Sachin Tendulkar 200* (147) - 24 February, 2010: A Statistical Analysis

Sachin Tendulkar celebrates scoring the record-breaking 200 against South Africa on 24 February,2010

Sachin Tendulkar, on 24th February 2010, scored the first ever double century in the history of Men's One Day International Cricket. The venue was the Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh and the opposition was South Africa. He managed to reach the historic landmark off 147 balls in the final over the Indian innings.

Before him, Belinda Clark of Australia had already scored 229* (155) in Women's ODIs vs Denmark at Mumbai in 1997.

Let us have a statistical analysis of this historic inning.

Runs Split Up

Runs	Balls	Fours	Sixes
0 to 50	37	9	-
51 to 100	53	4	-
101 to 150	28	8	1
151 to 200	29	4	2
200	147	25	3

Sachin Tendulkar had a brisk start as he reached his half century off just 37 balls which included 9 fours. The second 50 runs came quite slowly, still he completed his century off 90 balls. The next two 50 runs were scored in 28 and 29 balls respectively and he reached the milestone in 50th over. 

Runs	Balls	Fours	Sixes
0 to 100	90	13	-
101 to 200	57	12	3
200	147	25	3

Reaching each landmark

Run	Balls	Overs	Bowler	Shot
1st	5	1.3	Parnell	Four at mid-off
50th	37	11.4	Van der Merve	Four at fine-leg
100th	90	27.6	Duminy	Single at point
150th	117	37.3	Parnell	Four at mid-wicket
200th	147	49.3	Langeveldt	Single at point

Sachin Tendulkar's runs came at almost even pace against all bowlers. He scored most runs, 46 off 24, against Wayne Parnell at strike rate of 191.66. He managed to score atleast a 20 runs against each of the 6 bowlers South Africa used. 

Bowler-wise Break-up

Bowler	Runs	Balls	S/R	Dots	Singles	Doubles	Fours	Sixes
Dale Steyn	37	31	119.35	16	7	1	7	-
Wayne Parnell	46	24	191.66	4	8	5	7	-
Roelof van der Merve	43	32	134.37	11	13	2	5	1
Charl Langeveldt	30	28	107.14	11	12	2	2	1
JP Duminy	20	17	117.64	6	8	1	1	1
Jacques Kallis	24	15	160.00	2	8	2	3	-

Over progression

Overs	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate	Fours	Sixes
0 to 10	46	32	143.75	8	-
10.1 to 20	33	29	113.79	4	-
20.1 to 30	31	35	88.57	3	-
30.1 to 40	50	29	172.41	8	1
40.1 to 50	40	22	181.81	2	2
0 to 50	200	147	136.05	25	3

Power Play Overs vs Normal Overs

Category	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate	Fours	Sixes
Power Play 1	46	32	143.75	8	-
Power Play 2	16	16	100.00	2	-
Power Play 3	33	18	183.33	7	-
All Power Plays	95	66	143.93	17	-
Other Overs	105	81	129.62	8	3

Off side vs On side

Side	Runs	Singles	Doubles	Fours	Sixes
Off-Side	90	26	5	12	1
On-Side	110	30	8	13	2

Partnerships

For Wicket	Runs	Overs	Run-Rate	Partner1	Partner2
1	25	3.5	6.52	Sachin (16)	Sehwag (9)
2	194	29.3	6.57	Sachin (108)	Karthik (79)
3	81	7.5	10.34	Sachin (44)	Y Pathan (36)
4	101*	8.5	11.43	Sachin (32)	Dhoni (68)

How the ODI highest individual score record changed hands

Runs	Batsman	For	Opp	Venue	Date	ODI #
82	John Edrich	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	5-Jan-71	1
103	Dennis Amiss	Eng	Aus	Manchester	24-Aug-72	2
105	Roy Fredericks	WI	Eng	The Oval	7-Sep-73	9
116*	David Lloyd	Eng	Pak	Nottingham	31-Aug-74	14
137	Dennis Amiss	Eng	Ind	Lord’s	7-Jun-75	19
171*	Glenn Turner	NZ	EA	Birmingham	7-Jun-75	20
175*	Kapil Dev	Ind	Zim	Tunbridge Wells	18-Jun-83	216
189*	Viv Richards	WI	Eng	Manchester	31-May-84	264
194	Saeed Anwar	Pak	Ind	Chennai	21-May-97	1209
200*	Sachin Tendulkar	Ind	SA	Gwalior	24-Feb-10	2962
219	Virender Sehwag	Ind	WI	Indore	8-Dec-11	3223
264	Rohit Sharma	Ind	Sl	Kolkata	13-Nov-14	3544

In August 2009, Zimbabwean Charles Coventry had equalled Saeed Anwar's 194 by scoring 194* vs Bangladesh. 

Apart from becoming the first to score a double century in ODIs, below is the list of some more records achieved by Tendulkar in the innings: 

# Sachin Tendulkar overcame the record of scoring most number of fours (25) in an ODI inning. Previous record was of 22 fours by Saeed Anwar in his 194 vs India in 1997. However now the record is held by Rohit Sharma with 33 fours in his score of 264 (173).

# Sachin Tendulkar scored his 5th 150+ score in ODIs to become the player with most number of 150+ score in ODIs which was previously equalled with Sanath Jayasuriya (4).

# Sachin Tendulkar overcame Ricky Ponting's 164 as the highest individual score against South Africa in ODIs.  

After Sachin Tendulkar's double century, there have been 4 more double centuries in ODIs and all by Indians - Sehwag 219 vs WI, 2011, Rohit Sharma 209 vs Aus, 2013, Rohit Sharma 264 vs SL, 2014 and Gayle 215 vs ZIM.