Zimbabwe’s Charles Coventry equals one-day batting world record

• Coventry equals Saeed Anwar’s 12-year-old benchmark
• Seven sixes and 16 fours hit in in 156-ball innings

The Zimbabwe batsman Charles Coventry equalled the highest one-day international score, hitting an unbeaten 194 to lead his team to 312-8 in the fourth match against Bangladesh at Bulawayo.

Coventry smashed 16 fours and seven sixes in 156 balls to record his maiden ODI hundred and match the score made by Saeed Anwar for Pakistan against India in Chennai in 1997.

Playing in his first series since 2006, the 26-year-old Coventry also surpassed the highest ODI score by a Zimbabwean, previously held by Craig Wishart, who hit 172 not out against Namibia in Harare at the 2003 World Cup.

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