List of Highest Individual Scores in ODI cricket: The highest individual score by a batter in an ODI continues to exchange hands in every era. Indian cricketers have dominated the list ever since Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar scored the maiden double hundred in ODIs in 2010. Since then, men’s ODI cricket has witnessed 10 double hundreds.
Rohit Sharma is the only batter to have scored three double hundreds and presently holds the highest individual record by a batter in an ODI. He scored 264 against Sri Lanka in the 2014 ODI in Kolkata. Indian batters dominate the list when it comes to the highest individual score in ODIs. However, the list also includes some of the finest batsmen of their era. Here is a list of the top 20 individual ODI scores by a batter.
Rank | Player | Country | Runs | Opposition | Venue | Year |
1 | Rohit Sharma | India | 264 | Sri Lanka | Kolkata | 2014 |
2 | Martin Guptill | New Zealand | 237* | West Indies | Wellington | 2015 |
3 | Virender Sehwag | India | 219 | West Indies | Indore | 2011 |
4 | Chris Gayle | West Indies | 215 | Zimbabwe | Canberra | 2015 |
5 | Fakhar Zaman | Pakistan | 210* | Zimbabwe | Bulawayo | 2018 |
6 | Ishan Kishan | India | 210 | Bangladesh | Chattogram | 2022 |
7 | Rohit Sharma | India | 209 | Australia | Bengaluru | 2013 |
8 | Rohit Sharma | India | 208* | Sri Lanka | Mohali | 2015 |
9 | Shubman Gill | India | 208 | New Zealand | Hyderabad | 2023 |
10 | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 200* | South Africa | Gwalior | 2010 |
11 | Charles Coventry | Zimbabwe | 194* | Bangladesh | Bulawayo | 2009 |
12 | Saeed Anwar | Pakistan | 194 | India | Chennai | 1997 |
13 | Fakhar Zaman | Pakistan | 193 | South Africa | Joburg | 2021 |
14 | Viv Richards | West indies | 189* | England | Manchester | 1984 |
15 | Martin Guptill | New Zealand | 189* | England | Southampton | 2013 |
16 | Sanath Jayasuriya | India | 189 | India | Sharjah | 2000 |
17 | Gary Kirsten | South Africa | 188* | UAE | Rawalpindi | 1996 |
18 | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 186* | New Zealand | Hyderabad | 1999 |
19 | Shane Watson | Australia | 185* | Bangladesh | Mirpur | 2011 |
20 | Faf du Plessis | Australia | 185 | Sri Lanka | Cape Town | 2017 |