Overview
- Sachin Tendulkar became the first male cricketer to score an ODI double century with 200 not out off 147 balls against South Africa in Gwalior on February 24, 2010.
- India reached 401/3 and won by 153 runs, built on Tendulkar’s 194-run stand with Dinesh Karthik and MS Dhoni’s late surge.
- Chris Gayle struck 215 off 147 balls against Zimbabwe in Canberra on February 24, 2015, the first double hundred in a men’s Cricket World Cup match.
- Gayle’s 10 fours and 16 sixes powered West Indies to 372/2 before a rain-adjusted 73-run victory.
- The breakthroughs broadened the ODI ceiling, with later double tons from Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma (including the format’s highest 264), Martin Guptill’s World Cup 237*, and Glenn Maxwell’s 201* in 2023.