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Indian skipper Rohit Sharma becomes 6th-highest run scorer for India in ODIs

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Indian skipper Rohit Sharma has surpassed former batter Mohammed Azharuddin to become the sixth-highest run-getter for his country in ODI cricket. The batter accomplished this record during India’s first ODI against Bangladesh at Dhaka. With this, his ODI statistics stand at 234 matches, and 9,403 runs in 227 innings at an average of 48.46. He has scored 29 tons and 45 fifties in his ODI career, with the best individual score of 264, which is also the highest score ever in ODIs.

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Azharuddin, who moved down to 7th spot, had scored 9,378 runs in 334 matches in 308 innings at an average of 36.92, with seven tons and 58 fifties and the best score of 153. Other leading run-scorers in ODI cricket for India are: Sachin Tendulkar (18,426), Virat Kohli (12,353), Saurav Ganguly (11,221), Rahul Dravid (10,768) and MS Dhoni (10,599).

Top 10 Highest run scorer’s in ODI:

S.No  Player  Matches  Innings  Runs
01   Sachin Tendulkar (IND) 463  452  18426
02 Kumar Sangakkara (SL) 404 380 14234
03 Ricky Ponting (AUS) 375 365 13704
04 Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) 445 433 13430
05 Mahela Jayawardene (SL) 448 418 12650
06  Virat Kohli (IND)  263 254 12353
07 Inzamam­Ul­Haq (PAK) 378 350  11739
08 Jacques Kallis (SA) 328 314 11579
09 Sourav Ganguly (IND) 311 300 11363
10 Rahul Dravid (IND) 344 318 10889

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