Top-5 fastest double centuries in ODIs

#2 Virender Sehwag (140 balls - final score 219 off 148)

A year after Sachin Tendulkar assailed the peak, Virender Sehwag followed suit, walking in the footsteps of his long-time mentor. Against a hapless West Indian attack, Sehwag hammered the then-highest individual score, bettering Tendulkar's tally by 19 runs.

Around 500 kilometres away from where Tendulkar accomplished the feat, Virender Sehwag reached the milestone too, powering his side to a mammoth score of 418 with a 149-ball brutal knock.

Be it the steep pace of Kemar Roach or the mystery spin of Sunil Narine, Sehwag did not hold back.

“I was playing my shots throughout the innings, but I started thinking about 200 in the batting powerplay, and when Sammy dropped the catch I thought ‘God is with me’,” he later said.