Virender Sehwag's life introduction, history and awards

Cricket, it is a sport that is liked by everyone and is played in every small locality of every city, even in every street of India. And if we see, big cricketers also come out from this, one of them is Virendra Sehwag. He is also fondly known as Veeru, he is one of the finest batsmen.

Personal information of Virendra Sehwag:

Name: Virendra Sehwag
Other Names : Viru
Name Meaning : Leader of Heroes, Nayak
Decorate Name: Nawab of Najafgarh, Zen Master of Modern Cricke
Date of birth : 20 October 1978
Place of birth : Haryana
Zodiac Sign:
Age: 40 years
Address : 14/5 Laxmi Garden, Najafgarh, New Delhi
School : Arora Vidya School, Delhi Jamia Millia Ismailia College, New Delhi
Educational : Graduate
Total Assets: 40 million (approx.)
Language : Hindi, English
Indian Nationality: Indian
Special friend : Sachin Tendulkar, Harbajan Sing
Main Team : India, Asian Cricket Council XI, ICC World XI, Dehli Daredevils, King XI Punjab.
Coach / Mentor: AN Sharma (Vikaspuri Cricket Center)
Batting Style: Right-Hand Betsmen
Twitter page: @virendersehwag
Facebook Page : Virender Sehwag
Instagram account: Virendersehwag

Birth and Family Information:

Virendra was born in a prosperous and united family in Haryana on October 20, 1990. His father had a grain business and his mother was a duodenum. He had two sisters and a younger brother at home, and he was the third son. He has not done much studies since childhood due to his interest in sports. He got his initial education from Arora Vidya School, Delhi and Jamia Millia Ismailia College, New Delhi. He was married to Aarti Ahlawat in two thousand four years and has two sons, Aryavir and Vedanta. He likes to eat vegetarian, keeping in mind his choice, he has opened a restaurant in Delhi.

Family Information in Short

Father's Name: Kishan Sehwag
Mother's Name: Krishna Sehwag
Brother: 1) Vinod Sehwag
Sister- Two
1) Manju
2) Anju

Marital Status: Merid
Wife: Aarti Ahlawat
Children’s : (1) Aryvir Sehwag
(2) Vedanta Sehwag

Playing Style:

This master blaster was a big fan of Sachin Tendulkar and used to follow him. His playing methods were adopted to a great extent, he used to play with right hand. Initially, his method was misconstrued as per the rules of playing cricket, because he used his arms incorrectly while playing shots and gradually became so perfect by trying. There was no break in his betting, for which he was also called the most exciting batsman.

Look of Virendra Sehwag -
Color : Blonde
Height : 5 Fit 7 Inch
Weight: 63 Kg

Brand Ambassador

It is the brand ambassador of a very large sports company named FILA. Which carries all kinds of footwear and sports accessories. They have made them brand ambassadors for three years, for which they have been given 80 million or more than 25 million a year.

Sponsors Companies -

Adidas
Zandu balm
JK Cement Limited
Ooze
Royal Challenges etc.

Apart from this, there are other companies which they have sponsored.

Virender Sehwag Career:

Early career - He was fond of cricket since childhood, the funniest thing was that when he was just seven years old, he was first given a bat by his father as a toy. Once when he was young, he had a broken tooth while playing cricket, due to which his father was against playing his cricket. But seeing his interest, he got permission to play cricket again on his mother's request.

Early stages of his career:

First of all, he started his career by joining Delhi Cricket in 1997-1998.
In 1998, he was selected by the North Zone cricket team for the Duleep Trophy, when he was named fifth in the total running list. The next year, after hard work, his name came in fourth place in the running list, in which he scored two seven fours. After this, Ranji Trophy was played against Punjab in South Zone, Agartala in Three, Twenty Seven Balls in One Seventy Five.
He was then selected to the Under-19 squad, which was played against South Africa.

