Sehwag’s .25-.25 vision

One of the most anticipated series between India and Australia is just days away, and one of India’s, in fact the world’s most feared openers, will have better vision during the series.

The news is that Sehwag has been practising with glasses on, and he may be wearing them in the middle in the forthcoming series against the Aussies. It has been learnt that the prolific opener has been doing so on the advice of his doctors, who have told him to wear 0.25 power corrective lenses due to mild headaches that the batsman suffers. It also explains to some extent the poor form that we saw from him in the recent One Day series against Pakistan, where he was eventually dropped for the third ODI.

AN Sharma, the coach of the Daredevils’ skipper, said to a leading daily: “He was fine in the nets.”

We will have to wait and see whether the player bats with the glasses on or not.

I, for one, cannot see any harm in him wearing the glasses. Two of my favourite players Clive Lloyd and Daniel Vettori have played with glasses on, and you would qualify both of them as legends of the game. Even Hashim Amla, in the early part of his career, wore glasses.

It’s also better to support them now than to have the vision further impaired.

Let’s hope that Virender Sehwag can return to his devastating best. It would be a treat to the eye (pun intended).