‘Hope someone will do a Bisla for us’

New Delhi: He relinquished the Delhi DareDevils captaincy after last season but Virender Sehwag feels that his decision will have no bearing on his approach as he again shoulders the burden of being the batting mainstay of the franchise in the sixth edition of the IPL.

“I don’t think it matters whether I am captaining the side or not. Captaincy has never affected my game. I have never ever felt the pressure on my batting while leading the side,” Sehwag said.

“I have never felt any pressure as captain, my approach to batting has always remained the same,” he said when asked whether Mahela Jayawardene donning the mantle of captain will lessen the burden on him.

For Sehwag, captaincy and performance are two separate entities which should not be mixed with each other.

“I have always maintained that captaincy and performance are two separate issues altogether. If you talk about pressures of captaincy, then I had scored five consecutive half-centuries during the last edition of IPL and the highest number of runs for Delhi DareDevils,” he said.

Sehwag’s five half-centuries in a row (he scored 495 runs last season) is an IPL record but he reckons that it might be surpassed this year. “Someone can break it this year,” he said.

Sehwag admitted that Kevin Pietersen, who is out with knee injury will be missed a lot as his contribution was immense in helping the team reach the last-four stage in the fifth edition of the cash rich league. This edition will be doubly important for Sehwag as he tries to make a comeback into the Indian team and he feels that any player on his day can win the championship for his team.

“If one guy can play particularly well on a given day, he can very well win the trophy for his team. Take Manvinder Singh Bisla as an example.

“He played a superb knock in the IPL final and KKR won the trophy. I am hopeful that someone will do it for the Delhi DareDevils this year,” he added.