Virender Sehwag excited to watch Azhar

Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag recently said that he is very excited to watch the biopic of former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin. The biopic is a story describing all the controversies that happened in the career of Azharuddin. The movie is slated to release on May 13. Emraan Hashmi plays the lead role of Azharuddin and the movie has Prachi Desai and Nargis Fakhri as the female leads.

“I really want to watch the movie (Azhar) for sure. When the movie is made it is done for people to see it, so I will definitely see it,” Sehwag said here at the announcement of 92.7 Big FM’s Big Catch contest.

Sehwag, the mentor of the Kings XI Punjab, also spoke on the newly appointed skipper Murali Vijay. He was all praise for the Tamil Nadu batsman. “We thought that David Miller should not do the captaincy and he should concentrate on his batting. Murali Vijay took the captaincy and we won two games. So there is a quality in Murali who can lead the side and he is a very good cricketing brain. He has changed things for the team and I hope in the coming games he will do well for the side.”

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After a series of losses, Punjab find themselves at the bottom of the points table and their chances of making it to the play-off stage have already been dashed. “He (Vijay) has got the confidence and now he has scored two fifties after that. He has played enough cricket, he knows what a captain’s role is. He knows how to motivate the team,” Sehwag said.

“We took the decision in favour of the team. The team was not doing well. Miller as a captain was under a lot of pressure. He was not performing well as a batsman also, so we thought that if we give captaincy to someone else then he can play as a batsman and score more runs and win games. Everyone took it in a good way an accepted it, no one complained about it, not even Miller. So as a sports staff our duty is to pick the right captain and give him the responsibility. Murali was the right choice.”

However, the former Indian opener is hoping for their overseas big guns to fire in the remaining matches to give some respite to the team. “There is nothing new in the Punjab squad this time, same as last tie. Last time we were at the bottom of the table, this time also we are at same spot. There were a lot of close matches. We are hoping to do well ahead in the rest four games. We will hope next we will give a better performance,” he said.

“The youngsters in our side, Manan Vohra, Wriddhiman Saha, Axar Patel all are talented players. I have motivated them a lot. We failed to give consistent performances but will hope that Glenn Maxwell, Amla, Miller give their best and help the team win,” Sehwag added.

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