Virender Sehwag's son also followed his path, created a stir by scoring a double century in this tournament

By News Update On Nov 21, 2024

Sports Desk : Virender Sehwag's son Aryaveer scored a double century in the Cooch Behar Trophy being played at the MCA Cricket Ground in Shillong. Aryaveer played this innings against Meghalaya. By scoring a double century in the Under-19 tournament, he has started following his father's footsteps. Aryaveer, playing for Delhi, gave his team a big lead by scoring a double century.

Aryaveer hit brilliant shots all around the field. In his innings of 200 runs in 229 balls, Aryaveer hit 34 fours and two sixes and scored at a strike rate of 87.34. By the end of the day's play due to Aryaveer's innings, Delhi had scored 468 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. Delhi team has also achieved a lead of 208 runs. Along with him, another opener Arnav Bugga also scored a century. Both the openers added 180 runs for the first wicket.

Meghalaya's first innings was reduced to 260 runs. Fast bowler Udhav Mohan took four wickets. Apart from that Arnav Bugga took 3 wickets. Whereas Delhi has scored 468 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in the first innings.

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Aryaveer made his debut in the Vinoo Mankad Trophy in October and played a key role in the six-wicket win against Manipur in the Under-19 one-day competition. He had played an inning of 49 runs. In 2019, while talking about his son, Sehwag had said that there is no pressure on him to become a cricketer.

Sehwag had said, “I don't want to see another Virender Sehwag in them. He can become Virat Kohli or Hardik Pandya or MS Dhoni. But he doesn't need to be a cricketer. They are free to choose their career and we will help them move forward as much as possible. But the main thing is that they should be good human beings. There can be no compromise on this.”

Sehwag had also revealed last year that his son is already looking to get an IPL contract. “My son is 15 years old and is already working hard to get a chance to play in the IPL,” he said on Star Sports.