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

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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