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He was the guy who was so hard to bowl to – Brett Lee on Virender Sehwag

Former Australian gun fast bowler Brett Lee showered praise on Virender Sehwag. Lee shared his experience of bowling to Virender Sehwag, who was known to play his attacking game irrespective of the opposition and conditions.

Lee admitted that Virender Sehwag was one of the toughest batters he bowled to in his career because of the batsman’s unpredictability. Sehwag was known to attack when the ball was in his arc and it didn’t matter to him if it was the first ball of the Test mach.

The former Indian opener had a glorious career in Test cricket as he tore apart the opposition’s bowling attacks with his aggressive style of batting. Sehwag used to open the innings and he never allowed the opposition bowlers to settle in.

Lee said that Sehwag played like Sachin Tendulkar and the duo was a nightmare for the opposition.

“The guy that looked a little bit like Sachin Tendulkar when he was batting. And I thought ‘here we go again. Another Sachin Tendulkar. If one wasn’t enough, we’ve got another one and he is opening the batting’. We in the Australian team had a ploy for Sehwag and even start the Test match with a third man, trying to suck him in to hit one down there. We tried that in an ODI match one day, and he whacked it… absolutely nailed it out of the ground,” Lee said on his YouTube channel.

“You think of the word cruel. You think of the word swashbuckling. Think of the world as unpredictable, I think of none other than Virender Sehwag. He played with a smile on his face, with intent… the type of guy that would quite likely want to hit the first ball of a Test match for six… and he has done it. He is a guy that is so hard to bowl to because as I mentioned, of the unpredictability,” Lee added.

Virender Sehwag is well known as one of the biggest entertainers in the game and always kept the fans on the edge of their seats with his style of batting. The former Indian opener amassed 8586 runs in 104 Test matches at an average of 49.34 and a strike rate of 82.23. Thus, he played a key role in revolutionizing India’s Test team.

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