India, Sept. 8 -- What Virender Sehwag did for Indian cricket will never be forgotten. The guy made scoring daddy hundreds ridiculously easy and during a 15-year-long career, arguably became India's greatest Test opener after the legendary Sunil Gavaskar. Sehwag changed the perception of batting in Test cricket, broke free of the defensive mindset. Long before Rishabh Pant bedazzled with his reverse-lap-scoop-sweeps, and Brendon McCullum invented Bazball, there was Sehwag, launching sixes off the last over before lunch, tea and stumps. That Indian cricket thrived immensely under Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid owed plenty to Sehwag, the only Indian batter to notch up two triple centuries in Tests.

However, even the great Sehwag experienc...