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Viru Sehwag Must Get 1 Test Match As Send-off:

Only a handful of fans had taken their seats on this chilly, smoggy Thursday morning when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) conducted a felicitation function for the recently retired Virender Sehwag, who would fill up stadiums around the world when he batted in his pomp. Which, by the way, wasn’t very long ago.

During this shabbily organized event half-an-hour before the start of the fourth Test match at Feroz Shah Kotla, a stadium Sehwag called home for an overwhelming majority of his career, you could count more people on the ground - players and support staff from India and South Africa, BCCI and DDCA officials, photojournalist and broadcasting crew, Sehwag’s family and the man himself — than in the stands. On the big screen, a video montage of his best innings entertained vacant spaces as Sehwag collected his memento from Anurag Thakur and made a brief speech before shaking hands with members of both teams. Except Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara - they were sent back to the dressing room by Virat Kohli to pad up when they had come to attend the felicitation.

Once the ceremony ended, Sehwag and his family settled down in an enclosure underneath the dressing rooms to watch the match. As you looked in that direction, you could also see a ‘Thank You Viru’ banner put up by the DDCA above - curiously - the visiting team’s dressing room. Maybe, you would think, South Africa, against whom he scored a century on debut and his highest score of 319, were grateful that he is not out there to face them. In a way, though, they were facing him.

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