A Quote by Virender Sehwag

When I play a cover-drive, I play it to score runs. — © Virender Sehwag
When I play a cover-drive, I play it to score runs.
It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.
I think and visualise before I play where people are likely to bowl to me and where I am likely to score and try to picture fields that are set and play things over in my mind, where I am going to get runs and how they are looking to get me out.
If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.
How are you gonna score if somebody doesn't drive in the runs?
I don't pick tournaments to score or rivals or other teams to score against. I'm a striker: every game I play, I want to score.
Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.
It is frustrating when you go all that way, you train, and you just don't turn up. It does happen. If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score the runs.
I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.
I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.
I'll play as long as that competitive spirit and drive is there because that's what gets me up in the morning, that feeling of having a batsman drive at you, play and miss, the sort of theatre around that sort of stuff.
I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in.
I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
To win Test matches consistently you've got to take 20 wickets - yes, you've got to score runs but if you can't bowl a team out it doesn't matter how many runs you score.
It's hard to score in this league when you don't get on the power play and don't play special teams.
Play well, play regularly, and score goals. Nothing else.
I think I was called 'the pianist' because of the way I play. It's true that I don't score many goals, just a few, but they are beautiful when I do score! I think it's more about my style of play, how I touch the ball, how I pass the ball, how I move it.
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