Top 10 Players with highest runs from boundaries in an ODI game

Top 10 Players with highest runs from boundaries in an ODI game

Often you must have heard the phrase ‘it’s raining fours and sixes’ in cricket. Well certainly these words are made for the games we are going to discuss today. Although it is solely the player’s ability, match does not have to do anything with it but still it will be called a match with highest runs from boundaries. Or else you can say the players who scored highest runs from boundaries in a single innings. As we are talking about One Day International matches so add the word ODI as well. Obviously the innings having most number of runs come through fours and sixes will be some of the biggest innings. More a batsman hits the boundaries the more he gets runs.

Breaking the suspense, Rohit Sharma holds the record for highest runs from boundaries in an ODI match. As said earlier the feat came for him in the highest individual score in ODI history. During his mammoth knock of 264 against Sri Lanka 2 years ago Rohit Sharma cored a total of 42 boundaries including 33 fours and 9 sixes. The combined score of these boundaries reaches up to 186 – a world record till this date. Now if any batsmen wants to go for the tough-to-get feat he surely has to score a double hundred first. Although it is not an impossible to break record because there are many batsmen capable of doing the unthinkable in cricket.

The list then gets the name of Martin Guptill, another double centurion in ODI history who grabbed the most runs through boundaries in his 237* runs knock during the world cup 2015. Interestingly Shane Watson’s 185* inning is the only single hundred inning in top five of the list. Not to forget that this innings was the second fastest 150 ever in ODI history. Chris Gayle, Virendar Sehwag, AB de Villiers, Herschel Gibbs all join the list with their raw hitting power. Follow the full list of players with highest runs from boundaries hereunder.

Top 10 Players with highest runs from boundaries in an ODI game

Player	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	4+6	SR	Team	Opposition
RG Sharma	264	173	33	9	186	152.60	India	Sri Lanka
MJ Guptill	237*	163	24	11	162	145.39	New Zealand	West Indies
SR Watson	185*	96	15	15	150	192.70	Australia	Bangladesh
RG Sharma	209	158	12	16	144	132.27	India	Australia
V Sehwag	219	149	25	7	142	146.97	India	West Indies
CH Gayle	215	147	10	16	136	146.25	West Indies	Zimbabwe
AB de Villiers	149	44	9	16	132	338.63	South Africa	West Indies
HH Gibbs	175	111	21	7	126	157.65	South Africa	Australia
MS Dhoni	183*	145	15	10	120	126.20	India	Sri Lanka
Saeed Anwar	194	146	22	5	118	132.87	Pakistan	India