5 things that come to mind when we hear Virender Sehwag's name

#3 Reaching milestones with a six

The Indian opener often reached personal milestones with big hits

In the previous slide, we had a look at Sehwag’s affinity towards scoring a first ball boundary. He is also famous for something which other batsmen won’t even think of doing in their dreams.

A batsman is generally under enormous pressure when he is close to reaching a milestone (50, 100, 150, 200 etc.) and often he will look to reach the milestone safely without taking any risks.

There are regular batsmen and then, there is Virender Sehwag, who likes to get to these milestones in style ie. by hitting a six. It doesn’t matter what his score is, he will just look to get the pressure off him by smashing the ball out of the park. When he scored both his triple centuries, he scored a six when he was in the 290s and reached the milestone with ease.

Since his retirement, it has become a complete rarity to see batsmen attempt such feats.