On This Day: Virender Sehwag joins ODI 200-run membership after Sachin Tendulkar

India have produced some legendary batting stalwarts through the years. However there are a couple of particular breeds of gamers who made a mark on the planet of cricket on a special stage. One such participant who redefined the strategy to batting be it within the restricted over codecs or the Take a look at cricket was none apart from Virender Sehwag. The ‘Sultan of Najafgarh’ modified the best way an opener was historically checked out in Indian cricket.

Therefore, OnThisDay (December 8) within the yr 2011, the explosive batter etched his title in a particular elite listing of batter in ODI cricket. Fascinating sufficient, Sehwag began his profession as a center order batter and modelled his approach of taking part in round his idol, Sachin Tendulkar. However in a while, the previous Skipper Sourav Ganguly, identified for his exemplary imaginative and prescient, pushed him to play as an opener and the remaining grew to become historical past.

The primary man on the planet to attain a double century within the historical past of Males’s ODI cricket was the legendary Tendulkar, who smacked South Africa all around the park for enjoyable to breach the surreal triple-figure mark within the limited-overs format. Notably, he performed an impressive unbeaten knock (200*) in Gwalior within the yr 2010. What was initially wanting unimaginable to breach by some other batter, Sehwag stepped as much as righty justify his batting calibre and made the ‘God of Cricket’ proud by surpassing his unbelievable feat.

For the unversed, On This Day, Virender Sehwag went all weapons blazing towards West Indies on the Holkar Stadium, in Indore, and produced a memorable double-century innings of 219 runs. Throughout his marathon knock, Sehwag confronted 149 balls and smacked seven sixes and 25 fours, respectively. Consequently, Sehwag grew to become the second batter to have scored a double century within the ODI historical past after Tendulkar.

India posted their highest staff rating of their ODI historical past

Amongst different notable performances, Gautam Gambhir performed a superb supporting position for Sehwag initially along with his 67-run knock. Afterward, Suresh Raina offered the ultimate flourish along with his half-century. Virender Sehwag lastly obtained out solely within the 47^th over by Kieron Pollard. Nevertheless, it appeared too late for the guests as by the top of the 50 overs, Group India had posted a mammoth 418 runs. The truth is, this rating stays the very best staff rating by Group India within the historical past of the ODIs.

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Talking of West Indies’ bowling, other than Pollard, Andre Russell and Kemar Roach managed to choose a wicket every. In reply, the Caribbean facet suffered an early jolt within the second over itself within the type of Kieran Powell. The remainder, beneath the run-chase stress of an almost impossible-looking goal, the West Indian facet crumbled quickly. The one batter who mustered some braveness to indicate some resistance and put up a combat was Denesh Ramdin, who fell in need of a valiant century (96 runs) by simply 4 runs.

Within the bowling division for the hosts, star all rounder Ravindra Jadeja and leg spinner Rahul Sharma took 3-wicket hauls. Ultimately, West Indies had been bowled out for 265 as India gained the sport by an enormous margin of 153 runs.

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