From Express Archives: A celebration of Virender Sehwag
The unlikely makeover of Virender Sehwag
By Sandeep Dwivedi
In a different time zone and setting, the former Test opener has taken guard for his second innings. This one isn’t on a cricket field. Sehwag swaggers — he never walks — on to a freshly snipped patch of lawn that looks like a giant, green doormat on the porch of an imposing exposed-brick structure. That is the impressive facade of the Sehwag International School (SIS).
By Harsha Bhogle
Virender Sehwag had me sitting on the edge of my seat. Always. It was like watching a thriller except that when you watched it the next time, you still didn’t know what was coming next.
‘I watch replays to enjoy my boundaries’
‘See-ball-hit-ball’ is too simplistic and lazy an explanation to decipher the phenomenon that is Virender Sehwag. As he confesses in a revealing chat with Sandeep Dwivedi, there’s a real art to ‘seeing the ball’ itself. So much so that well before the ball has even pitched, Sehwag knows exactly which hoarding his eventual hit is going to be retrieved from.
‘Who will play Yuvraj’s role?’
Virender Sehwag, member of 2011 WC-winning team, spoke to Sandeep Dwivedi about the problems and prospects of the current squad, what went right during 2011 and about how it was between the players during an Indo-Pak WC game.
