By CricketCountry Staff
Dashing Indian opener Virender Sehwag, who scored a record second double ton in ODI cricket and also registered the highest individual score for any batsman, was congratulated by cricket fraternity on social media platform Twitter.
Published: Dec 08, 2011, 06:49 PM (IST)
Edited: Dec 08, 2011, 06:49 PM (IST)
Virender Sehwag scored 219 off 149 balls in the fourth ODI © AFP
By CricketCountry Staff
Indore: Dec 8, 2011
Dashing Indian opener Virender Sehwag, who scored a record second double ton in ODI cricket and also registered the highest individual score for any batsman, was congratulated by cricket fraternity on social media platform Twitter.
Zaheer Khan – Cheers lala congratulations!! @virendrasehwag way to go buddy !
Monty Panesar – That Punjabi power! Ha ha
Amit Mishra – Congrats Viru bhaiya on the record. You are a joy to watch and I’m honoured to have played with you!
ICC – Congratulations to Virender Sehwag on scoring 219, the highest ODI score of all time!
David Warner – Wow Test match tomorrow but am still up watching @virendersehwag score hopefully 200. UNREAL. AND HE DOES HIGHEST EVER WELL DONE MATE.
Mpumelelo Mpangwa – SehwagWOW!! #210*
Yuvraj Singh – “I say it again! I never saw sir viv bat but iv seen sehwag bat! what a player 219 in a one day game is next to impossible!”
Chris Gayle – Well I did watch some of that innings by Viru…. Brilliant striking!! Congrats on ur 219.. That’s child abuse! The Mask would say, Smoking!
Kevin Pietersen – “I’d swap everything I’ve done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag. #Viru” Very miserable life!!”
Sanjay Manjrekar – “That he got the 200 in a 50 over match with plenty to spare tells u a bit about virendra sehwag…”
Aakash Chopra – “The man who was widely expected to be the first man to breach d 200 run barrier in ODI has finally done it. Well done, Viru 🙂 Brilliant.”
BCCI – “Sehwag becomes the second man to reach a double-century in ODIs after Sachin Tendulkar & first to go past 200 runs.”
Rameez Raja – “When Viv Richards retired I thought it was end of entertainment. But then came Sehwag, the King of entertainment! Long live the King!!”
Sudeep Tyagi – “One of the best batsmen in the world proves it yet again, kudos and congratulations viru bhai”
Umesh Yadav – “Hats off………..viru bhaiya……”
Sidhartha Mallya – “What a legend @virendersehwag is!!!! To break a record is one thing, but to break one set by Sachin is another…get in son!!”
Derek Pringle – “Sehwag the greatest slaughterer of bowling since IVA Richards.”
Sundar Raman – “If one didn’t see viru’s innings could easily mistake the scorecard for a game of book cricket!”
Mandira Bedi – “Bow down to Viru for that incredible 219!! The only 2 double tonners in one day cricket are Indian!”
Davy Jacobs – “Wow, Sehwag!! What a legend!”
Shaun Pollock – “Must admit if I had to pick one person to get more than 200 in an ODI innings it would have been Viru! Congrats!”
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