Top 5 differences of average between first and second innings in Tests

#2. Virender Sehwag- 32.25

Sehwag has scored only a century in the second innings throughout his Test career

One of the most destructive batsmen in cricket history, Virender Sehwag has a huge difference in the averages of his first and innings. Viru has scored nearly 3/4th of his 8586 Test runs in the first innings.

Sehwag scored 6438 runs from 104 innings at an average of 62.50 in the first innings. In the second innings, Sehwag has scored only 2148 runs from 76 innings at an average of just 30.25.

Sehwag has scored 22 of his 23 Test centuries in the first innings including both his triple centuries against Pakistan in 2004 and against South Africa in 2008. In the second innings, Sehwag only has 14 fifties and a hundred. His only hundred in the second innings came against Australia at Adelaide in 2008 where he went on to make 151.