I do not know he has mental strength. I disagree. Horses do not have mental strength because its restless. Staying in one place and controlling things is big no no. He has immense self belief in his abilities to hit the ball the way he wants. Sehwag style is simple elegant and brutal hitting. Devillers can hit from any position like he is a gladiator. i used to think sehwag was a gladiator in a sense he played his game and his team mates played another game. Only special players has ability play the way want irrespective of situation. Sehwag only flaw is his stubbornness to change and wait for situation benign for him to hit. His restless mind was his boss. He has opposite of mental strength. He was slave to his addiction for trying to carve everything. Once eye sight lost its efficience he got exposed more. His best inning was 195 against aussies. It was pure calculative hitting. The thing i like about sehwag batting is run came in torrents. He always makes fan go AWE.

Ian - I don't always agree with what you say but have always supported your views on Viru. I just loved, loved the way he played the game and I know that you have been a big supporter of his style. I found it hard to believe that after that fabulous 195 at the MCG, when India toured Australia the next time around they didn't pick Viru in the playing 11 for the game at the MCG. Consequently India really struggled in the beginning of the innings and inevitably Australia would gain the ascendancy. But when they brought Viru back after two tests, he made an immediate impact. Viru was a maverick and in my book is India's greatest ever batsman. The number of innings - and big innings at that - just took your breath away. I would put him in the same category as Bradman and Viv as the top 3 batsmen to have ever played the game. Like you I will miss him too. They don't make them like him anymore.

Ian thank you for your comments. No Indian fan will forget your advocacy of Sehwag when the Indian selectors in their wisdom dropped him initially for the 2007 Australian tour, only to bring him back and vindicate you with his astonishing innings in the last test to pull off an unlikely heist of a draw when all seemed lost. There is no surer indication of your championing of attacking cricket through 50 years of playing, captaining and commenting on cricket than your consistent and unhesitating support for Sehwag and for everyone who plays attacking and entertaining cricket. Viru thanks for the memories and Ian thanks for enlightening us!