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S R Tendulkar has breached the landmark that many had just dreamt of "A DOUBLE TON" in ODIs. It all started from 5th January,1971 when the first ever ODI was played. It has taken a mammoth 2961 matches to breach this milestone. It got to be this man the highest run scorer in cricketing history who can climb this height. He simply did it. This was an innings of true class. When the Little Mastro is "Carrying his bat for the 50 overs" one can be sure that records will tumble.
This innings of sachin left South African bowlers no place to bowl at. Each of the bowlers went for more than run a ball bowling to this mastro. There was no stopping once he reached his century. He reached his 100 of 90 balls. Then 150 in no time giving a tough time for the bowlers. It took just 18 balls to reach his 3rd fifty. Now, 150* of 118 balls.
When sachin was on 182* the last ball of 43rd over he created another record that went unnoticed when he hit Kallis for a boundary. This meant he has hit 25 fours making him the highest boundary hitter in a single innings going past the record of Sanath Jayasuriya who had hit 24 fours against Netherlands. He equaled the record of Gibbs for the total number of 4s and 6s. Gibbs hit 21 fours and 7 sixes in his blistering knock of 175 not long before during the record run chase of 434 against the Aussies.Sachin had hit 25 fours and 3 sixes in the match making a total of 28.
By that boundary he took his score to 186* equaling his previous best.Then on sachin made sure to reach the landmarks by steadying the show allowing Dhoni to free his arms. Sir V V Richards said "he is 99.5% perfect. I'll pay to watch him play" . He proved this true to the cricketing fraternity. First THE HIGHEST ODI RUNS IN SINGLE INNINGS sur passing the records set by S Anwar and C Conventry when he flicked Parnell of his pads for a couple.
Now, the huge one. FIRST EVER DOUBLE TON in the history. In the final over of the innnings when Sachin hit Langeveldt for a single on the off-side. Making the ODI debut 21 years ago he has given a lot to this game of cricket. Most importantly this record breaking innings of his kept India in the second spot in One Day Internationals. Hope to see lots more from this CRICKETING GENIUS.
