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Sehwag blazes to 2500 runs

Rajneesh Gupta | November 30, 2004 17:20 IST

Virender Sehwag added yet another feather to his cap by becoming the quickest Indian to aggregate 2,500 runs in Test cricket.

The dashing opener needed only 47 innings to reach this landmark, which are 3 less than Rahul Dravid, the previous record holder for India.

Sehwag is also the joint fifth fastest to aggregate 2,500 runs in a career after Don Bradman, Everton Weekes, Herbert Sutcliffe and Neil Harvey along with some very accomplished names like Wally Hammond, Dennis Compton and Vivian Richards.

Sehwag, in fact, is the faster than all contemporary 'great' batsmen – Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Inzamam-ul-Haq to name a few.

Quickest Indians to aggregate 2,500 runs:
BatsmanInnsTestsAveHS100s
Sehwag, V472954.393098
Dravid, RS503055.561906
Azharuddin, M553749.021998
Gavaskar, SM562950.002209
Tendulkar, SR563952.081798
Ganguly, SC603546.301737

Quickest to aggregate 2,500 runs in Test cricket:
BatsmanForInnsTestsAveHS100s
Bradman, DGAus2618104.1733412
Weekes, EdeCWI422662.502079
Sutcliffe, HEng432864.101768
Harvey, RNAus462760.9820510
Hammond, WREng472760.982518
Compton, DCSEng472864.1020810
Richards, IVAWI472855.562918
Sehwag, VInd472954.393098


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