Virender Sehwag, Diana Edulji and AravindaD’Silva enter ICC’s Hall of Fame

NEW DELHI: Three cricketing greats and standout performers in the history of the game - legendary opener Virender Sehwag, former Indian Women Test skipper Diana Edulji and Sri Lanka’s iconic star Aravinda de Silva are the latest inductees to be added to the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday announced the name of the three legends of cricket as the latest inductees of the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

Sehwag had dynamism a destructive opener of the modern era holds a record that is still hard to match, the first Indian with a Triple century. Sehwag has in fact scored two Triple Hundreds.

During his illustrious career, Sehwag scored 23 Test centuries, the fifth most by an India men’s player and claimed a record of the highest score by an Indian player ever, 319 which was against South Africa in Chennai in 2008. Overall, Sehwag has 8,586 runs to his name at an average of 49.34 in 104 appearances.

The second inductee in the ICC Hall of Fame Edulji captained India for almost three decades, and as a left-arm orthodox spinner claimed 100 wickets while making 54 international appearances.

The third inductee of the ICC Hall of Fame was a winner of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup with Sri Lanka in 1996 - Aravinda de Silva. (ANI)

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