Virender Sehwag was bestowed upon a huge honour when a gate at the Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi was named after him. On Tuesday, he cut the red ribbon, which marked the opening of the gate. It was indeed a wonderful gesture by the DDCA, but they had made a huge blunder in one of the facts about the stylish right-handed batsman. Right next to the gate, there were a few achievements of Sehwag mentioned, including his statistics in Tests, ODIs and T20Is. However, the blunder came a little below, where it was mentioned that Sehwag was the only Indian cricketer to score a triple century.

While it is true that Sehwag was the first Indian batsman to score a triple ton, but he certainly is not the only Indian. Sehwag scored his first triple hundred against Pakistan in Multan (309) and then 4 years later, he slammed his second triple ton (319) against South Africa in Chennai.

Here is the blunder by DDCA:

Karun Nair also scored a triple century, which came against England in Chennai on December 2016. However, Sehwag is one of the four batsmen in the world to have scored two triple hundreds. Only Don Bradman, Chris Gayle and Brian Lara have scored two triple centuries in their careers.

The DDCA will have to rectify this error from their part as it would be nothing short of an embarrassment for the Indian legend to have a wrong stat about him next to a gate named after him. Sehwag made his international debut back in 1999 in an ODI, and went on to play 104 Tests, 251 ODIs and 19 T20Is for India.