"To be great is to be misunderstood," Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, and how we have misunderstood Virender Sehwag. At first we thought he was a one-day utility player; then a good one-day slogger but surely not a Test player; then a Test batsman capable of the occasional belligerent innings, like Krisnamachari Srikkanth, but no more; then an opener as good perhaps as Michael Slater or Herschelle Gibbs, but not in the same class as his team-mates like the Tendulkar-Dravid-Laxman trio. We were mistaken each time.
I can never tire of recounting all the records this man is putting up - also of describing how much he means to this Indian batting lineup. However, I'll leave that to the stats men for now. I'll just go on to say that he is well on his way to achieve the greatness of 3 of his teammates - Dravid, Tendulkar and Laxman - probably caught up with Laxman already - but then can that 281 ever be compared ??
Just a week ago Ram here wondered whether Sehwag had been sorted out. Moreover he went on to assert that Sehwag "would fail" in the rest of the series (after Mohali). I hope he has got his answer. How can people even think of "predicting" that someome will fail especially when it comes to a genius like Sehwag ?? I hope the critics are silenced now.
And to think that till today there exist some souls in this World who have the temerity to compare him to Afridi !!! Comparing Sehwag to Afridi is like comparing Aamir Khan to Govinda !!
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