An ODI Double century?! | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar unbeaten 200* |

[Varun]

Next double century is Hughes. Without a doubt.

No!! Sreesanth would make it!

 

[CaptainOZ]

Sehwag or Dilshan. They have days where they are freakishly great, but Tendulkar is a freak of nature, which was the same term that was used to describe Don Bradman.

 

[King Pietersen]

I don't think we'll see another Double Century in an ODi anytime soon. It will happen, but it won't for a while. Double hundreds in OD cricket as a whole are very rare events. There have only been 10 in the history of the game. The top scores in an OD game are:

268 	AD Brown 	Surrey v Glamorgan  2002
222* 	RG Pollock 	Eastern Province v Border 	1974/75
207 	Mohammad Ali 	Pakistan Customs v Defence Housing Authority 2004/05
206 	AI Kallicharran 	Warwickshire v Oxfordshire  1984
204* 	Khalid Latif 	Karachi Dolphins v Quetta Bears	 2008/09
203 	AD Brown 	Surrey v Hampshire  1997
202* 	A Barrow 	Natal v South Africa African XI  1975/76
201 	VJ Wells 	Leicestershire v Berkshire  1996
201* 	RS Bopara 	Essex v Leicestershire  2008
200* 	SR Tendulkar 	India v South Africa  2009/10

I don't think we'll see another International one for a few years at least. List A double centuries do seem to be getting more frequent events, there have been 5 since 2000.

 

[hacker]

wow what a player Sachin :hpraise

 

[Params7]

Still can't believe it.


200 Barrier has been broken!!

 

[pcfan123]

I don't think we'll see another International one for a few years at least. List A double centuries do seem to be getting more frequent events, there have been 5 since 2000.

I hope we don't see another one for a long time, as much fun as it was, for ODI cricket to survive we need more balance between bat and ball.

 

[AkshayS]

I hope we don't see another one for a long time, as much fun as it was, for ODI cricket to survive we need more balance between bat and ball.

true said Hmarka.
I also don't think a point in getting 200s frequently. It will just ruin the fun of ODIs.

 

[Master Khan]

scoring 200 in ODI is not easy, so seeing then frequently will just not happen

 

[irottev]

It'll be an Indian. Or at least one one of those disgusting dead road pitches they have over there.

 

[TheGreemSim]

On ya Sachin, didn't know the old guy still had it!

 

[BKB1991]

All I can gurantee is, the next one is likely to be at India as well

 

[CaptainOZ]

It'll be an Indian. Or at least one one of those disgusting dead road pitches they have over there.

and because there's so little chance a NZ batsmen could do it.

 

[pcfan123]

It'll be an Indian. Or at least one one of those disgusting dead road pitches they have over there.

Or it will be at Napier

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and because there's so little chance a NZ batsmen could do it.

 

[irottev]

and because there's so little chance a NZ batsmen could do it.

Actually there's a reasonable chance given some of the flatish decks and most importantly small grounds we have over here. It does demand a boundary dominated innings though as twos and 3s are hard to get here.

 

[CaptainOZ]

I've watched that one before. As you know, it's a different mindset in the T20. In a T20 you gotta slog from the outset. ODI is about batting the full 50 overs to get the 200, as Tendulkar demonstrated.

If you come into ODI matches and bat like it's a T20, you're not supporting your team total as much as you're being selfish (plus you'd get out cheaply more often). Sehwag sometimes bats in ODIs like its a T20, but he's a much better batsman than McCullum IMO.