Sachin Tendulkar, known as the god of cricket, created history on February 24. On this day in 2010, Sachin Tendulkar scored the first double century in ODI cricket. Surprisingly, on the same date i.e. February 24, this record was broken five years later. 📅 It was none other than West Indies star batsman Chris Gayle who did that. Now let's know about their double centuries.. 😲
Talking about Sachin Tendulkar's double century, he created this history on 24 February 2010 against South Africa. No batsman has scored a double century in ODI cricket before Sachin. Sachin smashed Saeed Anwar's record by hitting 147 balls in his innings. In this match held at Gwalior, Sachin hit 25 fours and 3 sixes in 147 balls. 🏏
In his innings, Sachin Tendulkar reached the score of 191 runs in just 45th over. However, in the last five overs he bowled just 9 balls to complete his double century. Because at that time Mahendra Singh Dhoni was pouring runs at the other end. He scored 68 runs off just 35 balls with 7 fours and 4 sixes. 🏏
Now if this story goes forward five years.. Chris Gayle created a sensation and broke Sachin Tendulkar's record. On 24 February 2015, Chris Gayle scored a double century against Zimbabwe in the ODI World Cup. He became the first batsman to score a double century in an ODI World Cup. Chris Gayle scored 215 runs off just 147 balls with 10 fours and 16 sixes. 🏏
Chris Gayle scored his last 50 off just 12 balls. But it took just 33 balls to complete the second last century. It is remarkable that these two historic innings came on the same date and went down in history. 🏏 So far 12 double centuries have been recorded in the ODI format. It is noteworthy that seven of them were done by Indian batsmen. 🇮🇳
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