Cricketing Anecdotes - Shane Warne's Century, No 35 - Virender Sehwag

[mcgillianaire]

"Off the field, I find him to be a really funny guy. Jeremy Snape told me a great story about him while we were working together in the Indian Premier League. Sehwag and Snape were batting for Leicestershire against Middlesex when Abdul Razzaq started reverse swinging the ball in the way that the Pakistan bowlers do. Sehwag came up to Snape and said: “We must lose this ball. I have a plan.” Next over, he whacked that ball clean out of the ground, forcing the umpires to pick another from the box that would obviously not reverse straight away. To which Sehwag said: “We are all right for one hour.” Smart, I say." -Shane Warne [LINK]

Comments

[drunkendeadcat.livejournal.com]

hehe good tactics

[pappubahry.livejournal.com]

Sehwag's great. I wish I could dig up the story where he was in the dressingroom watching Tendulkar and Dravid batting very carefully, and he was constantly muttering to the rest of the team how they should be trying to hit boundaries. Of course that's what Sehwag did when he went out to bat.

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

I think I know which story you're referring to. He's known to shout "googly" and "hit it" (in Hindi) and "boundary" from the dressing room without even watching it on the tele. He hates it when top order batsmen play too carefully and like you said in the example above, when he gets out to bat he plays the ball according to its merit. And that's how the game should be played.