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Virender Sehwag

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Virender Sehwag (, born 20 October 1978) is a former Indian cricketer who represented India from 1999 to 2013. Widely regarded as one of the most destructive openers and one of the greatest batsman of his era, he played for Delhi Capitals in IPL and Delhi and Haryana in Indian domestic cricket. He played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test side in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Virender Sehwag has received more than 5,733,108 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Virender Sehwag is the 28th most popular cricketer (down from 22nd in 2019), the 1,276th most popular biography from India (down from 1,115th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Indian Cricketer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 33.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Virender Sehwags by language

Over the past year Virender Sehwag has had the most page views in the with 876,514 views, followed by Hindi (51,786), and Bengali (6,010). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Maithili (117.15%), English (74.49%), and Japanese (68.11%)

Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers, Virender Sehwag ranks 28 out of 136. Before him are William Donne, Brian Lara, Harbhajan Singh, Mithali Raj, Syed Kirmani, and James Anderson. After him are Wasim Akram, Chris Gayle, C. B. K. Beachcroft, Diana Edulji, Yuvraj Singh, and Allan Border.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Virender Sehwag ranks 732. Before him are Gorka Verdugo, Nick Berg, Jorge Martín Núñez, Harel Levy, Ryōta Tsuzuki, and Mehdi Baala. After him are Yang Pu, José Luis Abajo, Isaac Okoronkwo, Hiroki Ito, Washington Luiz Mascarenhas Silva, and Stereo Mike.

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In India

Among people born in India, Virender Sehwag ranks 1,276 out of 1,861. Before him are Karen David (1979), Himesh Reshammiya (1973), Navneet Aditya Waiba (null), Neeraj Chopra (1997), Ekta Kapoor (1975), and Randeep Hooda (1976). After him are Pooja Hegde (1990), Nandita Das (1969), Poonam Pandey (1991), Sidharth Malhotra (1985), Rituparna Sengupta (1970), and P. V. Sindhu (1995).

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Among CRICKETERS In India

Among cricketers born in India, Virender Sehwag ranks 14. Before him are Rahul Dravid (1973), Sourav Ganguly (1972), Anil Kumble (1970), Harbhajan Singh (1980), Mithali Raj (1982), and Syed Kirmani (1949). After him are Diana Edulji (1956), Yuvraj Singh (1981), Mohammed Shami (1990), Shikhar Dhawan (1985), VVS Laxman (1974), and K. L. Rahul (1992).

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