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ODI Cricket: Top 5 Batters with Most Runs in ODI Cricket History

The One Day International format has been great in Cricket. It involves a hundred overs of toil and a lot of strategies are required to ensure that a team wins a match. This format is also called limited-over cricket. The pinnacle of ODI cricket is the World Cup which is held once in four years. The One Day matches were earlier sixty-over games before it was reduced to fifty-overs per side.

The format has seen the greats of cricket come in and play their best games. This format requires a lot of endurance and stamina from a player’s point of view to be on the field for long periods. Here, we take a look at 5 of the top run scorers in ODIs. The 50-over format has seen a lot of changes over the years.

Here are the Top 5 Batters with Most Runs in ODI History:

5) Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli has scored 12754 runs at an average of 58.33 and a strike rate of 93.68.  He has played 268 matches in ODI Cricket and has 46 hundreds and 64 fifties to his name. Kohli’s favourite shot is the flick shot over the mid-wicket region. The former Indian captain’s highest score of 183 came in an Asia Cup game against Bangladesh.

Kohli recently made it to the top five run-getters of ODI cricket. He is now four short of fifty ODI tons and also three short of matching Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI hundreds. The played a vital role as a youngster to help India lift the 2011 World Cup. He made a very important 35 in the final of the World Cup against Sri Lanka to help India overhaul 275.