NewzGUWAHATI, India (CMC) — Shubman Gill struck the fastest double-century in One-Day International (ODI) history and Rohit Sharma made 101 as India mowed down 406 to beat West Indies with 39 balls to spare, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. On a pancake-flat pitch, West Indies, sent in, posted 405, with John Campbell, Shai Hope and Amir Jangoo all scoring centuries. Debutant Auqib Nabi finished with 0 for 84 from 8.5 overs, the most expensive debut figures by an Indian bowler.
India’s reply was even more ruthless. Gill remained unbeaten on 223 off 133 balls, reaching his double hundred off 117 balls, nine quicker than Ishan Kishan’s previous record. Rohit made 101 off 72 balls and became the third Indian after Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli to reach 12,000 ODI runs.
India’s captain Shubman Gill celebrates after scoring a century during their second one-day international (ODI) cricket match against West Indies at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati on Wednesday. (Photo: AFP) The match produced 811 runs, the third-highest aggregate in ODIs and the first in which five batters scored centuries. In the first over, Jayden Seales found movement off the seam, and Gill’s attempted cut flew past off stump for four via a thick under-edge.
Seales beat him again in his next over, but Alzarri Joseph and Shamar Joseph offered width, conceding 14 and 17 in their first overs. India were 92 without loss after ten overs, with Rohit racing to a 32-ball fifty. Gill then took over, coming down to the spinners, hitting Roston Chase for two sixes in an over, and reaching his hundred off only 62 balls.
West Indies had one real chance to break the stand when Keacy Carty dropped Rohit off Vitel Lawes on 84. Rohit went on to reach his 35th ODI hundred off 72 balls. Seales eventually trapped him lbw with a slower ball in the 27th over, ending a 255-run opening stand, three short of Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly’s Indian record, and setting India on course for a record chase.
Gill and Kohli took 25 off Seales’s next over as India reached 300 in 29.1 overs, the fastest by any team in an ODI and more than three overs quicker than South Africa in their famous 438 chase. Kohli fell for 29 off 19, ramping Shamar Joseph to third man, where Sherfane Rutherford took a sharp catch on the ropes. Ruturaj Gaikwad rotated strike while Gill…
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