Today Virender Sehwag scored a century on Test debut 20 years ago

On This Day: On this day 20 years ago, Virender Sehwag made his Test debut in South Africa. He scored a century on the first day with a 220-run partnership with master blaster Sachin Tendulkar.

Highlights

 

- 20 years ago on this day Virender Sehwag took entry in Test cricket

- Sehwag becomes 11th Indian batsman to score 100 runs on Test debut

- Virender Sehwag also registered a partnership of 220 runs with Sachin Tendulkar

 

New Delhi. On this day 20 years ago, Virender Sehwag announced his arrival in red ball cricket by scoring a century in his debut Test. By the time Sehwag earned his Test call for India during their tour of South Africa in 2001, he had already become a force to be reckoned with. Team India was to play a three-match Test series against the Proteas team. However, Sehwag did not have to wait long for his debut. He was named in India's playing XI by Sourav Ganguly in the first match of the series at Bloemfontein.

 

After winning the toss, then South Africa captain Shaun Pollock invited the team led by Sourav Ganguly to bat first. Team India's start in the match was not very good. He lost four early wickets – Shiv Sundar Das (9 runs off 50 balls), Rahul Dravid (2 runs off 10 balls), VVS Laxman (30 runs off 32 balls) and Sourav Ganguly (14 runs off 18 balls). India's score became 68 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 20.3 overs.

T20 World Cup: Due to injury, Karthik’

 

gomystories.com/latest-updates/today-virender-sehwag-scor...

Done