Sehwag joins a select band

Virender Sehwag [ Images ] on Thursday joined the select band of players who registered a win in their first ever Test as India's [ Images ] captain.

Sehwag is sixth Indian player to do so, which includes the names of Polly Umrigar, Sunil Gavaskar [ Images ], Ravi Shastri, Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ] and Sourav Ganguly [ Images ].

Shastri - the previous record-holder for the biggest win by an Indian on captaincy debut - never captained India in a Test again.

The 259 runs win is India's biggest against Sri Lanka and fourth biggest of all time as is evident from the following table:

Margin	Test	Opponent	Venue	Season
280 runs	3rd	South Africa [ Images ]	Kanpur	1996-97
279 runs	2nd	England [ Images ]	Leeds	1986
272 runs	4th	New Zealand	Auckland	1967-68
259 runs	3rd	Sri Lanka	Ahmedabad	2005-06
255 runs	4th	West Indies	Chennai	1987-88
235 runs	2nd	Sri Lanka	Colombo SSC	1993-94
222 runs	3rd	Australia	Melbourne [ Images ]	1977-78
216 runs	3rd	New Zealand	Chennai	1976-77
212 runs	2nd	Pakistan	Delhi	1998-99

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