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Virender Sehwag stats

Data through 4 January 2016Last updated 4 January 2016

Coverage: matches in the Cricsheet data from 19 December 2001 to 4 January 2016. Older matches, and matches against Afghanistan, are not included, so totals can be lower than official career figures.

Between 2001 and 2016, Virender Sehwag appears in 76 Tests, 169 ODIs, 17 T20Is for India in the Cricsheet data. In Tests Virender Sehwag scored 5,969 runs in 134 innings (average 46.27, strike rate 85.1), including 15 hundreds and 26 fifties. Virender Sehwag took 54 ODI wickets in the data (average 37.72, economy 5.06, best 4/6). Against Sri Lanka in Tests, Virender Sehwag averaged 75.19 over 17 innings.

International matches

262

Tests 76 · ODIs 169 · T20Is 17

International runs

12,118

25 hundreds

International wickets

1 five-wicket hauls

T20 league & domestic matches

106

2,732 runs

Best batting average (Test)

46.27

134 innings

Highest score

319

Test

Teams played for

India 2001–2013 · 254Delhi Capitals 2008–2013 · 79Punjab Kings 2014–2015 · 25Asia XI 2005–2007 · 5ICC World XI 2005 · 3Haryana 2016 · 2

BattingBowling

Virender Sehwag batting record by format

Batting by format
Format	M	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
Test	76	134	5	5,969	319	46.27	7,017	85.1	15	26	13	841	63
ODI	169	165	2	5,763	219	35.36	5,442	105.9	10	27	7	768	107
T20I	17	17	0	386	68	22.71	261	147.9	0	2	1	42	16
T20 (leagues & domestic)	106	106	5	2,732	122	27.05	1,764	154.9	2	16	7	334	106

Runs per year

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Virender Sehwag: runs per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Runs
2001	66
2002	179
2003	723
2004	1,036
2005	659
2006	1,125
2007	657
2008	2,747
2009	1,780
2010	2,224
2011	1,453
2012	1,290
2013	353
2014	455
2015	99
2016	4

Year-by-year batting (38 rows)

Batting by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
2001	Test	1	66	66.00	75.0	66	0	1
2002	ODI	2	179	89.50	97.3	108	1	1
2003	ODI	20	547	27.35	84.4	130	1	2
2003	Test	4	176	44.00	62.0	130	1	0
2004	ODI	18	462	25.67	86.5	90	0	3
2004	Test	11	574	57.40	71.4	164	2	2
2005	ODI	19	512	26.95	107.1	75	0	2
2005	Test	5	147	29.40	82.1	76	0	1
2006	ODI	21	560	26.67	87.1	97	0	5
2006	T20I	1	34	34.00	117.2	34	0	0
2006	Test	18	531	31.24	81.3	180	1	2
2007	ODI	14	475	33.93	107.2	114	1	1
2007	T20I	6	138	23.00	138.0	68	0	1
2007	Test	2	44	22.00	83.0	40	0	0
2008	ODI	17	879	51.71	121.1	119	1	8
2008	T20 (leagues & domestic)	14	406	33.83	184.5	94	0	3
2008	T20I	1	0	0.00	0.0	0	0	0
2008	Test	27	1462	56.23	85.8	319	3	6
2009	ODI	19	810	45.00	136.6	146	3	2
2009	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	198	19.80	143.5	50	0	1
2009	T20I	5	141	28.20	195.8	64	0	1
2009	Test	9	631	70.11	109.0	293	2	1
2010	ODI	12	446	40.55	108.8	110	1	1
2010	T20 (leagues & domestic)	14	356	25.43	163.3	75	0	3
2010	Test	25	1422	61.83	90.8	173	5	8
2011	ODI	12	645	53.75	123.1	219	2	1
2011	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	424	38.55	176.7	119	1	2
2011	Test	13	384	29.54	80.2	67	0	4
2012	ODI	10	217	21.70	100.5	96	0	1
2012	T20 (leagues & domestic)	16	495	33.00	161.2	87	0	5
2012	T20I	4	73	18.25	128.1	29	0	0
2012	Test	16	505	31.56	87.7	117	1	1
2013	ODI	1	31	31.00	72.1	31	0	0
2013	T20 (leagues & domestic)	13	295	24.58	126.6	95	0	1
2013	Test	3	27	9.00	50.9	19	0	0
2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	17	455	26.76	144.4	122	1	1
2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	8	99	12.38	117.9	47	0	0
2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	2	4	2.00	44.4	3	0	0

