‘Modern day legend’: Top Twitter reactions to Sehwag’s retirement

Here are some tweets from the cricket fraternity and his fans who congratulated him on his extraordinary career.

Swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag, the only Indian batsman to score a triple century in a Test, announced his retirement from international cricket on Tuesday.

Virender Sehwag holds the ICC World Cup trophy. (AP)

“God has been kind and I have done what I wanted to do,” Sehwag said in a statement on his 37th birthday. Sehwag, who played the last of his 104 Tests against Australia in 2013, scored 8,586 runs with an average of 49.34.

Here are some tweets from the cricket fraternity and his fans who congratulated him on his extraordinary career.

Watch this space. Will be updated with more reactions.

(with AFP inputs)