There are many great cricketers in the history of Indian cricket, whose sons have also played international cricket. At the same time, sons of some stalwarts are currently playing in domestic cricket, one name among them is that of former explosive opener of India Virender Sehwag. Virender Sehwag’s son Aryaveer Sehwag is in the news at the moment, he had made a place in the Delhi Under-19 team only last month. He is currently playing in Cooch Behar Trophy. In this tournament, he has played a memorable innings for Delhi against Meghalaya.
Virender Sehwag’s son scored a double century
Aryaveer Sehwag scored a double century against Meghalaya at the MCA Cricket Ground in Shillong on Thursday. He remained unbeaten after scoring 200 runs on 229 balls till the end of the second game. Aryaveer Sehwag also hit 34 fours and two sixes in this innings. During his innings, Aryaveer hit some brilliant shots around the field and attracted everyone’s attention. Earlier, Aryaveer had made his debut in the Vinoo Mankad Trophy in October and played a brilliant inning of 49 runs against Manipur to help his team win by six wickets.
Aryaveer’s innings fell heavily on Meghalaya
In this match, Meghalaya team won the toss and decided to bat first. But Meghalaya team collapsed after scoring 260 runs in 104.3 overs. After this, Aryaveer Sehwag and Arnav Bugga started the innings for Delhi. Arnav Bugga also managed to score a century and was out after scoring 114 runs. Both the openers made a partnership of 180 runs for the first wicket. Due to the strong innings of these two players, Delhi scored 468 runs at the loss of 2 wickets by the end of the second day’s play and took a lead of 208 runs.
Aryaveer has also been a part of Delhi Under-16 team before this. Even then he had performed excellently. Aryaveer is an opening batsman like his father. Virender Sehwag played cricket in all three formats for India. He was a part of the team that won T20 World Cup 2007 and ODI World Cup 2011 for India. Now his son is showing strength to make a place in international cricket.