Virender Sehwag bowling record by format

Bowling by format
Format	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	4w	5w	Mdns
Test	66	3,233	1,589	37	5/104	5/118	42.95	2.95	87.4	1	1	66
ODI	86	2,417	2,037	54	4/6	–	37.72	5.06	44.8	1	0	9
T20I	1	6	20	0	–	–	–	20.00	–	0	0	0
T20 (leagues & domestic)	15	136	235	6	2/18	–	39.17	10.37	22.7	0	0	0

Wickets per year

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Virender Sehwag: wickets per calendar year (all formats in the data)
Year	Wickets
2001	0
2002	0
2003	4
2004	12
2005	10
2006	13
2007	6
2008	26
2009	5
2010	16
2011	0
2012	5
2013	0
2014	0
2015	0
2016	0

Year-by-year bowling (26 rows)

Bowling by calendar year and format
Year	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
2001	Test	1	0	–	1.00	0/1
2003	ODI	9	4	38.00	4.61	2/36
2003	Test	2	0	–	4.10	0/21
2004	ODI	14	12	36.58	4.88	3/37
2004	Test	3	0	–	4.60	0/5
2005	ODI	12	10	26.30	5.60	3/44
2005	Test	2	0	–	3.88	0/13
2006	ODI	11	3	77.33	4.46	1/22
2006	Test	9	10	23.20	2.47	3/33
2007	ODI	8	5	41.80	5.36	2/17
2007	T20I	1	0	–	20.00	0/20
2007	Test	2	1	39.00	3.00	1/31
2008	ODI	11	8	37.75	5.49	3/28
2008	T20 (leagues & domestic)	7	3	44.33	12.09	1/2
2008	Test	18	15	31.67	2.75	5/104
2009	ODI	7	4	41.75	5.06	2/43
2009	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	0	–	25.00	0/25
2009	Test	6	1	163.00	4.29	1/4
2010	ODI	8	4	34.00	5.07	4/6
2010	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	3	7.67	4.06	2/18
2010	Test	13	9	36.78	2.85	3/51
2011	Test	5	0	–	3.10	0/3
2012	ODI	6	4	34.25	5.07	3/43
2012	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	0	–	11.25	0/9
2012	Test	5	1	155.00	3.14	1/20
2013	T20 (leagues & domestic)	1	0	–	9.00	0/9

Virender Sehwag against each team

vs Australia vs Sri Lanka vs England vs South Africa vs New Zealand vs Pakistan vs West Indies vs Bangladesh

Batting against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS	100	50
Australia	Test	37	1402	38.94	75.4	155	2	9
Sri Lanka	Test	17	1203	75.19	99.2	293	5	3
South Africa	Test	23	1157	50.30	83.7	319	4	2
New Zealand	Test	15	797	56.93	85.0	173	2	3
West Indies	Test	12	602	50.17	90.9	180	1	4
England	Test	20	558	29.37	83.5	117	1	3
Bangladesh	Test	5	166	41.50	86.5	56	0	2
Pakistan	Test	4	40	10.00	75.5	31	0	0
Sri Lanka	ODI	37	1383	38.42	112.5	146	2	5
New Zealand	ODI	16	852	56.80	108.4	130	4	3
Pakistan	ODI	25	827	33.08	101.5	119	1	4
Australia	ODI	25	521	20.84	90.1	82	0	2
West Indies	ODI	12	509	42.42	108.8	219	1	2
England	ODI	16	509	31.81	100.4	91	0	5
Bangladesh	ODI	8	381	47.62	127.4	175	1	2
South Africa	ODI	9	193	21.44	94.6	73	0	1
Zimbabwe	ODI	3	138	46.00	90.2	90	0	1
Africa XI	ODI	5	131	26.20	110.1	52	0	1
Kenya	ODI	3	53	17.67	58.2	33	0	0
Sri Lanka	T20I	3	91	30.33	178.4	64	0	1
New Zealand	T20I	3	90	30.00	236.8	40	0	0
South Africa	T20I	3	62	20.67	114.8	34	0	0
Australia	T20I	5	41	8.20	105.1	23	0	0
Mumbai Indians	T20 (leagues & domestic)	14	431	33.15	156.2	95	0	3
Chennai Super Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	14	405	28.93	164.0	122	1	2
Deccan Chargers	T20 (leagues & domestic)	11	317	31.70	178.1	119	1	1
Rajasthan Royals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	15	316	21.07	158.8	75	0	3
Kolkata Knight Riders	T20 (leagues & domestic)	13	305	23.46	142.5	72	0	2
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	T20 (leagues & domestic)	12	255	21.25	147.4	47	0	0
Punjab Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	10	250	31.25	166.7	77	0	2
Pune Warriors	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	220	55.00	158.3	87	0	2
Delhi Capitals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	80	20.00	111.1	47	0	0
Sunrisers Hyderabad	T20 (leagues & domestic)	4	54	13.50	105.9	30	0	0

