Collage picture of Virender Sehwag (left) and son Aaryavir.© X (Twitter)
Legendary India opener Virender Sehwag took to social media to remind his son of a missed alternative to be gifted a Ferrari automobile. Sehwag’s son Aaryavir – true to his genes – slammed a sensational 297 in simply 309 balls for Delhi in opposition to Meghalaya within the Cooch Behar Trophy. Nonetheless, the rating of 297 meant that Aaryavir had fallen wanting Sehwag’s profession highest rating of 319 by simply 23 runs. It allowed Sehwag to remind his son of an outdated promise.
“Well played Aaryavir. Missed a Ferrari by 23 runs. But well done, keep the fire alive and may you score many more daddy hundreds and doubles and triples,” tweeted Sehwag.
Sehwag’s tweet goes again to one thing he mentioned practically a decade in the past, in 2015. Then, in an interview with Harsha Bhogle, Sehwag had promised that he would reward his sons Aaryavir and Vedant a Ferrari in the event that they ever managed to cross his greatest rating of 319.
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) November 22, 2024
“My kids know I have made some humongous scores in Test cricket. So I have told them, if they cross that 319-run mark even in school cricket, I will present them a Ferrari,” Sehwag had revealed to Bhogle.
Aaryavir got here very near that mark within the Cooch Behar Trophy, however his swashbuckling knock fell brief ultimately. He hit three sixes and a whopping 51 boundaries en path to 297.
Virender Sehwag is extensively thought to be one among India’s greatest-ever opening batters and one of many best openers of his technology. Sehwag is one among solely two Indians to have slammed a triple century in Check cricket, and the one Indian to slam two triple centuries.
Sehwag achieved his highest rating of 319 in opposition to South Africa in 2008 in Chennai.
Sehwag additionally is aware of the agony of lacking out on a triple hundred, having gotten out for 293 in opposition to Sri Lanka as soon as in his profession.
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