Dhoni becomes the Highest Scorer of 2009

Sachin completes 20 years in ODIs

India failed to keep their momentum going and as a result lost the second of the five match series at Nagpur. However it wasn't all as dull as ditchwater, as captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni posted his sixth century in ODIs.

With his knock, Dhoni edged ahead of Pakistan's Kamran Akmal, who has scored five centuries. Dhoni now has keepers Adam Gilchrist and Kumar Sangakkara in sight who have scored more centuries than Dhoni. Gilly has notched up 16 centuries while Sangakkara has 8 under his belt. As of now, Dhoni has become the highest ODI run-scorer in 2009 equalling Australia's Ricky Ponting's tally of 1198 runs. Dhoni still has three ODI matches to play against Lanka in the ongoing series.

On the other side, Sachin Tendulkar finished two decades in ODI cricket on December 18th. The Maestro had made his debut against Pakistan at Gujranwala on the same day back in 1989. He is now only the second player in the history of ODI cricket to play for twenty years, after Pakistan's Javed Miandad, who had a span of 20 years 272 days. There were more records for India - the team's 302 was their 57th 300+ total in ODIs. India now look to overtake Australia who hold the record for 59 300+ scores. Out of the 57 times, India have scored 300+ against Sri Lanka 12 times, which is the highest by any side.

On the downside, Ashish Nehra now holds the dubious world record of giving away 70+ runs 8 times in his quota of ten overs. He just overtook Waqar Younis who had 7 such ordeals.