10 cricketers who missed out on a significant milestone during their careers

#2 Saeed Anwar missing out on becoming the first double centurion in ODIs

Saeed Anwar missed out on becoming the first double centurion in ODIs by just 6 runs

The former Pakistani cricketer, Saeed Anwar, is widely considered as one of the greatest openers the nation has ever produced. Anwar scored two successive tons on three different occasions in his career. Representing Pakistan in 55 Tests and 247 ODIs, Anwar scored 4052 and 8824 runs, respectively.

Out of his 31 international tons, the most notable one was his 194 in the 6th Match of the Pepsi Independence Cup in 1997 against India in Chennai. At the time when an individual score of 200 was almost unimaginable, the 50-year-old, raced his way to a 146-ball-194 before being dismissed by Sachin Tendulkar, missing out on the golden opportunity to become the first double centurion in ODIs but his score remained as the highest individual score in ODIs for more than a decade.

Anwar held the record for 12 years till Charles Coventry of Zimbabwe scored an unbeaten 194 Bangladesh in 2009. Later the magical figure of 200 was first achieved by the maestro Sachin Tendulkar against South Africa in 2010 at Indore. Following Sachin Tendulkar, five other batsmen scored double hundreds in ODIs. Rohit Sharma leads the list with three double centuries (264, 209, 208*), followed by Martin Guptill (237*), Virender Sehwag (219), Chris Gayle (215) and Fakhar Zaman (210*).