India vs Sri Lanka 3rd test 3rd day news 2009

INDIA, Mumbai : Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag gestures after his dismissal during play on the third day of the third Test match between India and Sri Lanka in Mumbai on December 4, 2009.Though Sehwag could not complete his triple century and gave his wicket to Muralitharan, he still managed 293 runs, just hundred runs short of what the whole Sri Lankan side scored.

Sehwag on his way to 293 runs smashed not only fours and sixes, but also scored fastest 250 runs in the history of test cricket.

He always plays cricket in his own style and dictates terms to the opposition bowlers.

Fastest 250 in Test cricket in terms of balls faced.

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Most Test runs in a single day by an Indian. Sehwag made 257 in a day against SA in Chennai. He surpassed this in making 284 in a day against Sri Lanka. The latter was the second consecutive innings in which India scored more than 400 runs in a single day in Tests. Sehwag also made a century at faster than a run a ball on the previous equation.

Only Indian batsman to have scored two triple centuries in Test cricket. He is the third batsman in the history of Test cricket to score two triple centuries, alongside Sir Donald Bradman and Brian Lara.

Fastest century in ODI cricket by an Indian - 100 runs off 60 balls against New Zealand in 2009.
Second fastest ODI 50 by an Indian.[94] - a record, he shares with Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev and Yuvraj Singh - when he took 22 balls against Kenya in 2001[95]
Six double centuries - the first three of which came against Pakistan.[96] Greg Chappell is the only other player to have scored multiple double centuries against Pakistan (2). Sehwag is the only Indian to have made six Test double centuries.
Highest score by an Indian batsman in Test cricket. He first achieved this when he scored 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004, and bettered his previous record in March 2008 at Chennai against South Africa by scoring 319.

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