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5 instances when Virender Sehwag's words were as outrageous as his strokes

We all know how Virender Sehwag used to bat. His style and approach to batting is something inimitable. Nobody can forget how he used to dispatch the very first ball of the match to the boundary with utter disdain. Not only while batting, the man himself was outrageous with his words too.Recently he made a jibe at former Indian coach Greg Chappell on entertainment website VIUs show What the duck. Sehwag in his quintessential manner told the host Vikram Sathaye, His cricketing knowledge - superb. Man-management bilkul zero. Sehwag-management total flop.There are other instances also when Sehwag showed his cheeky side while speaking. Let's have a look at 5 such instances:

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Sehwag took a jibe at skipper Dhoni

During India’s abysmal tour down under in 2012, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the team management had controversially opted for a rotation policy in which only two among the three seniors – Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag – would play a match, with a change in combinations throughout the series.

Dhoni backed this decision by saying that he wanted to give the youngsters the opportunity to express themselves. Dhoni also said that the team would lose out on about 20 runs in the field if all three seniors are played together.

When Dhoni was banned for a game in the series, Sehwag led the side and took an acrobatic catch in the game against Sri Lanka. So when he was asked about Dhoni’s opinion about the slowness of the seniors on the field, Sehwag replied,”Have you seen my catch? MS [Dhoni] will come for the next match; you can ask him the question.”

He surely hit that one for a massive ‘six’.

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