List: Top 10 ODI totals of all time.

1. 9/443 Sri Lanka Vs Netherlands. 4th July 2006 at Amstelveen, Netherlands.
This was the 1st of 2 ODI matches between Sri Lanka and Netherlands at Netherlands. Sri Lanka were 2/88 at one stage before a partnership between Snagakarra and Jayasuira, dominated by Jayasuria took them to 3/237 off 27.2 overs. When Jayauria finally departed for 127 off Just 104 balls Sri Lanka were 4/291. Dilshan also scored a century, 117* off just 78 balls with 15 fours and 2 sixes. Netherlands were bowled out for 8.
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2. 9/438 South Africa Vs Australia. 12th March 2006. Johannesburg, South Africa
This match wil lgo down as one of the best ODIs of all time. Australia scored a then record 4/434 batting first on a batsmens paradise. Ricky Ponting scored 164 off 105 balls with 13 fours and 9 sixes. Michael Hussey scored 81 off 51 balls with 9 fours and 3 sixes. South Africa chased down the target with 1 wicket in hand and 1 ball remaining. Herschelle Gibbs was the hero for the home team scoring 175 off 121 balls with 21 fours and 7 sixes. Michael Lewis conceded a record 113 runs off his 10 overs withot taking a wicket.
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3. 4/434 Australia Vs South Africa. 12th March 2006. Johannesburg, South Africa.
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4. 5/418 South Africa Vs Zimbabwe. 20th September 2006. Potchefstroom, Zimbabwe.
160 run opening stand between Bosman and Petersen.
Boucher - 147* off 60 balls. 8 fours and 10 sixes. Zimbabwe were bowled out for 247.
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5. 5/413 India Vs Bermuda 19th March 2007. Port of Spian, West Indieas (World Cup)
Sehwag - 114 off 87 balls. 17 fours, 3 sixes.
Singh - 83 off 46 balls. 3 fours, 7 sixes.
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6. 5/402 - New Zealand Vs Ireland 1st July 2008. Aberdeen, Scotland. (Associates Tri-Series)
Marhsall 161 off 141 balls. 11 fours, 4 sixes
McCullum 166 off 135 balls. 11 fours 10 sixes.
Opening Partnership - 266
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7. 5/398 Sri Lanka Vs Kenya. 6th March 1996. Kandy, Sri Lanka (World Cup)
De Silva - 145 off 115 balls. 14 fours, 5 sixes.
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8. 5/397 (44 overs) New Zeland Vs Zimbabwe. 24th August 2005. Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
172 off 120 balls. 16 fours, 9 sixes
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9. 6/392 South Africa Vs Pakistan. 4th Feburary 2007, Centurion, South Africa.
Smith 72 off 47 balls. 15 fours.
Boucher 78 off 38 balls. 9 fours, 4 sixes.
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10. 4/391 England Vs Bangladesh. 21st June 2005. Trent Bridge, England.
Strauss 152 off 128 balls. 19 fours.
Collingwood 112 off 86 balls. 10 fours, 5 sixes.
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Highest run chases of all -time

UPDATE: 5th November 2009 - CLICK HERE to see the highest successful run chases in India.


UPDATE: 2 days after this post was posted NZ chased down 347 agaisnt Australia to add themselves to 2nd place again and bump their old high score down to third place. All the others also move down 1 place and the 7/316 Indis scored against Pakistan at Dhaka in 97/98( Scorecard) moves out of the top 10.

Having failed to defend 5/336, Australia now has the unwanted record of the top 3 highest scores unsuccessfully defended. The worrying thing is these have all come in the last 12 months.

Stand-in skipper Michael Hussey isn't worried about this fact or the team's form coming into the world cup which starts next month "We can't afford to panic, we can't afford to start making wholesales changes or anything like that," said Hussey "I know big totals being chased down is an area of concern and we're going to have to get better at it, but I still think we've got the right people in the team and in the squad."

The list of the top 10 totals batting second in ODI history.

