Aakash Chopra on Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag: Former cricketer Virender Sehwag used to create fear among the opposition bowlers with his explosive batting. But there came a time in his career when Ganguly threatened to drop him from the team. In the year 2003, when Sourav Ganguly was the captain of the Indian cricket team, he had told Virender Sehwag that if you do not score runs, I will drop you from the team. This has been revealed by former Indian opener Aakash Chopra.
What did Aakash Chopra say?
Aakash Chopra said, ‘This incident happened during the Test series against New Zealand in the year 2003. Virender Sehwag scored a lot of runs in the initial phase of his career. But then his career started getting affected. Runs were not coming from Sehwag’s bat. At that time, Indian team captain Sourav Ganguly went to Virender Sehwag and told him that if you do not score runs, I will drop you from the team. But the interesting thing is that after failing in the first test of this series against New Zealand, Sehwag scored a century in the Mohali test match and scored 130 runs. At that time, Virender Sehwag had failed in 9 consecutive innings and did not score even a single half-century with his bat.
Virender Sehwag’s cricket career
During his career, Virender Sehwag scored 8586 runs in 104 Test matches at an average of 89.34, which included 23 centuries and 32 half-centuries. In which his best score was 319 runs. In 251 ODI matches, he scored 8273 runs including 15 centuries and 38 half-centuries. His best score in this format was 219 runs. Apart from this, Sehwag scored 394 runs in 19 T20I matches. In which his best score was 68 runs.