Bowling against each opponent (3+ innings)
Opponent	Format	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ	Best
Australia	Test	20	10	53.10	2.88	5/104
South Africa	Test	9	9	27.00	2.66	3/12
West Indies	Test	10	9	33.11	2.52	3/33
Sri Lanka	Test	12	8	36.12	3.32	3/51
England	Test	5	0	–	4.60	0/1
New Zealand	Test	6	0	–	4.89	0/4
Sri Lanka	ODI	24	13	44.62	5.04	3/37
Australia	ODI	16	9	43.67	5.23	3/43
Bangladesh	ODI	6	7	21.43	4.86	4/6
England	ODI	7	6	33.50	5.43	3/28
West Indies	ODI	4	4	28.75	4.26	2/39
New Zealand	ODI	3	4	16.00	4.27	3/44
Pakistan	ODI	13	3	88.00	6.44	1/4
South Africa	ODI	4	2	44.50	4.94	1/22
Chennai Super Kings	T20 (leagues & domestic)	5	3	33.00	9.90	2/18
Rajasthan Royals	T20 (leagues & domestic)	3	2	19.00	8.14	1/2

Top grounds (batting)

Most runs by ground
Ground	Inns	Runs	Avg	HS
Arun Jaitley Stadium	41	1138	29.18	95
MA Chidambaram Stadium	17	775	48.44	319
Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium	22	756	36.00	130
Shere Bangla National Stadium	11	534	53.40	175
Narendra Modi Stadium	15	534	35.60	173
M Chinnaswamy Stadium	17	510	30.00	69
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	11	501	45.55	109
Eden Gardens	12	500	41.67	165
Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium	11	471	52.33	119
Green Park	6	398	66.33	164

Top grounds (bowling)

Most wickets by ground
Ground	Inns	Wkts	Avg	Econ
R Premadasa Stadium	8	8	28.50	4.38
Green Park	5	6	7.00	2.02
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium	6	6	17.83	5.14
MA Chidambaram Stadium	10	6	38.67	4.22
Arun Jaitley Stadium	11	6	38.83	4.26
Harare Sports Club	2	4	14.50	4.46
P Sara Oval	2	4	14.75	2.95
Antigua Recreation Ground, Antigua	2	4	17.75	3.09
Daren Sammy Cricket Ground	2	4	20.25	1.75
Sydney Cricket Ground	5	4	46.50	4.12

Batting and bowling by phase (limited overs)

T20 phases: overs 1–6, 7–15, 16–20. ODI phases: overs 1–10, 11–40, 41–50.
Format	Phase	Runs	Balls	SR	Outs	Bowl balls	Wkts	Econ
T20	Powerplay	1864	1302	143.2	75	12	0	23.50
T20	Middle	1181	688	171.7	39	108	4	8.78
T20	Death	73	35	208.6	4	22	2	13.64
ODI	Powerplay	3202	3247	98.6	97	12	0	8.50
ODI	Middle	2466	2144	115.0	63	1973	37	4.98
ODI	Death	95	51	186.3	3	432	17	5.32

How Virender Sehwag was dismissed

Caught267 (65%)
Bowled68 (17%)
Lbw31 (8%)
Run out28 (7%)
Caught and bowled12 (3%)
Stumped4 (1%)

How Virender Sehwag took wickets

Caught46
Bowled24
Lbw13
Stumped8
Caught and bowled6

Last 20 innings

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Virender Sehwag: runs in the last 20 innings
Innings	Runs
9 May 2014	30
11 May 2014	72
14 May 2014	4
19 May 2014	23
21 May 2014	17
23 May 2014	18
25 May 2014	9
27 May 2014	2
30 May 2014	122
1 Jun 2014	7
10 Apr 2015	0
12 Apr 2015	36
15 Apr 2015	47
18 Apr 2015	11
21 Apr 2015	1
25 Apr 2015	1
1 May 2015	1
3 May 2015	2
2 Jan 2016	3
4 Jan 2016	1

