5. Virender Sehwag:

Here’s a man who knew only one way of approaching cricket -Sehwag’s way. He had his own technique-primarily on the back of a wonderful hand-eye coordination. Leaving a bad ball unpunished is a sin in Sehwag’s book. He toyed with the spinners and fast bowlers were rarely allowed to settle.

Although he launched himself as a middle-order batsman with a hundred in South Africa, he will go down as one of the greatest ever test opening batsmen thanks to his exploits ever since he donned the opening role.

Bowlers and opposition captains often went clueless and ran out of ideas-such was his domination when on song Most of his centuries were daddy hundreds; he certainly knew how to make it big. He almost had a third triple century under his belt!

He had answers even to the backup plans of opponents and had it in him to turn the game on its head in a matter of one session. An average of around 50 and a magical strike rate of 82 meant Indian bowlers had more time to pick 20 wickets.