For 14 years, Virender Sehwag has set cold fear into the hearts of bowling attacks all over the world, culminating in Thursday’s brutal yet beautiful innings of 219 against the West Indies in Indore.

Having cut Andre Russell to the boundary to go past Sachin Tendulkar's 200, Virender Sehwag was celebrating his record-breaking feat with a fist-pump, when he saw something strange.

What separates Virender Sehwag from everyone else is that he plays each ball on its merit, and usually thinks each ball merits a boundary. That is why it will be no surprise if he crosses the 200-run mark in ODIs again.

After being at the centre of the nerve-shredding draw in Mumbai, R Ashwin wouldn't have gambled on being run out in the very next game, in incredibly similar fashion.

Carlton Baugh had a wry, suggestive smile when he dropped Sachin Tendulkar off Devendra Bishoo on the third afternoon of the third cricket Test here. The West Indies wicketkeeper conveyed his sneaky feeling that the great man, perhaps, was destined to get his hundredth international hundred on his home ground.

If the half-empty stadiums during England's tour to India was not a sign, a jam-packed F1 circuit for the inaugural edition of the Indian Grand Prix made it even clearer that the country is perhaps, undergoing a sense of cricketing fatigue. The series against West Indies though, has the hidden potential to 're-generate' the interest.