{"id":126479,"date":"2022-12-06T12:21:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=126479"},"modified":"2022-12-06T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:51:28","slug":"indian-skipper-rohit-sharma-becomes-6th-highest-run-scorer-for-india-in-odis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indian-skipper-rohit-sharma-becomes-6th-highest-run-scorer-for-india-in-odis\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian skipper Rohit Sharma becomes 6th-highest run scorer for India in ODIs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Indian skipper Rohit Sharma becomes 6th-highest run scorer for India in ODIs:<\/strong> Indian skipper\u00a0Rohit Sharma\u00a0has surpassed former batter\u00a0Mohammed Azharuddin\u00a0to become the\u00a0sixth-highest\u00a0run-getter for his country in ODI cricket. The batter set this record while playing for India against Bangladesh in the opening ODI in Dhaka. \u00a0Now that he has played in 234 ODI matches, he has scored 9,403 runs in 227 innings, averaging 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-december-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azharuddin, who dropped to seventh place, had scored 9,378 runs in 334 matches in 308 innings, averaging 36.92, with seven tonnes, 58 fifty-scores, and the top score of 153. &nbsp;Other top run scorers for India in ODI cricket include:&nbsp;Sachin Tendulkar (18,426), Virat Kohli (12,353), Saurav Ganguly (11,221), Rahul Dravid (10,768) and MS Dhoni (10,599).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Top 10 Highest run scorer\u2019s in ODI:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>S.No&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Player&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Matches&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Innings&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Runs<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>01&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Sachin Tendulkar (IND)<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>463&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>452&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>18426<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>02<\/td><td>Kumar Sangakkara (SL)<\/td><td>404<\/td><td>380<\/td><td>14234<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>03<\/td><td>Ricky Ponting (AUS)<\/td><td>375<\/td><td>365<\/td><td>13704<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>04<\/td><td>Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)<\/td><td>445<\/td><td>433<\/td><td>13430<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>05<\/td><td>Mahela Jayawardene (SL)<\/td><td>448<\/td><td>418<\/td><td>12650<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>06&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Virat Kohli (IND)&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>263<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>254<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>12353<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>07<\/td><td>Inzamam\u00adUl\u00adHaq (PAK)<\/td><td>378<\/td><td>350<\/td><td>&nbsp;11739<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>08<\/td><td>Jacques Kallis (SA)<\/td><td>328<\/td><td>314<\/td><td>11579<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>09<\/td><td>Sourav Ganguly (IND)<\/td><td>311<\/td><td>300<\/td><td>11363<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td>Rahul Dravid (IND)<\/td><td>344<\/td><td>318<\/td><td>10889<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian skipper Rohit Sharma becomes 6th-highest run scorer for India in ODIs: Indian skipper\u00a0Rohit Sharma\u00a0has surpassed former batter\u00a0Mohammed Azharuddin\u00a0to become the\u00a0sixth-highest\u00a0run-getter for his country in ODI cricket. The batter set this record while playing for India against Bangladesh in the opening ODI in Dhaka. \u00a0Now that he has played in 234 ODI matches, he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":126480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4992],"tags":[2326,59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-126479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2022","tag-rohit-sharma","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126481,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126479\/revisions\/126481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126479"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=126479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}