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Virender Sehwag smashed 219 from 149 balls to break the record for the highest one-day international score as India thrashed West Indies by 153 runs.

His team-mate Sachin Tendulkar, rested from this series, previously held the record after hitting an unbeaten 200 against South Africa in 2010.

Sehwag, 33, dropped on 170, hit seven sixes and 25 fours in an India record one-day total of 418-5.

India dismissed the visitors for 265 in Indore to seal a series-clinching win.

HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL ODI SCORES


219 - Virender Sehwag, India v WI, Dec 2011
200* - Sachin Tendulkar, Ind v SA, Feb 2010
194* - Charles Coventry, Zim v Ban, Aug 2009
194 - Saeed Anwar, Pkn v Ind, May 1997
England's highest ODI score is Robin Smith's 167 v Australia in 1993

Sehwag, captaining the side with Mahendra Dhoni rested, said: "I was cheering for Sachin when he got his double hundred and it's great to break his record.

"I think everyone was expecting me to get 200 but I was not expecting it."

Sehwag, dropped badly by rival captain Darren Sammy as he honed in on the landmark, broke Tendulkar's record in the 44th over with a boundary steered through point off Andre Russell.

The opener was finally dismissed in the 47th over when substitute fielder Anthony Martin held a catch at long-off, from the bowling of Kieron Pollard.

It was the right-hander's 15th one-day international century and during his innings he passed 8,000 ODI runs.

"It was a true batting wicket and when I was hitting the ball into the gaps, it was going for four," added Sehwag.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/16090375.stm