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Cricketer Of The Year
This is just about the worst way to analyze Sehwag's career (or anyones career for that matter), and tells me you haven't really watched or followed his actual career at all. 10 and 9 innings are definitely not tiny but hardly big enough to really make a full fledged judgement on any player. Also just ftr he average almost 47 IN Australia, the 41 you are getting is both home and away average against Aus (which means he did better against Australia IN Aus rather than at home).
Sehwag first tourned NZ in 2002 in what were some of the greenest wickets in the last 15 years, he was new at the time against a high quality seam attack in their own conditions, and Sehwag was not the only batsmen to fail on that tour (from both sides). Then Sehwag toured NZ a second time in 09 at his absolute peak, and instead of struggling against swing or seam he simply got out trying to over dominate and hit spinners/seamers out of the attack.
Same thing goes for his England tours, his first tour was in 2002 where he played 6 innings averaging almost 40. Then he toured in 2011 after having surgery and because India were getting smashed they brought him in the team purely based on reputation, even though he barely had any power in his hands, quite naturally he didn't do very well and that's how he ended up averaging mid 20's in England.
Then comes SA, that's the only place where I would concede Sehwag actually struggled, particularly in 06, and then in 2011 he should have scored more than he did, because he would smash a few and then just get out.
Sehwag not scoring as much runs as he should have in those countries definitely goes against him, but the reason for not doing so is not simply because he had no feet or that he couldn't play seam or swing, but because the kind of player he was he would play the same way regardless of conditions.
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