Sehwag & his Double century Record(293) During Test Match Against SL

Sehwag and his Heroics

It was on the 2^nd of Dec 2009 when the 3^rd Test match between Sri Lanka and Cricket India started. It was Indian Cricket hero who contributed to the most of the scores, guess who, it was none other than Sehwag! It wasn’t a very difficult task for him to score double century, he was just 16 runs away from creating a record of completing his triple century on that day of the match.

After Don Bradman from Cricket Australia, and Hammond from England, it’s Sehwag who scored a double century of 284 in a day’s match and with this he has bagged the third place in the history of centuries.

Below is the list of most runs scored by a player in a day’s game:

Player	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
DG Bradma	Australia	v England	Leeds	11-Jul-30
WR Hammond	England	v New Zealand	Auckland	31-Mar-33
V Sehwag	India	v Sri Lanka	Mumbai	2-Dec-09
DCS Compton	England	v Pakistan	Nottingham	1-Jul-54
DG Bradman	Australia	v England	Leeds	20-Jul-34
V Sehwag	India	v South Africa	Chennai	26-Mar-08

It wasn’t any easy for the Cricket Sri Lankan players to stop Sehwag from hitting centuries. It looked like they were in the battlefield fighting against Sehwag from scoring his runs. With 40 Boundary Shots and 7 over the ropes, Sehwag managed to score 293 runs. He backed by not scoring just 7 runs which would have led him to complete his triple century. It was a very good score to hit 284 runs from 239 balls on the first day of the match and 293 out of 254 balls within the second day. With this he nearly became the first Indian cricketer to score three triple hundreds before falling seven-run short of the mark.

People from India and possibly from various places may have been eagerly waiting for Virendar Sehwag to complete his 3^rd triple century, but it just left all in shock when Sri Lankan Cricketer Muralitharan caught and bowled him before he could take off to 300.  It may be disappointing for Cricket india but there is always a chance and we are sure to watch this hero hitting more than triple century in test matches! However we have a list of players who were heartbroken just like Sehwag for not completing 300 runs and were out with 290’s.

Below is the list of player’s getting out with 290 runs:

Player	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
DG Bradman (Aus)	299	v South Africa	Adelaide	29-Jan-32
MD Crowe (NZ)	299	v Sri Lanka	Wellington	31-Jan-91
V Sehwag (India)	293	v Sri Lanka	Mumbai (BS)	2-Dec-09
IVA Richards (WI)	291	v England	The Oval	12-Aug-76
RR Sarwan (WI)	291	v England	Bridgetown	26-Feb-09