One Day International (ODI) Career -

Their start in this did not go well at all, this was their first big match in 1999, which was played against Pakistan. In this, he was dismissed by scoring a run, in which Shoaib Akhtar had run him out in LBW. In this match, his bowling performance was also very bad, in which he gave thirty five runs in three overs. With this interest, he did not get a chance to play in the national team for almost twenty months.
In 2000, he was not given a chance to play against Zimbabwe again. After sustained failure, he worked very hard in 2001 and this was shown when he scored 58 in 54 balls by playing against Australia in Bangalore and won the first man of the match award. Then he was elected as a member of the national team, from here his real career started, due to which he registered his participation in international sports. But he did not stop playing for his team Delhi.
He again achieved the feat of his success in Sri Lanka in 2001 when he was selected for the match against New Zealand in the tree-series. In which Sachin Tendulkar could not play due to his injury, then Ajuddin scored 62 and Yuvraj scored sixty four balls and he scored a century for the first time from his seventy-nine balls. With this, it was the first fastest century in the third ODI.
In ODIs, the first score of more than fifty runs in ten matches was kept for which he was given the man of the match. Sachin and Sehwag's partnership was considered the best during any match. He was selected as a regular player in ODIs after consistent performances.
In January 2002, due to injury to cricketer Saurabh Ganguly, he got another chance in which he scored a good batting performance against Kanpur in Kanpur by scoring sixty four balls.
Apart from this, he played the Cricket World Cup in 2003, in which he scored two hundred ninety-nine runs, which had an average of twenty seven runs. During this match, he scored eighty runs by playing against Australia in the final but unfortunately India lost it. Playing one match after the other in succession, he played against New Zealand in Hyderabad in 2003, in which Sachin and his partnership was made, scoring one hundred and thirty runs, scoring one hundred and twenty eighty runs and scoring a fourth century.
Won three MOM Awards in 2004 ODIs which were played against Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. His best performance was in Kochi when he played against Pakistan in that he scored a brilliant victory by scoring one zero at the ninth five balls.
In 2006, due to injury to shoulder, Pakistan did not play properly for two years in ODIs, due to which their score board went down its graph and fell behind in ODIs. Because of which he was dropped from the WI-IND match. It was a very difficult time for them, due to which they were refused to take part in the 2007 World Cup. Then captain Rahul Dravid, showing confidence in him, included him in the team but Sehwag was a failure in him and his performance in the first group was poor. But after this, he made his magnificent return, one hundred and fourteen runs in Satyasi balls. With this, the Indian team scored the most runs in the World Cup, which was their only win in the tournament.
In 2009, he scored the fastest century in ODIs against New Zealand, which was hit on fifty balls. This was the first series against New Zealand in which he led India, it was a big win for him.
He broke all the records so far by playing against the West Indies in Indore in 2011. In this match, Sehwag scored two hundred nineteen runs in one hundred forty five balls and crossed the record of eight thousand runs in ODI cricket. Here he proved to be a strong player for the Indian team.
In the first tour of South Africa in the England series, he scored four Twenty Sixes with four fifties.
After returning from the England tour, he scored two seven one runs in the ICC Champion's Trophy, in which he got the man of the match twice. Here was his partnership with Ganguly, in which he scored one hundred twenty six runs in one hundred and four balls and registered a win against England by eight wickets.
With this, they played against the West Indies in Rajkot and won by nine wickets. The biggest thing was that New Zealand was the only batsman to score a century in seven matches in the ODI series.

One Day International (ODI) Records

Betting            bowling                           fielding    captaincy

Innings    244     overs       731                catches       92            total matches           12
Not out     10   best overs 4/6 most catches 4             matches won 7
Highest    219     balls 4391
Average 35.05
Scoring rate 104.30
Fifties       37
Century    16
Open betting 211

