Highest Score in ODI Cricket (Individual and Team)

Rohit Sharma holds the highest individual score in men’s one-day international cricket: 264, made against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on 13 November 2014. It is the only score above 240 in ODI history, and it came off 173 balls with 33 fours and 9 sixes.

That knock sits at the top of a very short list. Scoring 200 in a 50-over innings was thought impossible until 2010, and even now only six men have managed it. The highest team total is a separate record, and England own it outright with 498 for 4. Both marks are covered below. Figures are as of the 2025 season.

The highest individual scores in ODI cricket

Here is every men’s ODI double century, ranked by score. These nine innings are the only times a batter has reached 200 in a men’s one-day international.

Score	Batter	Opponent	Venue	Date
264	Rohit Sharma	Sri Lanka	Kolkata	13 Nov 2014
237*	Martin Guptill	West Indies	Wellington	21 Mar 2015
219	Virender Sehwag	West Indies	Indore	8 Dec 2011
215	Chris Gayle	Zimbabwe	Canberra	24 Feb 2015
210*	Fakhar Zaman	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	20 Jul 2018
210	Ishan Kishan	Bangladesh	Chattogram	10 Dec 2022
209	Rohit Sharma	Australia	Bengaluru	2 Nov 2013
208*	Rohit Sharma	Sri Lanka	Mohali	13 Dec 2017
200*	Sachin Tendulkar	South Africa	Gwalior	24 Feb 2010

Six batters have joined the double-century club, and Rohit Sharma appears three times. Guptill’s 237 and Gayle’s 215 are the only two scored at a World Cup.

Rohit Sharma’s 264: the record knock

Rohit’s innings against Sri Lanka is the clearest outlier in the record book. His 264 is 27 runs clear of the next-best score, a bigger gap than the one between second and eighth on the list. He was dropped early, then punished a tiring attack with the second half of his innings, reaching his last 100 runs off roughly 50 balls.

What makes Rohit unusual is not one giant score but three. His 209, 264 and unbeaten 208 mean he owns three of the nine double hundreds ever made. Every other member of the club has exactly one. For a fuller picture of ODI run-scoring, our list of the highest ODI batting averages shows who has been most consistent across a career rather than in one innings.

The highest team total in ODI history

Team totals climbed alongside individual ones. England pushed the ceiling into new territory in the late 2010s and now hold the three highest scores ever recorded.

Total	Team	Opponent	Venue	Year
498/4	England	Netherlands	Amstelveen	2022
481/6	England	Australia	Nottingham	2018
444/3	England	Pakistan	Nottingham	2016
443/9	Sri Lanka	Netherlands	Amstelveen	2006
439/2	South Africa	West Indies	Johannesburg	2015
438/9	South Africa	Australia	Johannesburg	2006

England’s 498 for 4 against the Netherlands is the record. Three batters — Dawid Malan, Phil Salt and Jos Buttler — all passed 100 in that innings, the first time three centurions appeared in the same ODI. That South Africa 438 is the famous one: they chased down Australia’s 434 in the same match, the highest successful run chase of its era.

Why the big scores came so late

Every score on both lists is from 2006 or later, and the double centuries only from 2010. That timing is not a coincidence. Flatter, drier pitches, smaller boundary ropes at many grounds, bats with deeper sweet spots, and fielding restrictions that keep men inside the circle for longer all shifted the balance toward batters over the 2010s.

The two-new-balls rule, in use for much of the decade, also meant the ball stayed harder for longer and reverse swing arrived late, if at all. A set batsman facing tired bowling in the final ten overs now has conditions built for acceleration, which is exactly the window in which Rohit turned 150 into 264.

Whether pitches and rules stay this batter-friendly is an open question; several boards have tinkered with ball rules since. But the marks themselves have held. Rohit’s 264 has stood since 2014, and England’s 498 since 2022, both without a serious challenger.

If you enjoy testing your own cricket knowledge against records like these, try SportsMonkie’s cricket games, or read up on the best Cricket World Cup matches to see where these record innings fit into the tournament’s history. Rohit’s 264 is the number to beat, and a decade on, no one has come close.