Virender Sehwag Named Wisden Cricketer of the Year

Oct 22, 2010, 15:30 IST

Indian opener Virender Sehwag was in April 2010 named Wisden Cricketer of the Year for the second time in a row. He had competiton from England captain Andrew Strauss and Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan. Sehwag had a strike-rate of 108.9, in the Tests he played in 2009.

Indian opener Virender Sehwag was in April 2010 named Wisden Cricketer of the Year for the second time in a row. He had competiton from England captain Andrew Strauss and Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan. Sehwag had a strike-rate of 108.9, in the Tests he played in 2009. In One-Day Internationals, Sehwag had a strike-rate of 136.5 with an average of 45. The Wisden Cricketer of the Year honour was instituted in 2004. Australians Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne and talismanic English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff were its past winners.

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