Sehwag was born in a Jat family from Haryana.The 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 hails from Haryana. Sehwag was the third of four children born to father Krishan and mother Krishna Sehwag, with two older sisters Manju and Anju, and younger brother Vinod. Sehwag made his debut for Delhi cricket team in first class cricket in the 1997–98 season. He was selected to the North Zone cricket team for the Duleep Trophy the following 1998–99 season, ending fifth in the total runs scoring list. The following year he was fourth on the Duleep Trophy run scoring list, including a 274, the highest score of the competition.This was attained against South Zone at Agartala in just 327 balls, and followed a rapid 187 from just 175 in a Ranji Trophy match against Punjab. He was then selected for the U-19 team which toured South Africa.
Since his international career started, he has continued to play for Delhi in the domestic competition.
Sehwag’s ODI career started poorly when he scored 1 against Pakistan in Mohali in April 1999 when he fell lbw to Shoaib Akhtar. His bowling performance was also ineffective and expensive, conceding 35 runs off 3 overs. He did not get another chance in the national team for 20 months.
In early 2004, he became the only Indian to score a triple century in Test cricket, with 309 against Pakistan in the First Test in Multan, beating V. V. S. Laxman’s previous Indian record (281 against Australia) and helping India to a total of 5/675, the highest ever against Pakistan. It was Sehwag’s sixth Test century in 21 Tests.[52][53] India went on to win by an innings, with Sehwag named man of the match.
Identify the Player:
Write a brief description about him in 250 words.
Questions of this week:
1. Which team was the winner of the ongoing IPL-7?
2. For which team Pankaj Singh played in IPL-6?
3. Who top scored for KKR in their IPL-7 final?
4. Name the team which won the title trophy in Inter-District Under-14 Boys Cricket Tournament?
5. Who is Jatin Wadhawan?
Answers of the last week: 1.KXIP, KKR 2. KXIP 3. Virender Sehwag 4. District Jammu 5. Former Ranji trophy player of J&K.
The best entry of this week was received from Parth Sharma of Trikuta Nagar, Jammu.
The other entries of the week were from Sanjay Dhar, R/o Lane No-1, H-No 3, Upper Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu; Tushar Mahajan, 55 Lower Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu; Anju Bala of Gandhi Nagar, Jammu; Pradeep Kumar of New Plots, Jammu and Ramesh Singh of Samba.
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