Virender Sehwag is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team.He was born into a Jat family from Haryana. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and an occasional right-arm off-spin bowler. He played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test cricket team in 2001. In April 2009, Sehwag became the only Indian to be honored as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his performance in 2008.

Sehwag holds multiple records including the highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket (319), which was also the fastest triple century in the history of international cricket (reached 300 off only 278 balls) as well as the fastest 250 by any batsman (in 207 balls against Sri Lanka on 3rd December, 2009 at the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai). Sehwag also holds the distinction of being one of three batsmen in the world to have ever surpassed 300 twice in Test cricket, and the only one to score two triple centuries and take a five-wicket innings haul.In March 2009, Sehwag smashed the fastest century ever scored by an Indian in ODI cricket, from 60 balls.

Sehwag was often compared to Sachin Tendulkar in his early days due to the similar batting style, build and appearance. He has acknowledged numerous times that he consciously attempted to model his playing style on Tendulkar's in his youth.Sehwag's technique is often cited as being particularly unorthodox, often backing away (considered technically incorrect) to free his arms whilst playing his shots, in particular to cut or drive spinners inside out. He is frequently cited by commentators for his extremely strong (physically) square cutting and upper cutting and power through the off-side.He is also an excellent player of the late cut.Sehwag has shown a proclivity to be dismissed by inswing deliveries, something attributed to his leaden-footed batting style. He has also got dismissed playing the cut shot when the ball was too close to his body to cut, especially in limited over matches.

Virender Sehwag is often noted for his extremely attacking style of batting, and in 2005 he was described by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack as the "most exciting opener in the world"due to his aggressive style in Test matches, his strike rate being inferior only to that of Adam Gilchrist and Shahid Afridi.

In IPL, Delhi Daredevils' captain and icon player Sehwag was bagged by GMR for $750,000 (Rs 3 cr).In the first edition of the IPL, Sehwag scored 406 runs in the 14 matches that he played, with a highest score of 94, at an average of 33.83 and a strike rate of 184.55. He smashed 21 sixes and 46 fours in the tournament, in addition to 3 catches. He took 3 wickets in the tournament, with a best of 1/2 at an average of 44.33, with an economy rate of 12.09 and a strike rate of 22.

Sehwag was not in top notch form in the second edition of the IPL and also missed some matches due to a finger injury, even though his team the Delhi Daredevils were the table toppers during the league stage. His decisions not to play Glenn McGrath in the entire tournament and Daniel Vettori in key matches, raised quite a few eyebrows.