A second three hundred & hopefully many more

Virendra Shewag has proved himself yet again in emphatic fashion. He is not somebody who should ever be dropped from the test side. He should be treated on par with Tendulkar in Test cricket. This is for his consistency & ability to score quickly at the top. Scoring quickly has been a trend in Test Cricket for the last 9-10 yrs, since the advent of Gilchrist on the scene. Shewag is the Indian representative of this quick scorers brigade. No cricket team can afford to have two plodders at the top of the innings. In fact, these days no team has two plodders at the top.

I am probably willing to bet that whenever Shewag chooses to retire, he will have a test batting average that will be among the best of this generation. Among the current crop Ponting will probably have the best & I feel Shewag will better this at retirement. He is going to leave Tendulkar & Dravid behind.

With his ability to score big there is a good probability that SHewag will score a third 300 in test cricket.

Among all the records of his that got mentioned on TV & other media the one that did not get much focus, was that his last 10 hundreds have been 150 + scores. Check out Hanging in there after a hundred