1. 9/438 SA v AUS Johannesburg 05/06 Scorecard
2. 9/350 NZ v AUS Hamilton 06/07 Scorecard
3. 5/337 NZ v AUS Auckland 06/07 Scorecard
4. 8/332 NZ v AUS Chirstchurch 05/06 Scorecard
5. 7/330 AUS v SA Port Elizabeth 01/02 Scorecard
6. 8/326 IND v ENG Lord's 02 Scorecard
7. 5/325 IND v WI Ahmedabad 02/03 Scorecard
8. 2/324 SRL v ENG Leeds 06 Scorecard
9. 7/319 PAK v IND Ahmedabad 04/05 Scorecard
10. 4/316 AUS v PAK Lahore 98/99 Scorecard

CB Series final points table and selected stats.

Points Table

Team	P	W	L	NR	T	BP	Points	NRR	For	Against
Australia	8	7	1	-	-	3	31	+0.667	1860 / 355.3	1826 / 400
England	8	3	5	-	-	1	13	-0.608	1655 / 399.5	1702 / 358.3
New Zealand	8	2	6	-	-	1	9	-0.007	2016 / 400	2003 / 396.5

Finals
England won 2-0

Batting Stats
(These stats will feature more players from Australia and England than New Zealand and Aus and Eng played 2 extra games.)

Highest Average (Minimum 100 runs)
Name Inn NO Runs HS Avg
Oram 5 2 261 101* 87.60
Ponting 8 2 445 111 74.16
Collingwood 9 1 379 120 47.37
Hayden 10 1 387 117 43
Hodge 5 1 154 99* 38.50

Most Runs
Ponting 445
Hayden 387
Collingwood 378
Bell 292
Joyce 288
Taylor 282
Highest Strike Rates (minimum 4 innings)
Oram 124.28
Plunkett 109.43
Hodge 101.98
Gilchrist 95.27
Ponting 87.25
Flintoff 85.41

Highest Scores (clicking name/score will open the match scorecards)
Collingwood 120*
Hayden 117
Ponting 111
Joyce 107
Collingwood 106
Fleming 106
Ponting 104
Oram 10
Hodge 99*

Bowling Stats
Most wickets
Name M O W
McGrath 7 68 13
Plunkett 6 49. 5 12
Lee 7 68 12
Bracken 8 71.1 12
Flintoff 10 81.1 12
Bond 6 56.5 11
Best Averages(minimum 20 overs)
Anderson 20.62
Plunkett 23
McGrath 23.26
McMillan 24.24
Johnson 26
Best bowling in an innings
Flintoff 4/21
Vettori 4/24
Lewis 4/36
Anderson 4/42
Johnson 4/45
Bond 4/46

Australia: Too far ahead of the pack?

Recent results seem to suggest that nobody is anywhere close when compared to Australia. The recent Ashes series was 1 Vs 2 yet Australia won 5-0. The 2 games played so far in the Commonwealth Bank Series have been won easily by Australia. The first 1 Vs England by 8 wickets and the 2nd Vs NZ by 105 runs. Australia have been so good for so long, surely they have to start failing one day.
Australia didn't lose a test match in 2006 whereas the West Indies didn't win a match.

Tests
Team                Tests      Won     Lost    Drawn     Tied      Win %
Australia              10       10        0        0        0     100.00
Sri Lanka              11        6        3        2        0      66.66
Pakistan               12        4        3        5        0      57.14
New Zealand             8        3        3        2        0      50.00
India                  12        3        3        6        0      50.00
England                14        5        6        3        0      45.45
South Africa           11        3        7        1        0      30.00
Bangladesh              4        0        4        0        0       0.00
West Indies            10        0        5        5        0       0.00

5 of the top 10 best averages in 2006 were Australians. With 1 very very surprising name at 1. Jason Gillespie thanks to his 201* against Bangladesh has an average for 2006 of 231.

Highest Test Averages of 2006.

