It took almost four decades for a batsman to score the first double century in one day international cricket, but less than two years for the second. Virender Sehwag, the batsman most touted to Sachin Tendulkar's record for highest individual ODI score to break, not just break - it is broken and the bar so high that it is difficult for anyone to imagine, apart from Sehwag himself, raising higher.
Unlike in Gwalior Tendulkar, Sehwag was not much time as he drove to 200 in Indore. He was there in the 44th over and had 219 from 149 balls by the time he was fired in the 47th. And in one of cricket's strange coincidences, were both ODI centuries scored twice in the same Indian state - Madhya Pradesh - at locations less than 500 km apart.
Sehwag led India to 418 for performances in May, their highest ODI total, and sealed victory in the five-match series against West Indies. It was an innings of Sehwag feature of the approach to saving. He hit his second ball for four and just unstoppable. He took too many risks, surviving two run-out chances and are two catches, but thundered on, ensuring India's run rate remained above the 15th over after seven. Sehwag is the only out-of-character moment came in the 20th over when he ducked to avoid running out. Sehwag never dive. It was a sign that he was determined to stay the course. He went to 50 from 41 balls, to 100 from 69 balls, to 150 from 112 and 200 of the past 140. The record was broken with a devastating cut that speed to the reverse-point line, and he celebrated with an aggressive fist pump before breaking into a smile.
For this game, and after each of the previous three, Sehwag had admitted that the top order failures, he has contributed to, was the reason India had struggled in their pursuits. Sehwag had a duck in the previous match in Ahmedabad, where India lost, but led by example today.
India did two things different about the Holkar Cricket Stadium. They chose to bat first in the series and also opened with their strongest combination, Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, Parthiv Patel, pushing down the order. The result of these decisions was an opening partnership of 176 that started smoothly, start, and gathered the momentum of a run before it was finally beaten train ended, inevitably, by a run-out.
A strong crowd, the trend of resurging turnout at the Home ODIS and they cheered the first line in the second over when Sehwag's first ball is tapped Ravi Rampaul for four to one welcome that he would give a number of other West Indian bowlers. Sehwag looked dangerous from the start. Gambhir not. After making only three from 15 balls, Gambhir finally the latitude he needed Kemar Roach and cut to the point boundary.
Both batsmen could have been dismissed on 20, though. Sehwag had given up hope of making his ground, but Kieron Pollard missed the stumps of points, and Andre Russell dropped Gambhir in his follow through. Gambhir began sending, and often cut off by the drive side, go on field players' heads and placing great riders of the border. Seven of his nine fours were in this region. India ended the mandatory Powerplay at 63 for 0.
The field scattered after that, but it did not matter. Sehwag and Gambhir scored 45 runs between overs 11 and 15. This passage began with the hoisting of the first ball Sehwag off spinner Sunil Narine of the over long-on boundary. He first launched in Darren Sammy's have an extra cover. This passage ended with Sehwag hammering Narine again, this time in the stands over deep midwicket.
The field came to the bowling Powerplay and Gambhir Roach immediately cut by point, and then dabbed a few of his half century from 51 balls. The smash-and-dab combo was a feature of the partnership. Sehwag to his hundred with a bright cut, shot in the air, brushing the fingertips of leaping fielder at point to speed up the border. The next ball, he ran out Gambhir, a direct hit from Samuels. Visibly angry with himself, Sehwag continued to punish West Indies.
When he hit fours, Sehwag prefers to square of the wicket, flicking the eye and he received numerous deliveries on the pads, and opening the face to pepper the backward-point boundary. When he was six, he was usually right, focusing on the arc between midwicket and long-on. He hit 25 fours and seven sixes in all. At 170, in the 38th over, Sehwag scooped Rampaul to cover, where Sammy had a dolly, leaving the bowler's desperate.
The rest of the innings was a blurring of boundaries and landmarks. Suresh Raina got to his fifty off 42 balls. India reached 300 in 39.1 overs. Sehwag broke his personal best - 175 against Bangladesh in the World Cup - with a flick of the square leg boundary. He passed 8000 ODI runs with a chip on the fielder at short fine leg. That shot took him from 191 to 195, and soon he was to cut Russell to India to send in the recording. When Sehwag was dismissed - Pollard loft to the substitute carrier Anthony Martin at long off - most of the West Indian fielders came from near and far to shake his hand.
Sehwag not out to get to the field - the only blemish on his performance - and looked out the dressing room as West Indies top-order batsmen crashed and burned amidst a flurry of shots. Debutant spinner India's Rahul Sharma legs beaten with the last ball of each of his first three overs in international cricket, to bowl Marlon Samuels, Danza Hyatt and Pollard leave West Indies reeling at 100 for 5.
Rahul, the teams in India since the house ODIS against England, but remained on the bench, bowled a variety of supplies. He sent legbreaks, googlies topspin and partners at different speeds, but it was a quicker delivery that brought him success.
Samuels tried to get a quick Topspinner cut, but the bottom-side on his stumps. Hyatt then stepped out of the fold, but was yorked by fast legbreak. The ball thrown outside leg stump and spun between the pads of the batsman to bowl to him. Pollard was the next to go, swinging over the line and missing a Topspinner that cut stump.
After losing more wickets, West Indies decided to bat out time instead of playing shots, and the match ended in stark contrast to how it started - meekly. Denesh Ramdin, however, was 96, his best score and the highest by a West Indies wicketkeeper in ODIS. His 64-run with No. 11 Sunil Narine just kept India in the field longer than they wanted.
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