Most Fours in an Innings - Individual ODI Cricket Batting Records and Statistics

In ODI cricket, it was known as the singles and doubles game. But in ODI cricket over the past five years, a major change in batsmen’s attitudes has been noted. The English men’s cricket team has taught other teams how to play aggressively in ODIs. The most fours scored by a team in an ODI inning: The way the game is played currently is very different from how it was played even a decade ago. This is the total number of fours a team has scored in an inning of ODI cricket.

Teams and players have adopted an aggressive attitude in the modern era of cricket. Players start attacking as soon as the game’s first ball is tossed. Today, the borders are smaller, the fields are flatter, and the bats are larger.

Most Fours by a Team in ODI Innings:

Most Fours in an Innings

Fours	Runs	Player	Team	Opposition	Venue	Match Date
33	264	Rohit Sharma	India	Sri Lanka	Kolkata	13 November 2014
25	200*	Sachin Tendulkar		South Africa	Gwalior	24 February 2010
25	219	Virender Sehwag		West Indies	Indore	8 December 2011
24	157	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	Netherlands	Amstelveen	4 July 2006
	237*	Martin Guptill	New Zealand	West Indies	Wellington	21 March 2015
	173	David Warner	Australia	South Africa	Cape Town	12 October 2016
	210*	Fakhar Zaman	Pakistan	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	20 July 2018

Data Insights

The most fours in an ODI inning were all struck by Rohit Sharma (33). The highest score by a batsman in an ODI innings, he achieved this distinction during his 264-run marathon against Sri Lanka. In ODI cricket, only Hitman has batted three double centuries. In terms of balls faced, Rohit’s record innings took 173 balls, making it the longest batsman-played innings in a 50-over game.

The first three people on this list are all Indian. The only non-openers on this list are Virat Kohli and Calum Macleod. Because they get to face all 50 innings and benefit from the powerplay, openers predominate this list. On this list, only Martin Guptill has pulled off this feat during a World Cup match. In the quarterfinals of the 2015 ODI World Cup, he did this in opposition to the West Indies. The best rate of four-strike outs per 100 balls in an ODI inning belongs to Sanath Jayasuriya.

In ODIs, Virat Kohli has the highest batting average of any of the batsmen on this list. The player with the most runs in the format is Sachin Tendulkar. The batsman on the list with the greatest strike rate is Virender Sehwag. The fastest five 150-plus scores in ODI cricket are listed here. Given that Rohit Sharma’s record required a marathon inning, it appears to be challenging to surpass it.