At the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia and England played their first One Day International (ODI) cricket match in 1971. Just as it appeared like Test cricket would be eliminated from the sport, the One Day International format replaced it and brought in a large number of new followers. Despite the introduction of the Twenty20 format of the game, ODIs have been able to maintain their popularity.
The majority of players and fans still choose this game style over Twenty20, and those who succeed in it are regarded extremely highly.

Here are the Top 5 batsman with highest batting average in ODI Cricket.

MS Dhoni:

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a former captain of India, is ranked tenth among players with the highest one-day international batting averages. He has played 350 games and had 297 opportunities to bat, amassing 10773 runs at an average of 50.57. For the man from Ranchi, these runs total 73 half-centuries and ten centuries.

Only two players on this list—including Dhoni, one of India’s greatest captains—have amassed more than 10,000 runs in ODIs. Dhoni is one of the greatest goal scorers in the history of the modern game.
He is renowned for using a range of strokes and for having the hitting prowess to destroy bowlers. The lightning-quick stumpings he completes and the poise he displays when he’s behind the wickets are more examples of his elite wicketkeeping skills. Dhoni’s highest ODI score is 183 against Sri Lanka in Jaipur in 2005.

Shai Hope :

The only member of the West Indies on this list is wicketkeeper and batsman Shai Hope. Behind Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Hope is the only other full-time wicketkeeper to have played in 78 One Day Internationals and scored 3289 runs overall.

His 52.20 average places him seventh on this list. In the format, Hope has nine centuries and seventeen half-centuries. Nevertheless, he will never be forgotten for the two centuries he struck at Headingley during the 2018 Test series, which helped his team defeat England despite chasing a total of 322.

In Nelson, New Zealand, in 2016, the 26-year-old made his ODI debut, and he hasn’t looked back since.
In fact, Hope has established herself as the cornerstone of a squad that cannot brag of steadiness or consistency.
Cricket fans all over the world anticipate great things from Hope in the future since he is a player who has made many promises.

Virat Kohli :

The current best white-ball batsman in the world is India’s skipper Virat Kohli.
The Delhi-born batsman has established his dominance in all formats of the game, with a 59.33 average in One Day Internationals, in which he has already scored 11867 runs in the 239 innings he has batted in.

Since playing in his first ODI in 2008, Kohli has amassed an incredible 43 hundreds and 58 half-centuries, and he shows no signs of slowing down. With a strike rate of 93 and a career-high score of 183, Virat Kohli has been the best and most successful Indian batsman to play in One Day Internationals since Sachin Tendulkar retired from the sport.

Kohli, an international superstar who represents the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, is adored by millions of fans. It remains to be seen where Kohli ranks among the greatest ODI batsmen because he still has a few years of elite-level cricket remaining in him.

Michael Bevan:

Australia’s Michael Bevan, one of the game’s all-time great finishers, was a run accumulator who existed in a separate universe. Bevan was renowned for his easy drives and deft cuts that opened up spaces in the field and allowed him to easily take singles and doubles, but his greatest talent resided in his ability to keep the scoreboard moving.
He frequently assisted his team in gaining a sizable edge over the opposition without the opposition even realising it.

Bevan averaged 53.58 in the 232 One Day Internationals he participated in, even though he only got to bat in 196 of them, by going about in his subtle and sophisticated way.
His 6912 runs total included just six centuries but 46 significant half-centuries, the majority of which came in Australia’s victories.

Australia’s rivals were aware that as long as Bevan was in the bowling circle, victory was never far away.
Bevan is arguably the best one-day batsman our nation has ever produced.

Rayan Ten Doeschate

Surprisingly, Ryan ten Doeschate, a player representing the Netherlands, is at the top of this ranking.
In his career, which spanned from 2006 to 2011, he only participated in 33 One Day Internationals for his nation, but in the 32 innings he got to bat, he scored 1541 runs at an extremely outstanding average of 67.

The fact that the former Dutch captain was unbeaten in 9 of those innings worked in his favour.
In his brief but brilliant career, Ten Doeschate has five centuries and nine half-centuries under his belt, with a strike rate of 87. He was also quite adept at handling the ball.

When he joined the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League, where he played for five years, Indian fans loved how good he was at everything.

During the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, Ten Doeschate scored two centuries. One of them was against England, which almost scared them.

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