Test Match Career

In his Test match, he came down completely and in these matches, he went on to break the record of runs by playing innings. He played the first Test match against South Africa in the year 2001 and scored one hundred and five runs.
Played home series against England and Zimbabwe in 2002 and scored two runs from Chorasi, and scored a century in the second Test match.
In 2003 he played the first home series which was against the West Indies, in which he scored a hundred and forty-seven runs and scored a century. For which he got the title of making the top score. With this, he scored one hundred and thirty runs against New Zealand in Mohali in 2003.
In early 2004, he broke all previous records by scoring three hundred and nine runs against Pakistan in Multan (VVS Laxman had a record of 211 runs against Australia in this). And this was the twenty-first Test match, in which he had a six century. After this, he won the title of man of the match by scoring ninety runs in the next Test match in Lahore.
In 2004, cricketer Sunil Gavaskar played in Bangalore for the trophy, in which Empire Billy Bowden dismissed him as LBW. After this, Sehwag scored one hundred and fifty five runs in Chennai, but due to rain here, the match was postponed. In the first home series against South Africa in the same year, the Indian team finished second by scoring one hundred and sixty four runs in Kanpur in the first test and eighty eight runs in Kolkata, for which they were awarded the Men of the Series.
During the home series in 2005, he scored one hundred and seventy-three runs in Maholi respectively, eighty one runs in Kolkata, two hundred and one runs in Bangalore, in which he averaged five hundred and forty five runs. For which he received the award of the Man of the Series. He had crossed the record of three thousand runs in the Bangalore Test match. He got the title of ICC Test Team of the Year by scoring the fastest run in the innings, due to which his name was selected as Test player.
He played against Australia in the ICC Super Series in 2005, in which he scored seventy-six runs in the first innings. But for some time, his performance was not good, he scored just fifty runs in four matches against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. After some time, he returned to the team in Ahmedabad and due to Dravid being ill, he was made captain at that time.
In 2006, the first test match was played against Pakistan in Lahore, scoring two fifty four runs and making the most Test runs, scoring a double century. After that, by partnering with Rahul Dravid, he made four hundred and ten against Pakistan and broke all the records of Test matches so far.
In the opening round of the second Test match in the West Indies in 2006, he was dismissed for very few runs in several matches, but later he won the Man of the Match by scoring one hundred and eighty runs on one hundred ninety balls. He was tried for bowling for the first time in the West Indies tour when Harbajan Sing was not present but was not right for bowling.
Due to not playing well in 2007, he was kept out of the game for some time, after which he continued to work hard.
He made a comeback in the home series again in 2008 and played a good match against South Africa. At the Chidambaram Stadium, he scored three hundred nineteen runs in the first Test, in which he scored history of making the fastest triple century in a Test match by scoring three hundred runs in two hundred and eighty-eight balls. On the third day, he scored two hundred and fifty runs, in which the record of many years was broken.

Virendra Sehwag's retirement -

After playing cricket for nearly fifteen-sixteen consecutive years, he announced his retirement from all IPL matches in the year 2015.

Career Related Highlights

1. The first ODI was played on April 1, 1999.
2. The last ODI was played on 3 January 2013.
3. The first T20 match was played on 1 December 2006.
4. The last T20 match was played on 2 October 2012.
5. The first Test match was played on 3 November 2001.
6. The last Test match was played on 5 March 2013.

Virendra Sehwag Awards:

Arjuna Award was received in 2002. Wesden Leading Cricketer in the World Award was received in 2008.
Won the ICC Test Player of the Year Award in 2010. Padmashri Award was received in 2010.

Virendra Sehwag’s Controversies

In 2001, at St. George's Park in Elizabeth, where the ICC match against India and South Africa was going on, referee Mike Daines banned the "original appling" in a test match. In which the first six players were named, which later became four, for which these players were banned for the match, which became a big issue, after all the investigations, Mike Daines was removed from the post of referee.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and them also had differences which they solved over time.
Apart from cricket, sometime ago, in Kerala, on some issue, a wrong tweet was made on the murder of a tribal man, due to which it was surrounded in controversies, then he finally apologized on social media.

Interesting things related to Virendra Sehwag's life:

When he started playing in Delhi's Kotila Maidan in the early days, he used to go with his scooter, which was called Chetak.
After his success, his fans honored him with different names, some named "Sultan of Multan" and some named "Nawab of Najafgarh".
It was very big fan of Sachin from the beginning and used to follow him, when in an interview with him, in which case you are different from Sachin, then smiling reply was received in bank balance.
His highest runs have been three hundred nineteen, and he has scored seven thousand runs in the fewest innings.
He announced his retirement from cricket on the 30th birthday of 2015.
In the year 2017 itself, he has made a record of more than ten million followers.
They also have their own international school named Sehwag International School which is in Main Road Gurgaon, Jhajjar (Haryana).
In 2006, he opened a vegetarian restaurant named Sehwag’s Favorites.

Likes and Dislikes

Favorite hero (superstar) : Amitabh Bachchan, superstar Shahrukh Khan
Favorite sweets : are very much like kheer and mango
Favourite Stadium: Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi
Other Favorite Games : Table Tennis, Badminton
Favorite cricket (favorite cricketers) : Sachin Tendulkar

Net Worth of Virendra Sehwag:

Sehwag's name is included in the list of 10 most cricketers, according to the data received, these total assets are more than 2 hundred 65 crores.
1. Income from ODI match is about four lakh rupees
2. Income from T20 match is about two lakh rupees
3. Income from test match is about seven lakh rupees
4. Approximately 3.2 crores in 2015 from IPL auction
5. Retirership fees at around Rs 25 lakhs per year

Virender Sehwag remains a favorite player in the heart of all cricket lovers and the commentary and social media posts made by him in the present day have retained their own identity, thus he is a player with many qualities.

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