India ODI highest individual score: All-Time Records

Rohit Sharma made 264 off 173 balls against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens on 13 November 2014. It is the highest score in any men's One-Day International, by any batter, and it is 45 runs clear of the next-best innings by an Indian.

Seven double centuries have been scored for India in the format, by five batters. Rohit has three of them, which no other player in the world has managed once over. Virender Sehwag's 219 at Indore in December 2011 was briefly the world record; Sachin Tendulkar's unbeaten 200 at Gwalior in February 2010 was the first double hundred in ODI history.

The list below ranks individual innings, not careers, so a batter appears once for each qualifying score. Balls faced and boundary counts are carried beside the runs because the same score means different things at 100 and at 160 an over — Ishan Kishan's 210 came off 131 balls, Virat Kohli's unbeaten 160 off 159.

The 25 biggest ODI innings played for India

#	Player	Score	Balls	4s	6s	SR	Opponent	Venue	Date
1	Rohit Sharma	264	173	33	9	152.60	Sri Lanka	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	13 Nov 2014
2	Virender Sehwag	219	149	25	7	146.97	West Indies	Indore	8 Dec 2011
3	Ishan Kishan	210	131	24	10	160.30	Bangladesh	Chattogram	10 Dec 2022
4	Rohit Sharma	209	158	12	16	132.27	Australia	Bengaluru	2 Nov 2013
5	Rohit Sharma	208*	153	13	12	135.94	Sri Lanka	Mohali	13 Dec 2017
6	Shubman Gill	208	149	19	9	139.59	New Zealand	Hyderabad	18 Jan 2023
7	Sachin Tendulkar	200*	147	25	3	136.05	South Africa	Gwalior	24 Feb 2010
8	Sachin Tendulkar	186*	150	20	3	124.00	New Zealand	Hyderabad (Deccan)	8 Nov 1999
9	MS Dhoni	183*	145	15	10	126.20	Sri Lanka	Jaipur	31 Oct 2005
10	Sourav Ganguly	183	158	17	7	115.82	Sri Lanka	Taunton	26 May 1999
11	Virat Kohli	183	148	22	1	123.64	Pakistan	Mirpur	18 Mar 2012
12	Kapil Dev	175*	138	16	6	126.81	Zimbabwe	Tunbridge Wells	18 Jun 1983
13	Sachin Tendulkar	175	141	19	4	124.11	Australia	Hyderabad	5 Nov 2009
14	Virender Sehwag	175	140	14	5	125.00	Bangladesh	Mirpur	19 Feb 2011
15	Rohit Sharma	171*	163	13	7	104.90	Australia	Perth (WACA)	12 Jan 2016
16	Virat Kohli	166*	110	13	8	150.90	Sri Lanka	Thiruvananthapuram	15 Jan 2023
17	Sachin Tendulkar	163*	133	16	5	122.55	New Zealand	Christchurch	8 Mar 2009
18	Rohit Sharma	162	137	20	4	118.24	West Indies	Brabourne, Mumbai	29 Oct 2018
19	Virat Kohli	160*	159	12	2	100.62	South Africa	Cape Town	7 Feb 2018
20	Dinesh Mongia	159*	147	17	1	108.16	Zimbabwe	Guwahati	19 Mar 2002
21	Rohit Sharma	159	138	17	5	115.21	West Indies	Visakhapatnam	18 Dec 2019
22	Virat Kohli	157*	129	13	4	121.70	West Indies	Visakhapatnam	24 Oct 2018
23	Virat Kohli	154*	134	16	1	114.92	New Zealand	Mohali	23 Oct 2016
24	Shubman Gill	154	110	22	2	140.00	Afghanistan	Lucknow	17 Jun 2026
25	Mohammad Azharuddin	153*	150	17	1	102.00	Zimbabwe	Cuttack	9 Apr 1998

Seven double hundreds, five batters

Score	Player	Balls	6s	Opponent	Venue	Date
264	Rohit Sharma	173	9	Sri Lanka	Eden Gardens	13 Nov 2014
219	Virender Sehwag	149	7	West Indies	Indore	8 Dec 2011
210	Ishan Kishan	131	10	Bangladesh	Chattogram	10 Dec 2022
209	Rohit Sharma	158	16	Australia	Bengaluru	2 Nov 2013
208*	Rohit Sharma	153	12	Sri Lanka	Mohali	13 Dec 2017
208	Shubman Gill	149	9	New Zealand	Hyderabad	18 Jan 2023
200*	Sachin Tendulkar	147	3	South Africa	Gwalior	24 Feb 2010

All seven fell between February 2010 and January 2023, a thirteen-year window. In the thirty-six years of Indian ODI cricket before that, nothing came within fourteen runs of 200. Rohit Sharma's three are separated by eight years, came against three different opponents, and were all made in India — at Kolkata, Bengaluru and Mohali.

