Shubman Gill made 223 not out from 133 balls in Guwahati on Wednesday, reaching his double century off 117 deliveries — the fastest in one-day international history — as India hauled down West Indies’ 405-7 with eight wickets and 39 balls in hand.
India’s 406-2 in 43.3 overs is the second-highest successful run chase in ODI history, behind only South Africa’s 438-9 against Australia at the Wanderers in 2006. West Indies had just posted their highest total in half a century of one-day cricket, built on centuries from John Campbell, Shai Hope and Amir Jangoo. They lost with more than six overs unused.
The 811 runs at the Barsapara Stadium made this one of the highest-scoring ODIs ever played. India lead the three-match series 2-0 with one to play in New Chandigarh on Saturday.
Three centuries, and it still wasn’t enough
West Indies batted first and, for four hours, looked like a side rewriting its own history. Campbell struck 101 from 68 balls at the top, falling the delivery after reaching three figures. Hope then made 104 from 94 — his 20th ODI century, taking him past Brian Lara’s 19 — and added 182 for the third wicket with Jangoo, whose 114 from 77 balls was the most fluent innings of the three.
No West Indies side had passed 400 in an ODI before; their previous best was 389 against England in 2019. No West Indies innings had contained three centurions. Kuldeep Yadav finished with 2-65 and reached 200 ODI wickets along the way, but India’s attack had no answers on a surface offering nothing.
405-7 is now the highest total made in a losing ODI cause. West Indies also became the first of the 11 teams to produce three individual hundreds in an innings and still lose the match.
“Lot of positives I can take from it, mainly from the batting side,” Hope said afterwards. “When you come up against some of the best batters, you can’t let them have a start.”
The fastest double century in the format’s history
That is precisely what happened. Gill and Rohit Sharma put on 255 for the first wicket, Rohit making 101 from 75 balls with 10 fours and six sixes, and by the time he departed the target had been reduced from improbable to routine. Virat Kohli added 29 from 19, Ruturaj Gaikwad 31 not out from 37.
Gill’s innings was the match. He reached 100 from 62 balls — the fastest ODI century by an India captain — 150 from 89, and 200 from 117, erasing Ishan Kishan’s 126-ball mark set against Bangladesh in December 2022. He hit 26 fours and eight sixes, struck at better than 167 and was never dismissed.
The list of records he now holds is unusually dense:
- Highest individual score in a successful chase in List A cricket
- Highest ODI score by an India captain, beating Virender Sehwag’s 219 against West Indies in 2011
- Third-highest ODI score of all time, behind Rohit’s 264 and Martin Guptill’s 237 not out
- Only the second double century made while chasing, after Glenn Maxwell’s 201 not out against Afghanistan in 2023
- Second player after Rohit to make more than one ODI double hundred
What it means for Gill’s India
Gill inherited the ODI captaincy as a batter whose white-ball numbers had never been questioned but whose authority in the role was still being established. Chasing 406 is the sort of assignment that usually ends careers rather than defines them. He treated it as a scoring opportunity from the first over and did not slow down once the required rate dipped below seven.
For West Indies, the defeat is harder to process than a routine beating. Their batting, long their weakest department, produced the best innings in the team’s one-day history. Their bowling then conceded 406 in 43.3 overs. Hope’s diagnosis — that his attack let India’s best players settle — is accurate but incomplete; the Barsapara pitch gave nothing to seam or spin, and the Caribbean side has no bowler capable of changing that equation.
India have now won 14 consecutive bilateral ODI series against West Indies. With a 2026-27 home season still unfolding and the next 50-over World Cup cycle underway, the more significant takeaway is that Gill, at 27, has turned himself into the format’s most destructive accumulator — a batter who converts, and converts enormously, at a strike rate that used to belong to specialists lower down the order.
Sources: [Cricinfo scorecard](https://www.cricinfo.com/series/west-indies-in-india-2026-27-1529215/india-vs-west-indies-2nd-odi-1529228/full-scorecard), [The Express Tribune](https://tribune.com.pk/story/2632396/west-indies-pile-up-record-405-7-in-second-odi-against-india), [CricTracker](https://www.crictracker.com/cricket-news/west-indies-post-highest-ever-odi-total-of-405-7-against-india-in-guwahati/), [Asianet Newsable](https://newsable.asianetnews.com/sports/gill-s-223-trumps-three-wi-tons-as-india-seals-series-in-guwahati-articleshow-zgnucfr), [Outlook India](https://www.outlookindia.com/sports/cricket/india-vs-west-indies-2nd-odi-second-highest-odi-chase-406-guwahati-records-match-report), [The News Mill](https://thenewsmill.com/2026/10/shubman-gill-unbeaten-223-as-india-set-record-odi-chase-vs-west-indies/)
**Verified before writing** — 761 words. Two notes on facts I checked and adjusted: reports vary slightly on Campbell’s balls faced (66 vs 68) and Hope’s (90 vs 94); I used the majority figure in each case. Maxwell’s 201* is my attribution for the only other chasing double century — sources confirmed the “second after Maxwell” claim but not the match detail, so verify that line if you want it airtight.
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