Name                Mat    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100 50   Ct St TeJN Gillespie          2    3   2   231  201* 231.00  43.50   1  -    2  - AUS
Mohammad Yousuf      11   19   1  1788  202   99.33  62.64   9  3    3  - PAK
RT Ponting           10   18   3  1333  196   88.86  60.78   7  4    8  - AUS
MEK Hussey           10   15   3   965  182   80.41  53.34   2  7    5  - AUS
MJ Clarke             6    9   3   429  135*  71.50  61.11   2  1    2  - AUS
LPC Silva             2    4   1   213  152*  71.00  69.38   1  1    2  - SL
KC Sangakkara        11   20   2  1242  287   69.00  59.03   4  4   20  2 SL
PA Jaques             1    1   0    66   66   66.00  67.34   -  1    1  - AUS
Younis Khan          11   20   2  1179  199   65.50  58.74   3  6   12  - PAK
M Kaif                5    7   2   317  148*  63.40  47.17   1  1    2  - IND

Australia's one day record for 2006 was not bad either, winning 71.42% of matches. Only 1 series (including tournaments) was lost 2-3 to South Africa in January.
ODIs

Team                 ODIs      Won     Lost     Tied       NR      Win %
Australia              29       20        8        0        1      71.42
New Zealand            14        9        5        0        0      64.28
Bangladesh             28       18       10        0        0      64.28
South Africa           24       15        9        0        0      62.50
West Indies            33       18       14        0        1      56.25
Sri Lanka              36       19       15        0        2      55.88
Pakistan               23       11       10        0        2      52.38
Ireland                 3        1        1        0        1      50.00
India                  30       13       15        0        2      46.42
Kenya                  16        7        9        0        0      43.75
Netherlands             8        3        4        0        1      42.85
Bermuda                12        4        8        0        0      33.33
Zimbabwe               29        8       20        0        1      28.57
England                20        5       14        0        1      26.31
Canada                 10        2        8        0        0      20.00
Scotland                5        1        4        0        0      20.00

All lists used with thanks to Statsguru

Stats: Retirees and the series.

Retirees

Shane Warne will finish his career with the unwanted record of most test runs without a century (3154) Unless he is sent in early he will finish his career with batting stats of Matches: 145 Innings: 199 Not Outs: 17 Runs: 3154 High Score: 99 Average: 17.32 paulyt Average*: 15.84 Balls Faced: 5470 Strike Rate: 57.65 Centuries: 0 50's: 12 Ducks: 34 Fours: 353 Sixes: 37
Bowling Stats: Overs: 6784.1 Maidens: 1761 Runs: 17995 Wickets: 708 BB/I: 8/71 BB/M: 12/128 Average: 25.41 Economy Rate: 2.65 Strike Rate: 57.4 5/I: 37 10/M: 10

Glenn McGrath also has an unwanted record, most ducks by an Australian (35). His career stats (again assuming he doesn't come out early) Matches: 124 Innings: 138 Not Outs: 51 Runs: 641 High Score: 61 Average: 7.36 paulyt Average: 4.64 Balls Faced: 1570 Strike Rate: 40.82 100's: 0 50's: 1 Ducks: 35 4's: 51 6's: 1

Bowling - Overs: 4874.4 Maidens: 1470 Runs: 12186 Wickets: 563 BB/M: 8/24 BB/I: 10/27 Average: 21.64 Economy Rate: 2.49 Strike Rate: 51.9 5/I: 29 10/M: 3

Justin Langer: Matches: 105 Innings: 182 Not Outs: 12 Runs: 7696 High Score: 250 Average: 45.27 paulyt Average: 42.28 Balls Faced: 14192 Strike Rate: 54.22 100's: 50's: 30 Ducks: 11
4's: 912 6's: 40

Series Stats
Highest Batting Averages:

1. Hussey - 91.60 (458 runs 7 innings 2 not outs)
2. Ponting - 82.28 (576 runs 8 innings 1 not out)
3. M. Clarke - 77.80 (389 runs 7 innings 2 not outs)
4. Symonds - 58.00 (232 runs 4 innings 0 not outs)
5. Pietersen - 54.44 (490 runs 10 innings 1 not out)

Most Runs

1. Ponting - 576 (8 innings)
2. Pietersen - 490 (10 innings)
3. Hussey -458 (7 innings)
4. Collingwood -433 (10 innings)
5. Hayden - 413 (9 innings)

Highest Scores

1. Collingwood - 206
2. Ponting - 196
3. Pietersen - 158
4. Symonds - 156
5. Hayden - 153

Highest Strike Rates

1. Gilchrist - 101.77
2. S. Clark - 85.00
3. Warne - 71.27
4. Langer - 70.79
5. Symonds - 66.09

Back later with bowling stats
*paulyt Average = Runs divided by total innings. Normal average is runs divided by times out.