"I hereby retire from all forms of international cricket and from the Indian Premier League. A statement will follow," Sehwag said on Twitter
Earlier, a day before his 37th birthday, Virender Sehwag confirmed his participation in next year's Masters Champions League 2020, where only retired cricketers can play.
Virender Sehwag has been a part of two World Cup winning teams under Mahendra Singh Dhoni's leadership --- 2007 World T20 in South Africa and the ICC Cricket World Cup in India.
Virender Sehwag played 104 Tests, 251 ODIs and 19 T20Is, scoring over 17000 international runs and picking up 136 wickets with his offspin. His greatest moments came in Test cricket, where he made 23 hundreds including the only two triple-centuries by any Indian batsman, while his ODI achievements included the format's second double-hundred. He was part of India's victorious squads in the 2007 World T20 and the 2011 World Cup.
Virender Sehwag's career in numbers:
In ODIs: Sehwag played 251 ODIs and scored 8273 at an average of 35.05.
In Tests: Viru played 104 Tests and scored 8586 runs at an average of 49.34.
In T20Is: In the shortest format of the game, Sehwag played 19 matches and scored 394 runs.
Test Match Career
In a glorious international career spanning over 12 years,Virender Sehwag played 104 Tests scoring 8586 runs at an impressive average of 49.34, hitting 23 centuries and 32 half-centuries
Virender Sehwag is the only Indian Cricketer to have scored triple century in Tests having scored career-best knock of 319 against Pakistan at Multan, which also is an Indian record. He is also one of those rare batsmen to have scored two triple ton with his next one (309) coming against South Africa.
ODI Career
In 251 ODIs, Virender Sehwag accumulated 8273 runs at an average of 35.05 and scored 15 hundreds apart from hitting 38 fifties.
T20 Career
In 19 Twenty20 Internationals, he managed 394 runs with two half-centuries
Virender Sehwag(DOB October 20,1978)
- ODI Debut Vs Pakistan in April 1999
- Test Debut Vs South Africa in November 2001 - scored 105 on debut despite the South African win
- Last ODI played Vs Pakistan in January 2013
- Last Test Match played Vs Australia in March 2013
Runs - 8586 Runs -8273
Tons -23 Tons -15
50's -32 50's -38
Average -49.34 Average -35.05
Top score -319 Topscore - 219
Virender Sehwag was promoted as opener on the tour to England in 2002. He scored 84 in the new role at the mecca of cricket - Lord's and then a century in the second Test at the Trent Bridge
- is one of only two players in the world to score a double hundred in ODI and a triple hundred in Test Cricket, the other being Chris Gayle
- highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket (319 Vs South Africa in Chennai which was also the fastest triple ton in the history of international cricket (reached 300 off only 278 balls)
- Out of Virenders Sehwag's 23 hundreds - 14 have been above 150, 6 of them double-centuries.
- Virenders Sehwag's strike-rate of 82.45 is the best (the qualification being a cut-off of 2000 runs) in the history of Test cricket
- Virender Sehwag become the 9th Indian cricketer to play 100 Test matches.
- Virender Sehwag is the only Indian batsman to score a Test triple-century. Not just once, but twice - 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004 and 319 against South Africa in Chennai in 2008
- Virender Sehwag is one among the 4 batsmen to score in excess of 300 twice (Bradman, Brian Lara and Chris Gayle being the others)
- has scored fastest 250 by any batsman (in 207 balls Vs Sri Lanka in Mumbai in December 2009
- In December 2011 Virender Sehwag scored 219 in 149 deliveries Vs West Indies in Indore and holds the record of 2nd highest individual score in ODI's
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