Pathum Nissanka double century- As a Sri Lankan cricketer, Jayasuriya had the highest individual run in ODIs so far. He scored 189 against India in 2000. Pathum Nissanka double century broke this record.
As Sri Lanka’s first cricket player, Pathum Nissanka established a precedent. In the first one-day encounter Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan, this right-handed opener amassed a double century in just 136 balls. Ultimately, he finished undefeated at 210 runs off 139 balls .He hit twenty (20) fours and eight (8) sixes while maintaining a strike rate of 151.08.
Ishan Kishan tops the list of fastest double centuries. Team India’s left-handed opener scored a double century against Bangladesh in 2023 off just 126 balls.
Glenn Maxwell is in the second place with a double century in 128 balls. Maxwell won the match by scoring a 128-ball double century against Afghanistan in the 2023 ODI World Cup.
Pathum Nissanka became the third-fastest player to achieve a double century in one-day international cricket with this incredible effort. Topped by Virender Sehwag and Chris Gayle. Virender Sehwag got a double century against the West Indies in 2011 with just 140 balls.
After that, in 2014, the ‘universe boss’ Gayel completed a double century in 138 balls against Zimbabwe.
In all, the total number of double centuries in ODI cricket is 12. Nishanka scored a double century as the 10th batsman among them. Indian captain Rohit Sharma has scored three double centuries alone. Rohit Sharma is the highest individual run scorer (264 runs) in the ODIs. The first cricketer to accomplish double century was Belinda Clarke of Australia, who on December 16, 1997, against Denmark, scored 229*.
Sachin Tendulkar (200*) is the first male cricketer to score a maiden double century in ODI cricket against South Africa in 2010.
Besides, Sachin Tendulkar, Sehwag, Shubman Gill scored double centuries among Indians. Along with them, this list includes batsmen like Maxwell, Gayle, Martin Guptill, Fakhar Zaman.
11 cricketers have scored 13 double centuries in the ODIs that includes 5 Indian batsmen.
