Happy birthday, Viru! Highlights from Sehwag’s career as he turns 38

Virender Sehwag celebrates scoring a double hundred during the 4th ODI between India and West Indies at Holkar Stadium in Indore on December 8, 2011. (Santosh Harhare/HT Photo)

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Virender Sehwag celebrates scoring a double hundred during the 4th ODI between India and West Indies at Holkar Stadium in Indore on December 8, 2011. (Santosh Harhare/HT Photo)

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Sehwag is congratulated by West Indies’ Kemar Roach for his double century. (Santosh Harhare/HT Photo)

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Sachin Tendulkar (R) and Sehwag gesture during a training session during the India-England home series in November 2012. (AFP)

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Sehwag and Dhoni share a lighter moment at a practice session during the 2011 World Cup in India. (Mohd. Zakir/HT Photo)

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Sehwag entertains the crowd during an otherwise dull fourth day of the first Test match between India and England at Chidambaram Stadium at Chennai on December 14, 2008. (Santosh Harhare/HT Photo)

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Sehwag scored 23 centuries and 32 half-centuries in 104-match Test career. (Subhankar Chakraborty/HT Photo)

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Sehwag celebrates his century on the opening day of the first Test against England at Motera in Ahmedabad on November 15, 2012. (PTI)

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Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir share a laugh after the drawn second Test against New Zealand in Hyderabad on November 16, 2010. (Mohd Zakir/HT Photo)

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Sehwag at a BCCI award ceremony in Mumbai in February 2009. (Anshuman Poyrekar/HT Photo)

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Sehwag receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna from then president APJ Abdul Kalam on August 29, 2003. (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)

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Sehwag celebrates his century for Kings XI Punjab during the IPL match against Chennai Super Kings at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on May 30, 2014. (Kunal Patil/HT Photo)

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Virender Sehwag with his two sons after he was facilitated by the BCCI at Feroz Shah Kotla before the start the of India South Africa first Test match in New Delhi on December 3, 2015. Sehwag was facilitated following his international retirement before the start of the series. (Vipin Kumar/HT Photo)

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Sehwag, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni wait for the presentation after day five of the fourth Test match between Australia and India at Adelaide Oval on January 28, 2012. (Getty Images)

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Sehwag celebrates scoring a century on debut during the first Test match between South Africa and India in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in November 2001. (Getty Images)

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Sehwag looks up to the heavens in celebration as a TV screen flashes congratulations for scoring a triple ton, his second, on the third day of the first Test against South Africa in Chennai on March 28, 2008. (AP)

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Virender Sehwag celebrates his wedding anniversary with his wife Aarti and their son in Durban, South Africa, on April 24, 2009. (PTI)