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1Women are probably never going to be equal in the male-dominated world of sport. Women's sport simply doesn't seem to have the prestige
attributed to men's. You only have to look at women's football (soccer) to see that the money lies in men's football. Television rights, sponsorship
deals, recognition all seem to come a lot easier to men's football. I'm not even a big football fan, but I could name a couple of male footballers. I
couldn't name a single female footballer, despite the fact that England's female football team performs significantly better than the male team. But
why aren't more people interested in watching women playing football? Perhaps because it is less aggressive, less interesting to watch, maybe. Or
could it be that when sports started to become professionalized in the twentieth century it was an all-male affair. It was men who developed
organisations to monitor sports, it was men who controlled how resources were spent, and it was men who formulated rules and regulations. This
certainly must have had an impact. This was set aside the fact that it was regarded as unfeminine for women to want to partake in sporting
activity. Sport was regarded as a male activity which women could only be spectator to. This mentality clearly lingers on, to an extent;
professional sportswomen simply cannot match the standard of sportsmen for many people.2With India¶s population, it surprises many that India
is not a force at the Olympics

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,[3][4] is one of the leading batsmen in the
Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler. He played his first One
Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test cricket team in 2001. In April 2009, Sehwag became the only Indian to be honored as the
Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his performance in 2008,[5] subsequently becoming the first player of any nationality to retain the
award for 2009.[6]

Sehwag holds multiple records including the highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket (319), which was also the fastest triple century in the
history of international cricket (reached 300 off only 278 balls) as well as the fastest 250 by any batsman (in 207 balls against Sri Lanka on 3
December 2009 at the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai). Sehwag also holds the distinction of being one of four batsmen in the world to have ever
surpassed 300 twice in Test cricket, and the only one to score two triple centuries and take a five-wicket innings haul.[7] In March 2009, Sehwag
smashed the fastest century ever scored by an Indian in ODI cricket, from 60 balls.[8]

Sehwag was appointed as vice-captain of the Indian team under Rahul Dravid in October 2005 but due to poor form, he was later replaced by V.
V. S. Laxman in December 2006 as Test vice-captain. In January 2007, Sehwag was dropped from the ODI team and later from the Test team as
well.[9] During his term as vice-captain, Sehwag skippered the team in place of injured Dravid in 2 ODIs and 1 Test. Following his return to form
in 2008 and the retirement of Anil Kumble, Sehwag has been reappointed as the vice-captain for both Tests and ODIs. By early 2009, Sehwag
[10]
had reestablished himself as one of the best performing batsmen in ODI cricket.