Sehwag’s 146 Runs off 107 Balls

Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag raises his bat after scoring a century during the first One-Day International (ODI) in Rajkot on December 15, 2009. Sri Lanka’s captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and sent India in to bat in the first One-Day International.

Virender Sehwag gets the Man of the Match award. I would have had Dilshan and Sehwag share it, or even Harbhajan Singh take it alone. But it's the batsmen and the winners that often tell the history. Says Sehwag: "I am in good form. I scored 200 in Tests, 50 in T20, I was telling myself I am in good form I have to utilise it. We [me and Sachin] were aiming for 350 to begin with, but MS played really well and raised the bar. In Test matches I score big hundreds, but in ODIs I get out in 30s and 40s, so this is good time to convert them into big hundreds."