Most recent batting innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Score	Balls	How out	Ground
4 Jan 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Vidarbha	1	4	lbw	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium
2 Jan 2016	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Tamil Nadu	3	5	caught	VCA Ground
3 May 2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Mumbai Indians	2	5	caught	Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium
1 May 2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Delhi Capitals	1	2	caught	Arun Jaitley Stadium
25 Apr 2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Chennai Super Kings	1	2	caught	MA Chidambaram Stadium
21 Apr 2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Rajasthan Royals	1	4	run out	Narendra Modi Stadium
18 Apr 2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Kolkata Knight Riders	11	10	caught	Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium
15 Apr 2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Delhi Capitals	47	41	caught	Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium
12 Apr 2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Mumbai Indians	36	19	caught	Wankhede Stadium
10 Apr 2015	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Rajasthan Royals	0	1	caught	Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium
1 Jun 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Kolkata Knight Riders	7	10	caught	M Chinnaswamy Stadium
30 May 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Chennai Super Kings	122	58	caught	Wankhede Stadium
27 May 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Kolkata Knight Riders	2	3	caught	Eden Gardens
25 May 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Delhi Capitals	9	7	caught	Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium
23 May 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Rajasthan Royals	18	8	caught	Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium
21 May 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Mumbai Indians	17	11	run out	Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium
19 May 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Delhi Capitals	23	22	caught	Arun Jaitley Stadium
14 May 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Sunrisers Hyderabad	4	2	caught and bowled	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium
11 May 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Kolkata Knight Riders	72	50	bowled	Barabati Stadium
9 May 2014	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	30	24	caught	M Chinnaswamy Stadium

Last 20 bowling innings

Most recent bowling innings in the data
Date	Format	Against	Figures	Overs	Mdns	Ground
18 Apr 2013	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Chennai Super Kings	0/9	1	0	Arun Jaitley Stadium
15 Nov 2012	Test	England	0/1	1	0	Narendra Modi Stadium
23 Aug 2012	Test	New Zealand	0/4	2	0	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium
31 Jul 2012	ODI	Sri Lanka	1/38	8	1	R Premadasa Stadium
28 Jul 2012	ODI	Sri Lanka	0/3	1	0	R Premadasa Stadium
21 Jul 2012	ODI	Sri Lanka	0/20	4	0	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium
25 May 2012	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Chennai Super Kings	0/21	1	0	MA Chidambaram Stadium
1 May 2012	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Rajasthan Royals	0/15	2	0	Sawai Mansingh Stadium
21 Apr 2012	T20 (leagues & domestic)	Pune Warriors	0/9	1	0	Arun Jaitley Stadium
28 Feb 2012	ODI	Sri Lanka	0/24	3	0	Bellerive Oval
26 Feb 2012	ODI	Australia	3/43	9	0	Sydney Cricket Ground
21 Feb 2012	ODI	Sri Lanka	0/9	2	0	The Gabba
24 Jan 2012	Test	Australia	0/55	16	0	Adelaide Oval
13 Jan 2012	Test	Australia	1/20	7.2	0	Western Australia Cricket Association Ground
3 Jan 2012	Test	Australia	0/75	23	1	Sydney Cricket Ground
26 Dec 2011	Test	Australia	0/7	2	0	Melbourne Cricket Ground
22 Nov 2011	Test	West Indies	0/3	2	0	Wankhede Stadium
22 Nov 2011	Test	West Indies	0/61	16	1	Wankhede Stadium
14 Nov 2011	Test	West Indies	0/20	9	2	Eden Gardens
6 Nov 2011	Test	West Indies	0/5	2	0	Arun Jaitley Stadium

Batter vs bowler matchups

Bowlers Virender Sehwag faced most

Batters Virender Sehwag bowled to most

Kumar Sangakkara vs Virender Sehwag305 balls
Michael Clarke vs Virender Sehwag275 balls
Ricky Ponting vs Virender Sehwag260 balls
Michael Hussey vs Virender Sehwag256 balls

Frequently asked questions

How many runs has Virender Sehwag scored in Tests?

5,969 runs in 134 innings (76 matches) at an average of 46.27 and a strike rate of 85.1, in the data from 2001 to 2013.

How many runs has Virender Sehwag scored in ODIs?

5,763 runs in 165 innings (169 matches) at an average of 35.36 and a strike rate of 105.9, in the data from 2002 to 2013.

How many runs has Virender Sehwag scored in T20Is?

386 runs in 17 innings (17 matches) at an average of 22.71 and a strike rate of 147.9, in the data from 2006 to 2012.

What is Virender Sehwag's highest score?

319 in Tests, the highest score in the data.

How many wickets has Virender Sehwag taken in Tests?

37 wickets in 66 innings at an average of 42.95, economy 2.95, best figures 5/104.

Source: computed by CricketWise from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data (ODC-BY). Career totals cover only matches in the Cricsheet data. Definitions: methodology.