When dashing Indian opener Virender Sehwag nicknamed Viru arrived at scene of International cricket people called him as a clone of the Master Blaster Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar.
Main reason of such comparison was how they approached their game.
Both are attacking batsman and like to attack on the bowler from the word go.
They both have attacking mind set.
There are few more similarities such as both are right handed batsman and both love to open the innings to face the new ball.
Both players are decent contributors with the ball as well.
Both players started their international career as middle order batsman, but after that they both become a threat for even world class bowlers as openers.
In many matches they opened the innings for Team India.
They opened the innings for Team India in 79 one day international matches and they scored 3382 runs with an excellent average of 42.
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They share eleven centuries and 15 half centuries stand for the opening wicket for Team India.
In Pakistan at Multan Cricket Ground Virender Sehwag become first Indian batsman to score a Triple hundred in a test innings and recently Sachin Tendulkar become first batsman on the planned to score a double hundred in a one day international match when he played an inning of 200 not out against South Africa.
As they share many good points both have faced some bad phase in their careers not mainly due to form, but due to injury Sachin Tendulkar remained out of the international cricket due to tennis elbow problem and following his idol Virender Sehwag's career is also hit by major shoulder injury, due to that he missed many international tournaments including one T20 world Championship.
They have loads of similarities, but they also differ on many.
For instance Sachin Tendulkar is technically a compact player, but in the other hand Virender Sehwag mainly depends on hand eye coordination.
Sachin Tendulkar plays more copy book shots as compared to Virender Sehwag who has his own way to send the ball outside the fence.
Sachin Tendulkar is now 20 years old in international cricket whereas Virender Sehwag is a decade old.
Sachin Tendulkar is having a better average as compared to Virender Sehwag in one day international, but later has a better strike rate, which is a major factor in limited over international cricket.
So concluding this debate I would like to say that both are great players having some similarities and also they are serving well for the cause of Team India.
Main reason of such comparison was how they approached their game.
Both are attacking batsman and like to attack on the bowler from the word go.
They both have attacking mind set.
There are few more similarities such as both are right handed batsman and both love to open the innings to face the new ball.
Both players are decent contributors with the ball as well.
Both players started their international career as middle order batsman, but after that they both become a threat for even world class bowlers as openers.
In many matches they opened the innings for Team India.
They opened the innings for Team India in 79 one day international matches and they scored 3382 runs with an excellent average of 42.
81.
They share eleven centuries and 15 half centuries stand for the opening wicket for Team India.
In Pakistan at Multan Cricket Ground Virender Sehwag become first Indian batsman to score a Triple hundred in a test innings and recently Sachin Tendulkar become first batsman on the planned to score a double hundred in a one day international match when he played an inning of 200 not out against South Africa.
As they share many good points both have faced some bad phase in their careers not mainly due to form, but due to injury Sachin Tendulkar remained out of the international cricket due to tennis elbow problem and following his idol Virender Sehwag's career is also hit by major shoulder injury, due to that he missed many international tournaments including one T20 world Championship.
They have loads of similarities, but they also differ on many.
For instance Sachin Tendulkar is technically a compact player, but in the other hand Virender Sehwag mainly depends on hand eye coordination.
Sachin Tendulkar plays more copy book shots as compared to Virender Sehwag who has his own way to send the ball outside the fence.
Sachin Tendulkar is now 20 years old in international cricket whereas Virender Sehwag is a decade old.
Sachin Tendulkar is having a better average as compared to Virender Sehwag in one day international, but later has a better strike rate, which is a major factor in limited over international cricket.
So concluding this debate I would like to say that both are great players having some similarities and also they are serving well for the cause of Team India.