West Indies bowlers get Sehwag treatment
09/12/2011
Those enjoying hospitality packages at the Rose Bowl when England play a one-day international (ODI) against the West Indies there next summer may wonder if they are about to see the visitors' bowling subjected to anything like the treatment just handed out by India.
Seeking to level the series at Indore, the tourists ran into Virender Sehwag in record breaking form, with his blitz of 219 off just 149 balls being the highest individual score in an international 50-over game.
India piled up a mammoth 418 and won the game by 153 runs, although Dinesh Ramdin produced a bold 96 in the West Indian reply of 265.
Sehwag's was only the second ODI hundred in history, the previous one being a score of 200 not out by fellow Indian Sachin Tendulkar.
"I was cheering for Sachin when he got his double hundred and it's great to break his record," Sehwag said.
One plus point for the West Indies is they have at least won one match in the current series, unlike England whose trip to India finished in a 5-0 whitewash.
By Sam Smith