Double tons of Sachin, Sehwag and Rohit and winning margin coincidence:
Indian cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Rohit Sharma were the first three batsmen to score double ton in ODIs. The first one to reach the milestone was the Master-Blaster. He scored unbeaten 200 runs against South Africa in February 2010.
In less than two years of that record, the attacking batsman Sehwag broke his idol’s record and smacked 219 runs against West Indies in December 2011.
Rohit Sharma followed the veterans’ steps and registered his first double ton against Australia during the Bengaluru ODI in 2013. But the hitman’s knock which made history was against Sri Lanka in 2014. He broke the record of Sehwag and scored 264 runs, which is still the highest individual score in ODIs.
But there is an amazing coincidence related to each time the three players scored their record-breaking ODI double ton, the team India won those matches by the exact margin of 153 runs.