Sachin Tendulkar 200* (147) - Statistical Analysis

Sachin Tendulkar celebrates after reaching double century

Sachin Tendulkar, on 24th February 2010, scored the first ever double century in the history of 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.

Let us have a statistical analysis of this historic innings:

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 2 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
1^st	5	1.3	Parnell	Four at mid-off
50^th	37	11.4	Van der Merve	Four at fine-leg
100^th	90	27.6	Duminy	Single at point
150^th	117	37.3	Parnell	Four at mid-wicket
200^th	147	49.3	Langeveldt	Single at point

Bowler-Wise:

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	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	-

Team’s overs-wise:

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 record of the highest individual score in ODIs changed hands:

Runs	Batsman	For	Opp	Venue	Date	ODI #
82	John Edrich	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	05 Jan 1971	1
103	Dennis Amiss	Eng	Aus	Manchester	24 Aug 1972	2
105	Roy Fredericks	WI	Eng	The Oval	07 Sep 1973	9
116*	David Lloyd	Eng	Pak	Nottingham	31 Aug 1974	14
137	Dennis Amiss	Eng	Ind	Lord’s	07 Jun 1975	19
171*	Glenn Turner	NZ	EA	Birmingham	07 Jun 1975	20
175*	Kapil Dev	Ind	Zim	Tunbridge Wells	18 Jun 1983	216
189*	Viv Richards	WI	Eng	Manchester	31 May 1984	264
194	Saeed Anwar	Pak	Ind	Chennai	21 May 1997	1209
200*	Sachin Tendulkar	Ind	SA	Gwalior	24 Feb 2010	2962
219	Virender Sehwag	Ind	WI	Indore	08 Dec 2011	3223

Dennis Amiss and Glenn Turner changed the records in few hours as they did it on the same day.

In August 2009, Zimbabwean Charles Coventry 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.

# 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 2 more double centuries in ODIs both by Indians – Sehwag 219 vs WI, 2011 and Rohit Sharma 209 vs Aus, 2013.