Virender Sehwag Does It Again

Virender Sehwag's incredible 219(149 Balls) against West Indies in the 4th ODI at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore,Madhya Pradesh on Thursday Dec 08,2011 knocked out one record after another and secures the ''Airtel ODI Series'' victory and to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the 5 match series.

Virender Sehwag's 219 – which came in just 149 balls with a world record-equalling 25 fours and from 7 towering sixes has created many milestones -

ODI Records of Virender Sehwag

• top scorer in both Test Cricket and ODI for India(319 in Test Cricket and 219 in ODI)

•  topscorer in ODI beating Tendulkar's unbeaten 200 against South Africa at Gwalior on February 24, 2010.

• highest score at this ground, beating Yuvraj Singh's 118 against England on November 17, 2008

• highest ODI score on Indian soil, beating 146 against Sri Lanka at Rajkot on December 15, 2009

• highest score as India's captain – beating 44 against Sri Lanka at Cuttack on December 21, 2009

• fastest Indian to score an ODI 150, taking only 112 balls to reach the milestone. The previous fastest for India was scored by Sachin Tendulkar off 118 balls (vs South Africa in Gwalior on February 24, 2011)

• fastest to score an ODI hundred for India against West Indies, taking only 69 balls to do so. He bettered his own record of 75 balls (at Rajkot on November 12, 2002)

• highest individual score in India-West Indies ODIs, beating Desmond Haynes' unbeaten 152 at Georgetown on March 21, 1989

• highest individual score against the West Indies in ODIs, bettering Australia's Mark Waugh's 173 at Melbourne on February 9, 2001.

•  highest score by an Indian captain in ODIs, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar's unbeaten 186 against New Zealand at Hyderabad on November 8, 1999.

•  highest score by any captain in ODIs, beating Sanath Jayasuriya's 189 against India at Sharjah on October 29, 2000

Test Records of Virender Sehwag

• Virender Sehwag has scored in 99 Tests - 8448 runs at 50.89 and a strike-rate of 82.45, with 23 hundreds and 32 half-centuries (his 100th test is against England in Mumbai which starts on Nov 23,2012)

• Out of Virenders Sehwag's 23 hundreds - 14 have been above 150, 6 of them double-centuries.

• Virenders Sehwag's strike-rate of 82.45 is the best (the qualification being a cut-off of 2000 runs) in the history of Test cricket

• Virender Sehwag become the 9th Indian cricketer to play 100 Test matches.

• Virender Sehwag is the only Indian batsman to score a Test triple-century. Not just once, but twice - 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004 and 319 against South Africa in Chennai in 2008.

• Virender Sehwag is one among the 4 batsmen to score in excess of 300 twice (Bradman, Brian Lara and Chris Gayle being the others)