5 Best Asian opening batsmen

#3. Virender Sehwag

If hitting a six at 295 to reach 300 will be enough to give an amazing intro to the opener, his boundaries of the very first ball of the innings are also equally qualified for the same. The bashing opener gave the much-needed momentum to the Indian innings with his aggressive approach. In the 212 matches he opened the batting for India, Sehwag has 7518 runs with an average of 36.50. Like his partner Sachin, Sehwag also holds a double century while opening.

Of the 15 centuries the opener has scored, 12 of them came had a strike rate of over 100 which summarises his supremacy while opening the batting for India. Although Sehwag retired way back in 2013, his fearlessness approach still lives in our memory and India is yet to find an opener who can fill in the shoes of ‘nawab of najafgarh’.