5 records of Virender Sehwag that might never be broken

3. Most runs by an Indian batter in a day in Test cricket

India took the stage alongside Sri Lanka for the final game of the three-match Test series in December 2009. The Lankan Lions batted first and posted 393 runs on the board with Tillakaratne Dilshan (109 runs off 160 deliveries) top-scoring.

It was the first session of Day 2 as Sehwag and Murali Vijay started India’s proceedings with the bat. Virender put on the exhibition of his flamboyant stroke play and smashed 284 runs on that day itself. The staggering tally is the most runs by an Indian batter in a day’s play in the longest format of the game. The previous best is also Sehwag’s 257 run-effort against South Africa in 2008.

The Indian cricketer next on the list is Karun. He smashed 232 runs on the fourth day of the fifth Test against England in December 2016. But the ace batter is presently not in India’s scheme of things across formats. India presently have Rishabh Pant who is known for his aggressive brand of cricket but he has not been able to convert starts to three-figure marks consistently. 

Moroever, nowadays, pitches used for Test cricket have a lot of assistance for the bowlers, and surpassing Sehwag’s tally is pretty challenging.