Is Sehwag's 'Natural Game' theory justified?

I think looking at his currently long drought, the natural game theory is not justified. I think Sehwag now seems to have lost a bit of his eye-sight which used to give him such an advantage as he used to pick the ball early and play those extravagant shots. But with age catching up and Sehwag not having a plan B in his style of play is now exposed. So I would say that now is the time for introspection for Tevez as to whether he has another dimension to his play or not!! Cheers! Ram

Hello Amit, glad to see your topic. Every natural thing is good one. But I am agree with some time Sehwag throw his wicket for his natural game. Every person must be do his job as required by situation and time.

I think after his shoulder surgery he has not been able to recapture his old magic yet. It is always hard to come back from an injury especially on away tours against good bowling attacks like England and Australia. So he is low on confidence. He simply needs to stay at the wicket long enough, runs will come from his bat. Coming home series against England is right time for him to come back in form.

I think Sehwag played in one style throughout his career. However, it seemed a bit strange that he excelled more in Test matches than in ODIs. May be, he should leave one form out of T-20s and ODIs. I would say leave T-20s, because we have many youngsters more appropriate for this stuff, and Sehwag should focus more on ODIs and Test matches. That would be much better for him.

I would, to some extent, say yes to your question. I think it is a justified reply to any query that happens to begin regarding his batting style. And major reason why this reply has worked because all along his career has been surrounded by India's most successful players. So even though he failed in his natural batting the team was saved by effort of others and blame that his naturalness is getting a problem has seldom contributed to the fuel. Few days back I read an article from Greg Chappel on his days with Virendra Sehwag. He said somewhat same as you are saying. He tried to talk to Sehwag regarding what he needs to improve and how correct he would be if he does that, but all was in vain. He loves the way he plays. I think that should make us leave him to do what he loves to do. HITTING.. In an attempt to develop him more we may loose a smashing Indian opener. If he would have been the way we are wishing him to be....perhaps this discussion wouldn't have existed.

Sehwag plays his natural game and I think it's best for him,if he tried to play in different style he may not be able to produce his best to us.Every player has it's own style and they play according to their strong point here sehwag has attacking power so he chose to attack the bowlers...

Virender Sehwag is no doubt one of the best players of Indian cricket team who has impressed all of his fans with his natural talent of hitting the ball. However, his recent performance has not lived up to expectations but I still believe that every player sees an up and down in his career and its Sehwag's bad time which will be over soon. We will see our hero back to form very soon.

In my opinion whther Sehwag's stroke play is justified or not I don't think he will change his style of play. I am thinking like this because he is a natural stroke player and anything other than that will obviously have an impact on him. It won't be that much good for him. The best way I should suggest is let him play his game and let him be the 'unpredictable'.

I think two years ago, Sehwag said he is playing this kind of cricket only to give entertainment to his fans and audience. I enjoy a lot his game rather than sachin's. He is the all time best attacking player of india.