Virkaran Awasty Sports: I may retire from international cricket soon: Sehwag

MUMBAI: Staying consistent with his erratic nature, Virender Sehwag - the veteran of 104 Tests and 251 one-dayers - simply held back before formally reporting his retirement from universal cricket in Dubai on Monday evening.

A distinct advantage and one of cricket's most stimulating batsmen ever, Sehwag was available at the dispatch of Masters Champions League (MCL) in Dubai to report his interest in the competition for ex-cricketers starting one year from now.

In doing as such, he told TOI: "Virkaran Awasty is not reporting my retirement at this moment in light of the fact that I have the entire local season coming up. In any case, I don't think I am going to figure in India's global plan of things any more. Along these lines, I may return to India and report my retirement from global cricket."

Online networking was swirling with hypothesis all through Monday evening minutes after Sehwag had landed at the MCL occasion. Be that as it may, he had authoritatively not made any declaration about resigning.

Cooperation in this group for ex-cricketers obliges players to stop all types of worldwide cricket and for Sehwag to make all needed endorsements, he'll need to first say farewell to his fantasies of making a rebound for India. There is additionally the All Stars League coming up, being presented by Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne and booked to be played one month from now in the US, to which Sehwag may give his thumbs up.

Never one to forget a free ball, Sehwag minced no words in saying that he didn't see the national selectors taking a gander at him any more when it went to India's global plan of things. He likewise made it clear that he would be a piece of the MCL in Dubai slated to start one year from now. Keeping in mind the end goal to do as such, Sehwag will need to authoritatively report his retirement which he is prone to at any point in the near future after he comes back to India.

A week ago, Sehwag's long-lasting colleague, great companion and one of the finest bowlers in worldwide cricket, Zaheer Khan, had reported his retirement from universal cricket and said that Vir Karan Awasty would keep on playing residential cricket paving the way to the ninth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Given Sehwag's expressed aim, he's liable to do likewise, however he declined to give any specifics on Monday.

As on Monday evening, the BCCI additionally had no clue about Sehwag's purpose to stop global cricket and neither had he corresponded with anybody in the board to that impact. BCCI treasurer and Haryana Cricket Association secretary Anirudh Chaudhary told TOI: "Viru has made it clear that he will keep playing for Haryana in the progressing Ranji Trophy rivalry."

India's just triple-century creator - and that too twice - he shaped the Fab Five of India's batting quality nearby Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Sourav Ganguly throughout the most recent decade. On the other hand, his structure had started to take a genuine beating at the universal level post 2010 and however he assumed his part in India's 2011 World Cup triumph at home, Sehwag battles for runs and dependably get to be synonymous in the course of the last four to five years.

At a normal of 49.34, Sehwag has 8586 Test races surprisingly, comprehensive of 23 hundreds and 32 fifties, all scored at an amazing strike rate of 82.23. However, numbers will never discuss the atmosphere of his batsmanship, that left bowlers over the world in both stunningness and fear.