SK Flashback: Virender Sehwag becomes first Indian to score a triple century

The Sehwag-Sachin stand

Sehwag and Tendulkar stitched together a 336-run partnership

Sachin started with a four giving an indication of things to come. Sehwag was going all guns blazing, hammering Shabbir Ahmed for three fours in the 49th over, to take India past 200. In typical Sehwag fashion, he reached his 150 in just 150 balls, with a four off Shoaib Akhtar, but the carnage wouldn’t abate anytime soon.

A few overs later, in the 59th, Abdul Razzaq was tonked for three fours.

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Sehwag, who was in a destructive mood, also took India past 300 with a four off Saqlain. A couple of overs prior to that, he got to his double ton, rather uncharacteristically with a couple of runs and not a boundary – a double ton in a single day’s play, that too in just 222 balls. In fact, Sehwag took 10 balls to go from 199 to 200.

That didn’t stop India from reaching 350 in only the 87th over. The foundation was all set for a colossal score; Tendulkar had reached his half-century too.