When Virender Sehwag missed triple century world record: Following Rahul Dravid’s advice, Virender Sehwag missed the world record of triple century.

New Delhi. Indian cricket team’s explosive opener Virender Sehwag holds the record for scoring the first triple century in Tests for India. He scored two triple centuries in this format and was close to achieving this feat for the third time. No batsman in the world has been able to do this till date. Due to Rahul Dravid’s advice, Sehwag played slowly in the last session on the second day and returned unbeaten after scoring 284 runs. On the third day, he was out after scoring 9 more runs. After this he abused Dravid a lot in his mind. Sehwag himself had revealed this during a show.

Sehwag had such a charm that he used to hit fours and sixes to the bowlers while singing songs. Even legendary fast bowlers like Shoaib Akhtar, Brett Lee and Dale Steyn could not escape his aggression, because Sehwag used to send even the slightest loose ball from the biggest bowlers across the boundary. Sehwag scored a century in his Test debut, initially he was not an opener, but his explosive batting got him this role. He opened for India along with Sachin Tendulkar in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and started the tournament by scoring a brilliant 175 runs in the very first match.

Which world record was Sehwag going to make?

Sehwag shares the record of most triple centuries in Test cricket and was close to creating history. In a test match against Sri Lanka in Mumbai, he had a chance to become the first batsman to score three triple centuries. On the second day of this match, Sehwag scored 284 runs, which is the third highest score by a batsman in a single day of a Test match. He batted fiercely against a legendary bowler like Muttiah Muralitharan. At the end of the day, when only 3-4 overs were left, his fellow batsman Rahul Dravid advised him to finish the day’s play and come the next day and complete a triple century.

What advice did Dravid give to Sehwag

Virender Sehwag had told in an interview that Rahul Dravid had told him to play the remaining overs without losing any wicket and come the next day you can score 300, 400 or even 500 runs. After this conversation, Dravid took a single only after the end of the over so that Sehwag had to play less balls. At the end of the day, both the batsmen remained not out and returned to the dressing room, then Dravid said to Sehwag, ‘Well done, very good. Now see tomorrow, if you come back and bat the whole day, then you can make a world record.

Sehwag admitted that Dravid’s words gave him hope, he went to his room, had food and slept comfortably. But the next day he could add only 9 more runs and was out on 293 runs. He later admitted that when he was returning to the dressing room, he regretted following Dravid’s advice. Sehwag scored 293 runs in 254 balls, which included 40 fours and 7 sixes. In the end, Muralitharan, the world’s highest wicket-taker bowler, caught and bowled Sehwag out. In that match, MS Dhoni also scored a century and India declared the innings by scoring a huge score of 726/9. India won this match by an innings and 24 runs.