Virender Sehwag, a former Indian legendary cricketer is known to be outspoken and straightforward. Often in his views or Tweets too he expresses his point of view by being precise and accurate. Be it supporting the Indian athletes during the Olympics, or appreciating team India for winning the Lord’s Test, the Nawab of Najafgarh is in the news all the time.
This time he is in the news because he has launched a clothing line ‘VS’. He spoke about this new brand and also revealed a few secrets about his teammates during his playing days.
Virender Sehwag Revealed Sachin Tendulkar Instructed Teammates To Wear Branded Clothes And Ashish Nehra Needed Fashion Advice
When he was quizzed about the most fashionable member in the Indian team, Virender Sehwag immediately replied by taking Sachin Tendulkar’s name. He also said how the master blaster was a trendsetter for all the other players in the team to wear branded clothes.
“Sachin told us to wear branded clothes,” Sehwag said to Network18.
When the cricketer-turned-expert was asked to name one player with the worst fashion sense or someone who needed a bit of fashion advice, Virender Sehwag named left-arm pacer Ashish Nehra.
“During our times he used to only wear Reebok T-shirts and shorts. But his life has completely changed now. He needed that push in the beginning, and once again Sachin was the one who guided us,” he added.
Sachin Tendulkar currently holds the record for most hundreds in both Tests and ODIs. Incredibly, he retained a divine enthusiasm for the game till his last match. He also scored the first double-century in one-day cricket. In 2012, he became the first player to score 100 international centuries.
Later that year, though, he announced his retirement from ODIs. And on November 16, 2013, Sachin Tendulkar retired from Test cricket after a memorable 200th Test-the most by any player.
Virender Sehwag Names Harbhajan Singh As The Biggest Prankster
It’s a well-documented fact that the Indian team during the early 2000s had a fair bit of pranksters in the team. However, Virender Sehwag took the name of veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh‘s name as the biggest prankster.
He said, “It has to be Harbhajan Singh. If you ask anyone from that team, they would name him. In 2001, Harbhajan had got some scary masks from the US. So we put on those masks at night and decided to scare everyone. The first on the list was our computer analyst Nandan.”
The former India opener also revealed how Reetinder Singh Sodhi reacted when he was pranked with those masks.
“The second one was Reetinder Singh Sodhi, who actually took out his bat to hit us. We had to run away quickly from there. That is when we told him, it was only a prank,” Sehwag said.
Harbhajan Singh picked up 417 scalps by playing 103 Tests and 269 scalps playing 236 ODIs. He also picked up 25 scalps from 28 T20Is. His last Test and ODI came in 2015 and his last T20I came in 2016.
Since 2012, Harbhajan Singh has been mostly in and out of the side with Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja firming up as the lead spinners in Tests. Harbhajan Singh was restricted to the odd comeback, notably in the 2015-16 season where he played a few Tests and a handful of ODIs apart from getting a chance in the 2016 World T20 as well.
Since 2016, he hasn’t played for India in any format and it’s unlikely that he will ever again. Although yet to officially announce retirement, his career is all but over.