Virender Sehwag smashed 219 from 149 balls to break the record for the highest one-day international score as India thrashed West Indies by 153 runs.
Sehwag, 33, dropped on 170, hit seven sixes and 25 fours in an India record one-day total of 418-5.
India dismissed the visitors for 265 in Indore to seal a series-clinching win.
England's highest ODI score is Robin Smith's 167 v Australia in 1993
Sehwag, captaining the side with Mahendra Dhoni rested, said: "I was cheering for Sachin when he got his double hundred and it's great to break his record.
HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL ODI SCORES
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219 - Virender Sehwag, India v WI, Dec 2011
200* - Sachin Tendulkar, Ind v SA, Feb 2010
194* - Charles Coventry, Zim v Ban, Aug 2009
194 - Saeed Anwar, Pkn v Ind, May 1997
England's highest ODI score is Robin Smith's 167 v Australia in 1993
"I think everyone was expecting me to get 200 but I was not expecting it."
Sehwag, dropped badly by rival captain Darren Sammy as he honed in on the landmark, broke Tendulkar's record in the 44th over with a boundary steered through point off Andre Russell.
The opener was finally dismissed in the 47th over when substitute fielder Anthony Martin held a catch at long-off, from the bowling of Kieron Pollard.
It was the right-hander's 15th one-day international century and during his innings he passed 8,000 ODI runs.
"It was a true batting wicket and when I was hitting the ball into the gaps, it was going for four," added Sehwag.
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