Records & Stats

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

2) Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara comes second in the list of highest run-getters in One Day Internationals. He has scored 14234 runs in 380 innings at an average of 41.98 and a strike rate of 78.86. Sangakkara has 25 hundreds and 93 fifties to his name. The Sri Lankan’s highest score in limited-over cricket is 169. His last World Cup was in 2015. 

In that World Cup, he scored 541 runs in seven matches. In the 2015 World Event, which was held in Australia, he scored four hundreds consecutively. Sangakkara was famous for his cover drive. It was very pleasing to the eye and it was played along the ground. It would go for four most of the time.