket.
Virender Sehwag's 300 in Test cricket :
309 vs Pakistan at Multan, 2004
319 vs South Africa at Chennai, 2008
11 - Virender Sehwag also holds the unique record of converting 11 consecutive hundreds into 150 plus scores in Test cricket. Between December 2003 and October 2009, he scored 11 Test hundreds and those hundreds' scores were 195, 309, 155, 164, 173, 201, 254, 180, 151, 319 and 201*.
82.23 - Virender Sehwag's batting strike rate of 82.23 in Test cricket is the highest among all those batsmen who have scored at least 2000 runs.
Highest Batting Strike Rate in Test cricket (Min 2000 runs) -
82.23 - Virender Sehwag (8586 runs)
81.95 - Adam Gilchrist (5570 runs)
80.91 - Kapil Dev (5248 runs)
90 - Number of sixes Virender Sehwag hit for India in Test cricket - the most by any batsman.
Most sixes for India in Test cricket -
90 - Virender Sehwag
78 - MS Dhoni
69 - Sachin Tendulkar
61 - Kapil Dev
57 - Sourav Ganguly
219 - Virender Sehwag smashed 219 runs against West Indies in an ODI in Indore in 2011 - the highest individual score by a captain in ODI cricket.
Highest Individual scores by Captains in ODI cricket -
219 - Virender Sehwag vs WI at Indore, 2011
208* - Rohit Sharma vs SL at Mohali, 2017
189 - Sanath Jayasuriya vs IND at Sharjah, 2000
186* - Sachin Tendulkar vs NZ at Hyderabad, 1999
278 - Virender Sehwag took just 278 balls to hit his second triple hundred (vs SA in Chennai, 2008) - the fastest ever triple hundred in terms of balls in Test cricket.
319 - Virender Sehwag also holds the record of the highest individual score for India in Test cricket. He scored 319 runs against South Africa in Chennai Test back in 2008.
Highest individual scores for India in Test cricket -
319 - Virender Sehwag vs SA at Chennai, 2008
309 - Virender Sehwag vs PAK at Multan, 2004
303* - Karun Nair vs ENG at Chennai, 2016
293 - Virender Sehwag vs SL at Mumbai, 2009
7000 - Virender Sehwag is the fastest Indian batsman to reach 7000 Test runs in terms of innings. He took 134 innings to reach this milestone. He is also the fastest Indian to reach 3000 (55 innings) and 4000 runs (79 innings) in Tests.
7500 - Virender Sehwag is the only batsman to score 7500 or more runs in both Test and ODI cricket as an opener. He scored 8207 runs in Test and 7518 runs in ODI cricket as an opener.
16892 - Virender Sehwag scored 16,892 runs for India in international cricket - the sixth most runs for India in international cricket.
Most International Runs for India -
34257 - Sachin Tendulkar
24064 - Rahul Dravid
21901 - Virat Kohli
18433 - Sourav Ganguly
17092 - MS Dhoni
16892 - Virender Sehwag
