 Sehwag reaches 4,000 Test run milestone
 St. Kitts, June. 27: Virender Sehwag became the 11th Indian to complete 4,000 runs during his quickfire 65 in the second innings of the drawn third cricket Test against the West Indies here. The Delhi batsman achieved the feat in his 48th Test and now has 4,062 runs at an average of 53.44. Sehwag's innings was his 12th half-century in Tests but only his fourth in the second innings of a match.
He became the second Indian to aggregate 300 runs or more in the current series after his opening partner Wasim Jaffer. Sehwag now has 353 runs at an average of 70.59 in the rubber. Jaffer has amassed 370 at 74.00 runs per innings. Skipper Rahul Dravid also completed his 300 runs in the series. He now has tallied 347 runs in the rubber at 86.75.
Jaffer and Sehwag seem to be combining well and can be an answer to India's longstanding opening woes. With their century stand (109) in the second innings of the third Test, they became the first Indian opening pair to have been associated in two century stands in the West Indies. They had put on 159 in the first innings of the second Test at St Lucia. After his 44th Test fifty, Dravid now needs exactly 100 more to achieve the milestone of 9,000 Test runs.
VVS Laxman (100 and 63) posted his 25th fifty and seventh against West Indies. For the third time in his career, he registered a century and a fifty in the same match -- the earlier two instances being 59 and 281 against Australia at Kolkata in 2000-01 and 104 not out and 67 not out against New Zealand at Mohali in 2003-04. (Agencies)
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