MUST WATCH: When Virender Sehwag broke Sachin Tendulkar's record with epic 219

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New Delhi: Way back in 2010, Sachin Tendulkar became the first player to hit 200 in One Day International cricket, against South Africa at Gwalior.

But the record lasted little more than a year as his great contemportary Virender Sehwag the then highest individual ODI record with a scintaliting 219 off 149 balls laced with 25 fours and seven sixes.

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India, after posting 418, beat West Indies by 153 runs at Indore.

Tendulkar's unbeaten 200 off 147 balls. And he hit 25 fours and three sixes.

So far five players have got the distinction of getting to 200-run mark, of which three are Indians. Prodigious Rohit Sharma has got two 200s in his name.

Others being West Indians Chris Gayle and New Zealand's Martin Guptill.