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IPL playerIndia2008 to 2015

Virender Sehwag

On scorecards: V Sehwag · Right-hand bat

8
Seasons
104
Matches
2,728
Runs
SR 155.4
6
Wickets
econ 10.29
0
Titles
11
Player of the match

From CricArcade's IPL records, 2008 to 2015 · Sources

Virender Sehwag, a batter, played eight IPL seasons for two franchises. In eight seasons the title never came.

The arrival

Virender Sehwag was there from the start, in the league's first season, 2008, signed by Delhi Daredevils outside the auction.

That first season brought 14 matches, 406 runs and 3 wickets at 12.09 an over.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2012, for Delhi Daredevils: 495 runs at an average of 33.0, striking at 161.2 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 123.7, with 5 fifties, and a highest score of 87 not out. There were four seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2008, 2011, 2012 and 2014).

Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2011: 424 runs at a strike rate of 176.7, 56 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.

Franchise by franchise

2008 to 2013, Delhi Daredevils. 79 matches, 2,174 runs and 6 wickets; captain in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

2014 to 2015, Kings XI Punjab. Bought at the 2014 auction for ₹3.20 cr. 25 matches and 554 runs.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Delhi Daredevils, 2008 to 2013.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, Virender Sehwag struck at 155.4. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 125.0, so Virender Sehwag scored about 30 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 72% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 334 fours and 106 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 37% of the balls Virender Sehwag faced were dot balls, a higher share than 62% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 16.6 balls, and a four every 5.3.

With the ball, 6 wickets in 137 deliveries, at 10.29 runs an over against a league rate of 7.88 for the same seasons: 2.41 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.

The fielding record: 34 catches and 8 run-outs.

At the auction

Virender Sehwag went under the hammer once. The price was ₹3.20 cr, paid by Kings XI Punjab in 2014.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

The legacy

Virender Sehwag made 104 IPL appearances, the last for Kings XI Punjab in 2015, and won 11 player-of-the-match awards.

Season by season

Batting, bowling and fielding for each IPL season. SR is strike rate, Econ runs per over, POTM player-of-the-match awards; * not out.
SeasonTeamMRunsHSAvgSR50/100WktsEconBestCtPOTM
2008Delhi Daredevils1440694*33.8184.63/0312.091/232Captain
2009Delhi Daredevils111985019.8143.51/0021.43-31Captain
2010Delhi Daredevils143567525.4163.33/034.062/1821Captain
2011Delhi Daredevils1142411938.5176.72/1–––92
2012Delhi Daredevils1649587*33.0161.25/0011.25-73
2013Delhi Daredevils1329595*24.6126.61/009.00-51
2014Kings XI Punjab1745512226.8144.41/1–––51
2015Kings XI Punjab8994712.4117.90/0–––0

Franchise journey

Ball-by-ball detail

Career totals from ball-by-ball data, not split by season; included only where they agree exactly with the runs and wickets on this page.
MetricValue
Dot balls faced37%
Balls per four5.3
Balls per six16.6
Dot balls bowled32.4%
Balls per wicket22.7
Catches34
Run-outs8
Stumpings0

At the auction

From the IPL auction archive; prices in lakh and crore of rupees, with the US dollar price for the auctions that were conducted in dollars (2008 to 2013).
AuctionSetBase priceResult
2014M1₹2 crSold to Kings XI Punjab for ₹3.20 cr

Sources