Batsmen with most 'daddy hundreds' in ODI cricket

Daddy hundreds are hard to come by in ODI cricket. After all, an entire innings has to be wrapped up within 50 overs. Openers get the most opportunities to score big hundreds. If we classify daddy hundreds in ODIs as 150 plus scores, we will be left with very few such innings. There have only been 90 scores of 150 or more in all ODI cricket.The most number of balls faced was 201 by Glenn Turner, which comes to about 33 overs and three balls way back in 1975 when an ODI innings comprised of 60 overs. Rohit Sharma’s great ODI innings of 264 took 173 balls, the most in the 50 over format, close to 29 overs. That clearly shows why only 90 scores were managed by batsmen. Getting the time and the opportunity in itself is rare and then making it count makes it rarer.Rohit Sharma has already made a name for himself when it comes to scoring daddy hundreds in ODIs and his innings in the 1st ODI, albeit on the losing side, against Australia, the highest individual ODI score against them in Australia, has sparked this piece.We take a look at batsmen with most number of 150 plus scores in ODI cricket and there’ll hardly be many surprises at the top. 

#9 Hashim Amla 3

Amla is the fastest to 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000 ODI runs and looking at the breath-taking pace is likely to continue this record-breaking spree in terms of ODI innings. He is one of the select few batsmen with a 50+ average in ODI cricket having scored 6008 runs in 126 ODIs at 52. 

He already has 21 centuries, 3 of which are 150+ scores, with one each against Ireland, West Indies and England. Given his conversion rate and the speed at which he scores runs at the top of the batting order, Amla is sure to rise higher in this list.