- SACHIN TENDULKAR
The Little Master, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, former Indian Cricketer has registered a total of 49 ODI centuries to his name. He was the first cricketer to score a double hundred in One Day Internationals. In ODIs, he has scored a total of 18,426 runs in 463 matches with a batting average of 44.83 which includes 49 centuries and 96 fifties.
His top score in ODI cricket was 200 not out against South Africa. He has a record of scoring more than a thousand runs in a calendar year for 7 times and his tally of 1,894 runs in 1988 was the highest number of runs scored by a batsman in a calendar year.
Mid way through his career, he was ranked as the second greatest ODI cricketer, behind Viv Richards by the Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack. Sachin Tendulkar is the leading run scorer in the chart of the highest number of ODI runs.
