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Virender Sehwag paid birthday tribute to by Sophos Antivirus

Virender Sehwag celebrates his 36th birthday on October 20, 2014.

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Virender Sehwag celebrates his 36th birthday on October 20, 2014 © Getty Images
Virender Sehwag celebrates his 36th birthday on October 20, 2014 © Getty Images

Virender Sehwag, who took outrageous batting to different standards altogether, could (almost) be used as a pseudonym for risk in the sport. Abhishek Mukherjee checks out the man’s presence on social media, only to find that his personal website was no less…

Please note this is a humour article — work of pure fiction

Being a Virender Sehwag fan comes with its perks: one gets (should the past tense be more relevant here?) to see aggressive batting look ridiculously easy, world-class spinners being treated with supreme disdain, footwork being non-existent, and interviews featuring phrases like “[my] talent was always there.”

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It has been quite a while since we have seen a typical Sehwag blitzkrieg. I re-lived a few anecdotes with others, browsed through a few videos of his batting on YouTube, did a Google search with his name, and got to know he has a website of his own.

I clicked. I had to. Who knows what was in store? Maybe there were lesser-known stories, never-seen videos, outrageous comments, maybe even a ghazal or two sung by him…

The website, however, did not open; or rather, Sophos Antivirus refused to take me to the site. “High Risk Website Blocked” was the message Sophos Web Protection gave me. I was disappointed at being denied and had even thought of disabling the antivirus.

Then it struck me. What better tribute can anyone pay to the great man than this on his birthday? Anything related to Sehwag had to be high-risk, just like his batting! It was an instant mood-lifter — as good as any that had existed. There could not have been an error message more befitting to Sehwag’s website.

(Abhishek Mukherjee is the Deputy Editor and Cricket Historian at CricketCountry. He blogs here and can be followed on Twitter here.)

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