Virender Sehwag, with his first innings 59 at Mohali against Australia, equaled a world record.
Vivian Richards, Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag now sit together upon a rather unassuming world record, that of scoring at least a fifty in 11 consecutive Tests matches.
Sehwag's run started about a year ago in November 2009 against Sri Lanka, and since then not a single Test has passed without him scoring a 50 or more in an innings. His run looks like this:
51 -- 131 -- 293 -- 52+45 -- 56+0 -- 109+16 -- 165 -- 109+31 -- 99 -- 109+0 -- 59+17.
That converts to 1342 runs at 83 per innings, at a strike rate of 94! May have gone in as one of the reasons for him being chosen Test cricketer of the year at the ICC 2010 awards today.
I touched on Gambhir's record in one of my past posts on this very record. (Past lookup--> http://a-test-of-balls.blogspot.com/2010/01/run-gautam-run.html#links )
I hope I do not jinx Sehwag with this post, and he goes on to break this record in the Bangalore Test coming up. But then JINX himself steers clear of cavaliers like Sehwag who simply do not care :)
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