Prior to Guptill, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma and Chris Gayle had scored the ODI double hundreds. Rohit Sharma has scored double hundreds twice with the best score being 264, which is a world record.
Guptill scored 237* off 163 balls with 24 boundaries and 11 sixes to power New Zealand to 393/6 in 50 overs in the fourth quarterfinal against West Indies at Wellington. Apart from Guptill, Kane Williamson (33), Ross Taylor (42) and Grant Elliott (27) were the top contributors. For West Indies, Jerome Taylor took three wickets, while Andre Russell took two wickets.