Top 10 brutal innings in ODI cricket

2. Virender Sehwag (219 vs West Indies, 2012)

The Master set the mark, and the shishya went past it with his usual buccaneering ways – both landmarks were set in the same state: Madhya Pradesh.

A little over two years ago, Sachin Tendulkar scored the first double hundred in men’s limited-overs cricket – a record that one hoped could never be broken by anyone else.

But Virender Sehwag, Sachin’s opening partner and a power hitter in his own right, had other ideas.

Against the West Indies, the Delhi batsman played a blistering innings – he set the pace by hitting his second ball for four, and never looked back. He even deposited wily off spinner Sunil Narine’s first ball into the stands, shocking the rest of the Windies squad, before thumping Darren Sammy over extra cover.

Favouring the arc between mid-wicket and long-on for the big hits, Sehwag peppered the backward point fence for the boundaries, preferring to play square of the wicket for the ground strokes. He equaled, then broke, Sachin’s mark with crisply struck fours, and eventually fell for 219.

Denesh Ramdin’s heroics went in vain as the West Indies crumbled under the Najafgarh Bomber’s assault to surrender by 153 runs.