There seems to be something about February 24th. Sachin Tendulkar became the first man to score 200 in an ODI against South Africa in Gwalior on this day in 2010.

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Exactly five years later, Chris Gayle became the first man to score 200 in a World Cup match. Since Tendulkar's monumental feat, Virender Sehwag and Rohit Sharma have gone past him and for a brief while yesterday Gayle looked to be threatening Sharma's 264.