First Things First ....

Virender Sehwag has a habit of doing damage - and doing it early. Quite famously, he averages 67.70 in the first innings (as compared to 51.73 overall and 24.22 in the second innings). More shockingly, note that prior to this Test 2099 of his 2535 Test runs have come in the first innings - that makes a whopping 82.8% - vow I'd like to know if there is any one with a more extreme number than that !!!

But more importantly as I read somewhere on Wisden Cricinfo (I can't find it now) he has scored 937 runs at 93.7 in the first innings of a series !!!! His scores in the first innings of a series have been:

105 v SA at Bloomfontein (Series Lost 1-0)
Was banned for the first Test against England at home and dropped for the first Test against Zimbabwe at home
84 v Eng at Lord's (Series Drawn 1-1)
147 v WI at Mumbai (Series Won 2-0)
2 v NZ at Wellington (Series Lost 2-0)
29 v NZ at Ahmedabad (Series Drawn 0-0)
45 v Aus at Brisbane (Series Drawn 1-1)
309 v Pak at Multan (Series Won 2-1)
39 v Aus at Bangalore (Series Lost 2-1)
164 v SA at Kanpur (Series Won 1-0)
13 v Ban at Dhaka (Series Won 2-0)

Whenever he has scored a hundred India has gone on to win the series (except the first one). So let's hope he goes on to make a big one tomorrow.