Virender Sehwag is considered one of India's best batters from the yesteryears. He is widely considered as the player who revolutionised powerful hitting while opening the batter and has single-handedly won India multiple international matches
After his retirement nine years back, many current members of Team India, or up-and-coming have been compared to Sehwag and his playing styles. But the star batter, who has two triple centuries (in Tests), and multiple double centuries (even one in ODIs)
has completely dismissed such talks by saying that no one from the current team — barring two — come close to replicating her style.
"I don't think so there is any player in the Indian team who bats like me. The two players who came to my mind who have come close to it are Prithvi Shaw and Rishabh Pant. I think Rishabh Pant is a little bit close to what I used to bat like in Test cricket but he is satisfied with 90-100 but I used to score 200, 250 and 300 and then be content. If he took his game to that level then I think he can entertain the fans even more," Sehwag said during News18.
Sehwag became the first Indian batter to score a triple century in 2004 against Pakistan and completed this feat a second time in India while facing South Africa in 2008. In 2011 in Indore, he became just the second Indian to hit a double century in ODIs when he was the captain of India. In doing so, he also became the first captain to smash a double century in ODI cricket.
The batter from Punjab spoke about his technique and gave an insight into his mindset while he was batting.
"I used to play tennis ball cricket where my mindset was to hit more runs through boundaries. I played with the same template in international cricket and used to calculate how many boundaries I need to score a century. If I am on 90 and to reach 100 if I take 10 balls then the opposition has 10 balls to get me out, which is why I used to go for boundaries and gave them only two balls to stop me reaching the triple figure-mark. The risk percentage rate dropped from 100 to 200," mentioned the former India opener.
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