Sehwag posts 1,000 in 2004

Virender Sehwag, during his innings of 164 on day four of the first Test against South Africa at Kanpur on Tuesday, completed 1,000 runs in Test matches in the calendar year 2004.

He became the seventh Indian, on the 13th occasion, to perform the feat of aggregating 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year.

Remarkably 62.74% of Sehwag's runs have come in boundaries.

Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar have both performed the feat four times each. Gavaskar also holds the record of highest run-aggregate (1407) in a calendar year.

Sehwag's performance in Test cricket in 2004:

Opp	Venue	Runs	Balls	4s	6s
v Aus	Sydney	72 (1st Inn)	115	10	1
		47 (2nd Inn)	50	8	0
v Pak	Multan	309	375	39	6
		DNB
v Pak	Lahore	39	43	6	1
		90	134	14	0
v Pak	Rawalpindi	0	1
		DNB
v Aus	Bangalore	39	57	6	0
		0	7	0	0
v Aus	Chennai	155	221	21	0
		12*	10	3	0
v Aus	Nagpur	22	20	4	0
		58	94	8	0
v Aus	Mumbai	8	11	1	0
		5	14	1	0
v SA	Kanpur	164	228	24	2

Summary: 9 Tests, 16 Inns, 1020 runs, Avg: 68.00, 100s: 3, 50s: 3, SR: 73.91

Indians with 1,000 runs in a calendar year:

Runs	Batsman	Year	Tests	Inns	NO	Hs	Ave.	100	50
1407	SM Gavaskar	1979	17	26	0	221	54.12	4	8
1392	SR Tendulkar	2002	16	26	1	193	55.68	4	5
1388	GR Viswanath	1979	17	26	2	179	57.83	5	6
1357	R Dravid	2002	16	26	3	217	59.00	5	5
1310	SM Gavaskar	1983	18	32	4	236*	46.79	5	5
1099	SM Gavaskar	1978	8	14	2	205	91.58	5	3
1088	SR Tendulkar	1999	10	19	3	217	68.00	5	4
1077	M Amarnath	1983	14	24	1	120	46.83	4	7
1044	DB Vengsarkar	1979	17	26	3	146*	45.39	4	6
1024	SM Gavaskar	1976	11	20	1	156	53.89	4	4
1020	V Sehwag	2004	9	16	1	309	68.00	3	3
1003	SR Tendulkar	2001	10	18	2	155	62.69	3	6
1000	SR Tendulkar	1997	12	17	1	169	62.50	4	3