The 209 at Bengaluru contained 16 sixes, more than any other innings on this list. Tendulkar's 200 contained three, which is the clearest single indication of how the ceiling moved: the two innings are 64 runs apart in total and 13 apart in sixes.

Seventeen of the 25 came at home

Where	Innings in the top 25	Highest
In India	17	264, Eden Gardens
Away or neutral	8	210, Chattogram

Eight of the 25 were played outside India: Kishan's 210 and Sehwag's 175 in Bangladesh, Sourav Ganguly's 183 at Taunton and Kapil Dev's 175 not out at Tunbridge Wells during World Cups in England, Kohli's 183 at Mirpur, his 160 not out at Cape Town, Tendulkar's 163 not out at Christchurch and Rohit's 171 not out at Perth.

Kapil's innings is the oldest on the list by sixteen years and the only one from before 1998. India were 17 for 5 against Zimbabwe when he came in, and the match is covered in the account of the 1983 World Cup.

Which opponents the big scores came against

Opponent	Innings in the top 25	Largest
Sri Lanka	5	264
West Indies	4	219
New Zealand	4	208
Australia	3	209
Zimbabwe	3	175*
Bangladesh	2	210
South Africa	2	200*
Pakistan	1	183
Afghanistan	1	154

Only one of the 25 was scored against Pakistan, Virat Kohli's 183 in the 2012 Asia Cup at Mirpur, which reflects how rarely the two sides have met in bilateral ODIs since 2013. The context is in the India-Pakistan rivalry guide.

Sri Lanka concede five of the top 25 and three of the top ten, four of the five in India and the fifth at Taunton. England appear nowhere on the list; the highest ODI score by an Indian against England is below the cut of 153.

The strike rates inside the biggest innings

Ishan Kishan's 210 was struck at 160.30, the fastest scoring rate of any innings here, and he reached 200 off 126 balls. Rohit's 264 at 152.60 is second, and Kohli's 166 not out at Thiruvananthapuram third at 150.90.

At the other end, Kohli's 160 not out at Cape Town came at 100.62, the slowest tempo on the list and the only entry under 101. It was made in the 2018 series in South Africa that India won 5-1, on a Newlands surface that held nobody else above a hundred. The list of India's fastest ODI hundreds ranks the same kind of innings by tempo rather than size, and produces a substantially different set of names.

How India's ODI record climbed

Score	Player	Date	Held for
175*	Kapil Dev	18 Jun 1983	15 years, 11 months
183	Sourav Ganguly	26 May 1999	5 months
186*	Sachin Tendulkar	8 Nov 1999	10 years, 3 months
200*	Sachin Tendulkar	24 Feb 2010	1 year, 9 months
200* to 219	Virender Sehwag	8 Dec 2011	2 years, 11 months
264	Rohit Sharma	13 Nov 2014	Current

Kapil's mark survived four World Cups. Then the record changed hands four times in fifteen years and has not moved since. The 1999 pair are the tightest sequence: Ganguly at Taunton in May, Sachin Tendulkar at Hyderabad in November, three runs apart.

Four observations

The first is that no Indian has scored an ODI double century since January 2023, the longest gap since Tendulkar's 200 opened the category. Batting totals have risen since then, so the drought is not about scoring conditions.

The second is that 13 of the 25 innings were unbeaten — more than half. A batter who reaches 150 in a 50-over innings and is still there at the close has usually run out of overs rather than partners, and Kohli accounts for four of the 13 on his own.

The third is that Virender Sehwag is the only Indian with two innings above 175 who was dismissed both times. He was on 219 with two balls of the innings left at Indore, and 175 with 24 balls left at Mirpur.

The fourth is that four of the 25 belong to batters who played fewer than 70 ODI innings — Kishan, Shubman Gill twice, and Dinesh Mongia. A single very large score is not a career, and Mongia's 159 not out at Guwahati remains the only hundred he made in 57 ODI innings. Full records for every name here are in the player directory, and the format's development in the country is traced in the cricket in India hub and its ODI history guide.

Sources and method

Every innings, balls-faced figure, boundary count, strike rate, opponent, venue and date on this page comes from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru innings-by-innings query for men's ODIs with the team filter set to India, sorted by runs. The cut at 153 is where the twenty-fifth row falls; a handful of scores between 150 and 153 are therefore excluded, so the table should be read as the top 25 rather than as every score above 150.

The home and opponent tables are counts made here from those 25 rows, not separate Statsguru queries, and they describe this sample only — not India's ODI scoring against those opponents in general. Venue names use the ground as Statsguru records it, with the city added where the ground name alone is ambiguous.

The record-progression table is assembled from the same innings list by taking each score that exceeded the previous highest at the time it was made; the "held for" column is calculated from the two match dates. Because the innings list is complete above 153, no Indian score between 176 and 182 exists to interrupt the sequence between 1983 and 1999. Data were pulled during the closing days of August 2026.