Sehwag slams ODI double ton; smashes Sachin's record

Sehwag breaks ODI record with 219


Indore: Virender Sehwag smashed the highest individual score in one-day internationals on Thursday, hitting 219 as India piled on 418/5 in the fourth match of the series against the West Indies.
The Delhi opener plundered 25 boundaries and seven sixes during his 149-ball blitz, joining compatriot Sachin Tendulkar as the only batsmen in history to score double-centuries in the 50-over format.

Sehwag moved past Tendulkar's 200 not out -- against South Africa in Gwalior last year -- in the 44th over when, on 197, he cut Andre Russell to the point fence.
He was finally dismissed in the 47th over when he was caught in the deep off Kieron Pollard and was clapped off the field by the entire West Indies team and some 30,000 jubilant home fans.

Sehwag's blistering knock helped India notch their highest one-day total, surpassing the 414/7 they made against Sri Lanka in Rajkot in 2009.

It was Sehwag's 15th three-figure knock in one-day cricket and the first since making 175 against Bangladesh in the opening match of the World Cup in Dhaka in February this year.

Sehwag, who is captaining India in the series in the absence of the rested Mahendra Singh Dhoni, had managed just 46 runs in the previous three matches.





                                                                                   

                                                                           

List of international cricket centuries by Virender Sehwag

No      Score       Against            Venue


1              100                 New Zealand                 Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo

2              126                 England                          R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

3              114*               West Indies                    Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground,
                                                                              Rajkot

4              108                 New Zealand                 McLean Park, Napier

5              112                 New Zealand                 Eden Park, Auckland

6              130                 New Zealand                 Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium,
                                                                             Hyderabad

7              108                 Pakistan                         Nehru Stadium, Kochi

8              114                 Bermuda                        Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain

9              119                 Pakistan                         National Stadium, Karachi

10            116                 Sri Lanka                       R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

11            125*               New Zealand                 Seddon Park, Hamilton

12            146                Sri Lanka                        Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground,
                                                                             Rajkot

13            110                New Zealand                  Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium,
                                                                             Dambulla

14            175                Bangladesh                     Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium,
                                                                              Dhaka
                                                                           
15            219                West Indies                    Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore