Now that international cricket is returning to Gwalior, fans will be glad to know what happened the last time the city hosted an international match. But let us tell you that when the last international match was played at Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior on February 24, 2010, history was created in that match.

In this match, former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar batted brilliantly and played a brilliant inning of 200 runs in 147 balls. After this double century, Sachin became the first cricketer to score a double century in ODI cricket.

This innings of Sachin came against the brilliant bowling of South Africa’s Dale Steyn, Wyatt Parnell, Jacques Kallis, Ralph van der Merwe and Charl Languet. Sachin hit 25 fours and 3 sixes during his innings, and with the help of this inning, India scored 401 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 50 overs.

In the match, Sachin scored half-century in 37 balls, century in 90 balls and 150 runs in 118 balls. In the match, South African team was able to score 248 runs and India won the match by 153 runs. So after the end of this match, Sachin said in quoting Times of India-

I don’t know how to react to this. I want to dedicate this to the people of India, who have always stood behind me through the ups and downs in these 20 years. I was hitting the ball and timing the ball well, it was coming on the bat well. Yusuf (Pathan) came in and changed the pace and MS (Dhoni) hit the ball really well. It was because of his hitting that we were successful in scoring such a big score.

#OnThisDay in 2010, @sachin_rt created history by becoming the 1st batsman to score a 200 in ODIs.

Relive the knock 👉 pic.twitter.com/F1DtPmo2Gm

— BCCI (@BCCI) February 24, 2020

Also, let us tell you that Sachin was the first player to score 200 runs in ODI cricket history, so for this special innings, Gwalior Division Cricket Association had given Sachin a silver bat and a prize money of Rs 10 lakh.