Virender Sehwag Reveals Bizarre Superstition Of His Long-Time Friend From Domestic Cricket

Former Indian batsman Virender Sehwag defied the odds while he batted in international cricket. He had the habit of reaching landmarks with a six and he did it several times in his career. He played 104 Tests and 251 ODIS, and 19 T20Is for India scoring nearly 20000 international runs. 

Meanwhile, in a conversation with Cricbuzz Virender Sehwag spoke about a bizarre superstition that one of his friends, Rajeev Nayyar. from domestic cricket had. The batter holds the record for the longest innings in First-class cricket (271 for Himachal Pradesh against Jammu & Kashmir in 1999), playing for 1,015 minutes during a Ranji Trophy game.

We Tore The T-Shirt Because Of His Superstition: Virender Sehwag On Rajeev Nayyar

Nayyar played 96 first-class games and scored 6881 runs in them. Sehwag said that Nayyar had the habit of wearing the same T-shirt because it made him feel comfortable. 

“There was this player named Rajeev Nayyar in Himachal Pradesh. He used to wear the same t-shirt again and again. It wasn’t as if he would score whenever he wore that shirt, but he felt comfortable and he was superstitious about it; he felt he would score runs if wears the shirt,” Sehwag said on Cricbuzz.

“So, when we were playing in the North Zone, we tore that shirt because we knew when Delhi and Himachal would meet, he would play wearing the same shirt! So we tore that shirt so that he doesn’t score against us,” Sehwag said, inducing laughter from fellow expert Ajay Jadeja and host Gaurav Kapur.

Virender Sehwag also spoke about how he had the habit of writing down his thoughts about his mindset every time he took the field. Sehwag is a part of the Cricbuzz Live panel discussing and analysing his thoughts after every match of the ongoing IPL 2022.

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