Winning Indians axe Sehwag for remaining Tests Dropped: Virender Sehwag. Mohali: At his exhilarating best he has been as destructive as any batsmen in the history of the game, but Virender Sehwag may well have blazed his last boundary in Test cricket. The 34-year-old India opener was on Thursday dropped from the hosts' 14-man squad for the third and fourth Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, which they lead 2-0. It may spell the end of Sehwag's brilliant career, becoming the latest member of India's golden generation to depart. While India have dominated the series, Sehwag has scored just 27 runs in three innings. He entered the contest with Australia under pressure to retain his spot, with only one century in the past 28 months in Tests indicating a decline. Sehwag's reflexes and hand-eye co-ordination appear to have let him down with his cheap dismissals against Australia in Chennai and Hyderabad. There is also the issue of eyesight problems, which prompted him to wear glasses for the first time in international cricket in this series. There have also been suggestions of a rift between him and captain M.S. Dhoni that re-surfaced last year but have been denied strongly by Sehwag. If it is the end it will be eulogised as a legendary career. A nightmare for opposition attacks, Sehwag bludgeoned 23 centuries in his 104 Tests, but among them were two triple hundreds and four double tons. And he got them fast. Sehwag's career strike rate of 82.33 is unmatched by any batsman of the past century who played more than 30 Tests. Only Adam Gilchrist, with a strike rate of 81.95 in 96 Tests, comes close. He struggled on India's most recent tour of Australia but his glorious 151 in Adelaide to secure a draw there in 2008, in what happened to be Gilchrist's last day as a Test player, will not quickly be forgotten. Sehwag also owns the highest one-day international score of all time, a record achieved with his unbeaten 219 against West Indies in December 2011. In his place openers Ajinkya Rahane and Shikhar Dhawan were named in the 14-man India squad as well as Hyderabad century-maker Murali Vijay. India squad: M.S. Dhoni (c), Sachin Tendulkar, Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.