'Players watch videos to find mistakes, I watch to enjoy my boundaries'

Virender Sehwag speaks to Sandeep Dwivedi in the Indian Express, elaborating on the challenges he faced because of his deteriorating eyesight, how he got used to batting with glasses, and the effort it took to get his hand-eye co-ordination back and be successful.

After you hit a century against CSK during the last IPL season, you stated that your hands were going really well. What does that imply? Some time back, I was batting well but I wasn't converting 20s into 50s or into big ones. I had a problem when I was on the England tour and the Australia tour (both 2011). Because of my eyesight, I had headaches and a lot of eye pain. I was seeing a lot of doctors also. In England and Australia, after every Test match I was going to eye-specialists and every time they were telling me that my eyes are absolutely fine. The doctors would say, "You are getting headaches because of migraine". After the Australia series in India, I saw my family doctor, Dr Harsh Kumar. He told me that I don't have an eye problem but I have power of minus 0.5. 'Mujhe door ka problem hai'. Then he gave me glasses and it took almost a year to adjust to them. And now I am batting well, scoring runs. Everybody wants to play for India. Hopefully I will get a chance to play for India again and retire gracefully. I'll try my best.