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How Sehwag achieved the rare feat

Posted on Mar 28, 2008 at 20:43 | Updated Mar 29, 2008 at 13:19 Comment Comments Email Email Print Print
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When he is in the mood, there is no other batsman as dangerous as Virender Sehwag. The South Africans learnt it the hard way on Friday.

Between lunch and tea, 108 runs came from Sehwag's blade (with 133 runs added into team's total!). Scoring a hundred in a session is no mean achievement. This can be gauged from the fact that this feat has been achieved on only five occasions by Indian batsmen. Sehwag is the only one to do so twice.

Indian batsmen scoring a hundred in a session
Runs	Batsman	Opp	Venue	Season	Day	Session
103	M Azharuddin (179)	v Eng	Manchester	1990	3rd	Lunch-Tea
121	VVS Laxman (167)	v Aus	Sydney	1999-00	3rd	Tea-Close
109	V Sehwag (254)	v Pak	Lahore	2005-06	4th	Lunch-Tea
108	V Sehwag (309*)	v SA	Chennai	2007-08	3rd	Lunch-Tea
102	Yuvraj Singh (169)	v Pak	Bangalore	2007-08	1st	Tea-Close

This is how Sehwag made his runs in the second session (between Lunch and Tea) on Friday.

Wagonwheel
Thirdman	10
Point	10
Covers	33
Long-off	11
Long-on	15
Mid-wicket	0
Square-leg	13
Fine-leg	16

Run-pattern
Dots	26
Ones	19
Twos	1
Threes	1
Fours	18
Sixes	2

Performance against each bowler
Name	Balls	Runs	4s	6s	SR
Steyn	13	15	3	0	115.38
Ntini	11	34	4	2	309.09
Morkel	15	18	4	0	120.00
Harris	22	35	6	0	159.09
Kallis	6	6	1	0	100.00