Sourav Ganguly Makes a Huge Remark on Virender Sehwag's Batting
Updated - 03 Mar 2018, 01:05 PM
Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly recently lauded his former teammate Virender Sehwag’s aggressive style of batting.
Meanwhile, Sehwag is one of the best openers India has ever had. However, Ganguly feels Sehwag would not have been as good a batsman as he was if didn’t bat as an opener.
Meanwhile, Sehwag started as a second drop batsman when he made his ODI debut way back in 1999. However, three years later, it was Ganguly who promoted him as an opener.
Ganguly promoted Sehwag as an opener:
It was a match against Sri Lanka in 2002 when Ganguly decided to encourage Sehwag in the batting order. Since then, he went on pile runs for India in all the formats. Further, he was one India’s finest opening batsman winning several matches for India.
In a recent event following the launch of his new book ‘A Century Is Not Enough’, Ganguly recalled the time when he promoted Sehwag to open the innings.
“I was just pushed into it. Like I did to Sehwag. That’s why in this book [A Century Is Not Enough] I’ve mentioned that the best things in life are unwanted. So be open. And be approachable. Don’t close your mind to things. And it came out from my own experience as an opener,” Ganguly said to Scroll.
“The way Hayden and Langer went about as openers. That forced me to push Sehwag as an opener. I said ‘You do it. We’ll see what happens.’ And Sehwag wouldn’t have been half the player if he wasn’t an opener. So I’m convinced that the best things in life happen unwanted. From nowhere,” he added.
Meanwhile, Sehwag is the only Indian batsman to score two triple hundreds in Test cricket. He scored 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004 and 319 against South Africa in Chennai in 2008.
Currently, Sehwag has taken up commentary post his retirement from cricket. Also, he is the mentor of the Kings XI Punjab, a franchise-based team in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
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