Dubai: One of India's greatest cricketers,&nbsp;Virender Sehwag on Monday said he will draw curtains on his&nbsp;international career soon as he confirmed his participation in&nbsp;next year's Masters Champions League 2020, where only retired&nbsp;cricketers can play.
Sehwag's decision comes only two days after one of his&nbsp;contemporaries Zaheer Khan decided to call time on his career.&nbsp;
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/oct/sehwag-retires.jpg" alt="Virender Sehwag" />
A day before his 37th birthday, Sehwag was today unveiled&nbsp;at the launch ceremony of the veterans 2020 league in Dubai.&nbsp;
When Sehwag, who was present alongside Brian Lara, Graeme&nbsp;Smith and Azhar Mahmood at the launch, was asked how he could&nbsp;play as MCL is a retired cricketers' league, Sehwag said "If I&nbsp;am not retired I will not play. I will go back to India and&nbsp;announce my retirement."
MCL is supposed to be played in February next year, which&nbsp;means that Sehwag will complete his Ranji Trophy commitments&nbsp;with Haryana before joining the veterans' league.&nbsp;
In a glorious international career spanning over 12&nbsp;years, Sehwag played 104 Tests scoring 8586 runs at an&nbsp;impressive average of 49.34, hitting 23 centuries and 32&nbsp;half-centuries.
He is the only triple centurion in Tests for India having&nbsp;scored career-best knock of 319 against Pakistan at Multan,&nbsp;which also is an Indian record. He is also one of those rare&nbsp;batsmen to have scored two triple ton with his next one (309)&nbsp;coming against South Africa.&nbsp;
In 251 ODIs, he accumulated 8273 runs at an average of&nbsp;35.05 and scored 15 hundreds apart from hitting 38 fifties. In 19 Twenty20 Internationals, he managed 394 runs with&nbsp;two half-centuries.&nbsp;He has been a part of two World Cup winning teams under Mahendra Singh Dhoni's leadership --- 2007 World T20 in South Africa and the ICC Cricket World Cup in India.&nbsp;

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