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
