Virender Sehwag has the biggest inning as captain in ODI Cricket among Top 5

Biggest inning as captain in ODI Cricket

There have been many captains in ODI history who played excellent innings for their team, but there were only a few innings which made a special place. Virender Sehwag also had similar innings. Sehwag was not the regular captain of the Indian team and he only got a chance to captain the team on certain occasions, but on the day of 8 December 2011, he played an innings that became historic in the ODI match against the West Indies.

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Sehwag scored an innings of 219 against Indore on the day of 8 December 2011 in Indore which proved to be the best individual score of any player as captain in ODIs. Sehwag scored 219 runs in this match with the help of 25 fours and 7 sixes off 149 balls and broke Sachin's record as well as becoming the second batsman in the world to score a double century in ODIs.

Rohit Sharma is the second batsman in the world to have the biggest individual innings as ODI captain. Rohit scored an unbeaten 208 runs as captain in ODIs. At the third place is former Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya who scored 189 runs as an ODI captain. At the same time, former captain of the Indian team Sachin Tendulkar's name is also included in this list. Sachin scored an unbeaten 186 as ODI captain and is at number four in this list. At the same time, in this list, the name of former captain of the West Indies cricket team Vivian Richders is included at number five. Viv Richards had scored the biggest innings of 181 runs as an ODI captain.

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Top 5 batsmen with biggest innings as captain biggest in ODI Cricket

Virender Sehwag - 219 runs

Rohit Sharma - 208 * runs

-Sanath Jayasuriya - 189 runs

-Sachin Tedulkar - 186 * runs

-Vivian Richards - 181 runs