Virender Sehwag

Full name
Virender Sehwag
Born
20 October 1978 (1978-10-20) (age 31)Delhi, India
Nickname
Viru, Nawab of Nagafgrah

Height
5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Batting style
Right-handed
Bowling style
Right arm off Break

Role
Opening batsman, occasional off spinner
National side
India
Test debut

3 November 2001 v South Africa

ODI debut

1 April 1999 v Pakistan

Sehwag was born in a Jat family from Haryana.The son of a grain merchant, Sehwag spent his childhood in a bungalow in a joint family, with siblings, uncles, aunts and sixteen cousins. Though now settled in New Delhi, the Sehwag family hails from Haryana. Sehwag was the third of four children born to father Krishan and mother Krishna Sehwag, with two older sisters Manju and Anju, and younger brother Vinod. His father attributes his interest in cricket to a toy bat which he was given when he was seven months old. He attended Arora Vidya School in Delhi, and pestered his parents to let him play cricket, on the basis that he was not academically gifted.His father tried to end his career when he broke a tooth as a child in 1990, but Sehwag evaded the ban with the help of his mother.

ARJUNA AWARD(2002)

Wisdon Leading Cricketer in the world 2008, 2009