Enjoy the most famous and biggest sixes from Virender Sehwag’s bazooka of a bat, that incredible weapon that had blasted across the cricket centres of the world in scintillatingly audacious arcs. New Zealand vs India 2019. In Test match cricket or ODIs or T20s Sehwag was India's most destructive batsman. India vs Australia, India vs New Zealand and India vs Pakistan.
After Viv Richards, Veeru was the most destructive batsman this planet has seen.
The Nawab of Najafgarh, the Sultan of Multan and many more names proudly descended on Veeru. A sheer joy to watch whether it was his 309 at Multan or 195 in Melbourne or 319 vs South Africa. A self confessed prodigy of Sachin Tendulkar, Sehwag used to emulate Sachin's style of batting early in his career.
If you want to learn how to live in the moment, you don’t need to take yoga lessons or visit a monastery or study ancient Buddhist texts. All you need to do is watch Virender Sehwag bat.
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With other batsmen, there is a sense of continuity, a sense that what happens with this delivery is predicated on what happened to the previous one and what might happen to the next one. With Sehwag, there was only this ball, this moment. If it was a bad delivery, it would be punished. If it was a good delivery, it might still be punished. If it was a really good delivery, then he might show it some respect.
And then it was on to the next ball. The previous one might have been hit for four or six, or been defended, or nicked through the slips. It didn’t matter. He might have been batting on 5 or 95 or 195. It didn’t matter. The game might be in the balance. It didn’t matter. The only thing that mattered was the current moment.
Traditionally Test cricket used to have a standard rate of scoring. Sehwag walked in and blasted it past the boundaries of imagination. When he got going - which in his heyday was spectacularly often - he scored at the speed of thought, sometimes even faster.