On This Day in 2004: 20 years ago, Virender Sehwag had become a legend for Pak bowlers, had created this big history.
Virender Sehwag became the first Indian batsman to score a triple century in the history of Test cricket. Virender Sehwag (Photo Source: Getty Images) Virender Sehwag’s Triple Century Against Pakistan in 2004: Former Indian player Virender Sehwag had scored a historic triple century in Pakistan 20 years ago on 29 March 2004. Today is a very special day for Indian cricket and its fans. Virender Sehwag created this history on the second day of the first match of the Test series against Pakistan. That test match played between India and Pakistan in Multan is remembered for the amazing batting of Virender Sehwag. Virender Sehwag also became the first Indian batsman to score a triple century in the history of Test cricket. Virender Sehwag had left Gavaskar, VVS Laxman and Tendulkar behind. In the first match of the three-match Test series against Pakistan, Rahul Dravid took over the captaincy in place of Sourav Ganguly. Rahul Dravid had decided to bat first after winning the toss against Pakistan. India had scored 356 runs at the loss of 2 wickets on the first day. Virender Sehwag was unbeaten on 228 runs. Everyone expected that Virender Sehwag would make his innings even bigger, and that is exactly what happened. Virender Sehwag had completed a triple century by hitting a six on the ball of Saqlain Mushtaq on the second day. Virender Sehwag had left behind Sunil Gavaskar (236), Sachin Tendulkar (241*) and VVS Laxman (281). Virender Sehwag batted in the field for 531 minutes Virender Sehwag had played an innings of 309 runs against Pakistan with the help of 39 fours and 6 sixes in 375 balls. Virender Sehwag batted in the field for 531 minutes. Rahul Dravid then declared India’s first innings at 675-5. Sachin Tendulkar was not out on 194*. This decision of Rahul Dravid also attracted a lot of discussion. The Indian team had won that match by one inning and 52 runs. Scored second triple century in Test against South Africa Virender Sehwag broke his own record by scoring 319 runs against South Africa on 29 March 2008. Sehwag became the batsman who played the biggest innings for India in Tests. Virender Sehwag is included in this special list along with Sir Don Bradman. After scoring triple centuries twice in Test cricket for India, Virender Sehwag is included in the elite triple century club along with Sir Don Bradman and Brian Lara. Virender Sehwag has scored 8,586 runs in 104 matches at an average of 49.34 in his Test career. Which includes 23 centuries, 6 double centuries, 2 triple centuries and 32 half-centuries.
NZ vs PAK: Kane Williamson retired from the second T20 match due to hamstring injury, but still the team won the match
In the second T20 match, New Zealand won by 21 runs. Kane Williamson (Image Credit- Twitter X) NZ vs PAK 2nd T20: The second match of the ongoing five-match T20 series between New Zealand and Pakistan was played today, Sunday, January 14, at Seddon Park in Hamilton. Let us tell you that in this match, there was a bad news for New Zealand, who had to bat after losing the toss, but still the team has won. Let us tell you that during the first innings of the match, Kane Williamson, who came to bat at number three, had a hamstring problem in his right leg. Kane’s injury was so serious that he had to retire hurt and go out of the field. He went out of the field after scoring 26 runs and after this Tim Southee took the responsibility of stand in captain. Kane Williamson retired hurt while batting in the second T20I versus Pakistan in Hamilton. — CricTracker (@Cricketracker) January 14, 2024 New Zealand vs Pakistan, status of 2nd T20 match: So, if we tell you the condition of this match, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bowl and New Zealand, batting first, scored 194 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. For the Kiwi team, Finn Allen played a brilliant inning of 74 runs, while captain Kane Williamson contributed 26 runs. Also, David Conway scored 20 runs and Daryl Mitchell scored 17 runs. Apart from this, Mitchell Santner was out after scoring 25 runs. On the other hand, if we talk about Pakistan’s bowling, Haris Rauf got 3 wickets and Abbas Afridi got 2 wickets. Apart from this, Aamer Jamal and Usama Mir got 1-1 wicket. So after this, when Pakistan came to chase the target of 195 runs given by New Zealand, it could score only 173 runs and lost the match by 21 runs. For Pakistan, only Babar Azam could score 66 runs and Fakhar Zaman could play big innings of 50 runs. On the other hand, if we talk about New Zealand’s bowling, Adam Mill got 4 wickets, while Tim Southee, Ben Seers and Ish Sodhi got 2 wickets each. With this victory, the Kiwi team has taken a 2-0 lead in the five-match T20 series. Also read- AUS vs WI 2024: ‘I don’t want to think negative thoughts at all’ Steve Smith before opening against West Indies 5 players who have taken the most catches in T20i cricket 4 players who have bowled the most dot balls in cricket (all-format and active players) 5 Indian batsmen who have scored the most runs in their career in first class cricket Top 5 batsmen who scored double century in first class cricket IND vs AFG: Captain Rohit Sharma will give chance to these 11 players, see playing XI Not only Hardik Pandya, Mumbai Indians have also traded these players 5 batsmen who have scored more than 3 thousand runs in T20 International matches Top 10 batsmen who hit most sixes in IPL history IPL 2024: Gujarat Titans’ playing XI…