India is no.1 Test Team - India beat Sri Ilanka in 3rd Test, won Series by 2-0

India won the third test match against Sri Lanka by an inning and 24 runs and and becomes the no.1 test team on the 5th and final day of the match on December 6, 2009. India won the 3 match series by 2-0.

India has reached the top spot first time in 70 years and since the official ranking system implemented in 2001. India is the 3rd team to reach top of test ranking and only Australia and South Africa before.

India needed 4 wickets on the 5th day and Zaheer Khan strike early with the wicket of captain Kumara Sangakkara and wrapped the team within one hour. Zaheer Khan took 5 wickets for 72 runs in the 2nd inning.

Virender Sehwag got Man of the Match for his double century in the 1st inning as well as Man of the Series for his 491 runs in the series.

Brief Score:

India 726 for 9 dec (Sehwag 293, Dhoni 100*, Vijay 87, Dravid 74, Laxman 62, Tendulkar 52) beat Sri Lanka 393 (Dilshan 109, Mathews 99, Harbhajan 4-112) and 309 (Sangakkara 137, Paranavitana 54, Zaheer 5-72) by an innings and 24 runs

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Sehwag blast his 6th Double Century against Sri Lanka | 2nd fastest 200 runs by Virender Sehwag

Viru scores his 6th double ton

Virender Sehwag scored 18 runs in a Kulasekara over to score his 6th double century. Awesome batting display by the Najabgad Express. The Delhi Dasher scored his second hundred in just 64 balls which is amazing in terms of a Test score.

His opener partner M Vijay also had a splendid 87 runs but unfortunately missed out on his maiden century

He is the 4th player to score most number of doubles.

1. Don Bradman - 12 double centuries
2. Brian Lara - 9 double centuries
3. Hammonds - 7 double centuries
4. Virender Sehwag - 6 Double centuries

CONGRATS VIRU....keep going..

More records breaking:

• Only player to score 2 consecutive fastest double centuries

• Vinod Kambli's 224 was the highest score by an Indian in Mumbai. Viru crosses the score.
  

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Virender Sehwag completes 6,000 runs in Test Cricket | 3rd fastest Indian to do so

Virender Sehwag reaches 6000 runs in Test Cricket on day 2 of the third tests between IN vs SL

Virender Sehwag becomes the third fastest Indian player to reach 6,000 runs in 123 innings. The other two, being two Indian greats Sunil Gavaskar & Sachin Tendulkar.

3rd fastest Indian to complete 6000 runs
1st - Gavaskar 117 innings
2nd - Tendulkar 120 innings
3rd - Sehwag 123 innings

Don Bradman was the fastest among all, scoring 6,000 runs in just 68 innings. after all he was the Don

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Sehwag recommends Gautam Gambhir as successor of Delhi Daredevils Captain

Virender Sehwag earlier refused leading the national team as a captain, has now stepped down from the captaincy of Delhi Daredevil on the eve of the Champions League Twenty20 tournament. He recommended Gautam Gambhir to be the suitable leader who would be replacing him as the captain to lead the DD team into the tournament. Sehwag said "I would like to thank GMR [the franchise owners] for their understanding in accepting my request to step down. Personally, I would like to concentrate on my own batting and contribute to the team."

Sehway recommends Gautam Gambhir as his successor saying "Gautam did a great job of captaining Delhi and also during IPL 2 in South Africa this year, He has shown very good leadership skills and will bring fresh energy into the Delhi Daredevils."

Sehwag had recently injured his shoulder and had to sit out of the Compaq Cup in Sri Lanka.

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Virendra Sehwag not interested in captaining India

Viru who is least interested in the captaincy has a strong desire to play well for the country and score more and more runs and not get bogged down by the vice captaincy or captaincy issue. He has requested the selectors to remove him from the VC position and groom some new face for a longer run. He spoke to a news channel yesterday saying: "I don't want to be a captain, I have already told the selectors about it. I have said that a new player should be made vice-captain and be groomed to be a captain," he also said "I want that I should continue to score runs and keep winning matches for the team."

Sehwag was given the vice captaincy position when Rahul Dravid took over as Captain from Saurav Ganguly.

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