“Madan used to bring up Sehwag’s name at every selection committee meeting chaired by Chandu Borde. But he was never considered. Madan came to know that Borde and me share a good equation.u00a0

So, he tried to push Sehwag’s case through me. After a lot of persuasion, Viru was included in the squad of 15 for the ODI series against Zimbabwe in 2000.