Sehwag proves a point, three times over
Posted on Mar 28, 2008 at 19:01 | Updated Mar 28, 2008 at 20:58
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"I was really hurt when I was dropped for the Pakistan series. Maybe it was good for me as it motivated me. I had to prove that I belong," he said after the day's play. "So I had to concentrate on batting to get a big score, and prove I was a better Test player than that.
"I wanted to prove that I belong," he said. And boy, did he or what!
It is almost unbelievable how Sehwag hits the ball. It is an act that is fraught with danger, and frequently Sehwag has been dismissed playing shots, which have been injudicious, at least in hindsight.
But when he does succeed, it's a thing of amazement.
Just look at these statistics: Of the 14 centuries that Sehwag has scored, the last ten, consecutively, have been over 150! Not one other batsman in cricket can boast of such a distinction.
This essentially means that his conversion rate is phenomenal. Of the last ten 100-plus innings, he now has two triple hundreds, two double-centuries, a score of 195, the minimum being 151.
So is 400 out of the realms of possibility? "I'll think about it if I'm batting till lunch tomorrow," Sehwag replies.
Playing the way he did at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Friday, nothing is impossible.
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