Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag, born on 20 October 1978, is a former Indian cricketer who represented India from 1999 to 2013 and is widely regarded as one of the most destructive opening batsmen of his era. A right-handed batsman, he played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Test side in 2001, and in domestic cricket he played for Delhi and Haryana and for Delhi in the Indian Premier League. He holds the highest Test score by an Indian, 319 against South Africa at Chennai, which was also the fastest triple century in Test history, and he scored an ODI double century of 219 against the West Indies in 2011. He won the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 Cricket World Cup with India, shared the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, was named Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for 2008 and 2009, and entered the ICC Hall of Fame in 2023.