Sehwag one of the greats

Rob Smyth argues in the Wisden Cricketer that despite a 50-plus Test average and a mind-boggling strike-rate, Virender Sehwag remains relatively under-appreciated.

Sehwag has been compared to Sachin Tendulkar, with whom he shares a bewitching little mastery, but a more relevant reference point is surely Lara. Like Lara, Sehwag scores monstrous hundreds at breakneck speed; like Lara, his form fluctuates wildly, surely a mark of the truest genius; like Lara, when the mood takes him there is absolutely nothing a bowler can do to avoid being pummeled.