The emergence and evolution of Virender Sehwag as a batsman is the stuff of dreams. Pradeep Magazine interviews the dasher from Najafgarh in the Hindustan Times, where he recalls his earliest memories, his family's emigration closer to Delhi and other events that shaped his destiny.

The oldest memory Virender Sehwag has of his childhood is a borrowed one. “My mother tells me that when I was one or two years old, I would calm down once a bat or a ball was given to me. I would cry for hours if my wish was not fulfilled,” he says.

In Sehwag’s narration of his mother’s memory, lies a belief that he may have been destiny’s child, born to dominate the cricketing world one day.