Top run-scorers at a single venue in ODIs

The batter’s job is to score runs for the team and himself, and some just love scoring runs at a particular venue around the world. Players from each country have their preferred venue when it comes to chalking up most runs.

Let’s take a look at country-wise top run-getters in ODIs at a single venue

1. Ricky Ponting (MCG)

Ponting loved playing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. He played 41 ODIs and mustered 2108 runs with an average of 56.97. Ponting hit seven centuries and 15 fifties at the world’s second-biggest stadium (capacity-wise). Notably, he scored 1993 runs while playing for Australia and 115 runs for ICC World XI.

2. Eoin Morgan (The Rose Bowl)

Morgan has appeared in 17 ODIs at the Rose Bowl in Southampton and scored 752 runs with an average of 75.20. His highest score is 107* with three tons and two half-centuries. He certainly loves batting on the southern coast of the UK.

3. Sachin Tendulkar (Sharjah)

Sachin Tendulkar and Sharjah were a match made in heaven as he wreaked havoc in the 1998 Tri-Series. He amassed staggering 435 runs in just fove innings with an average of 87.00. His 134 in the final against Australia still gives goosebumps to all the cricket fans. Overall, Tendulkar made 1778 runs in 42 innings as he registered unbelievable seven tons and seven fifties at Sharjah.

4. Ross Taylor (Hamilton)

Taylor enjoys his time at Seddon Park in Hamilton as he has made 871 runs in 17 ODI innings with an average of 62.21. His best score was 113 as the Kiwi also struck four tons to go with five fifties.

5.Inzamam-ul-Haq (Sharjah)

Another batter who enjoyed playing at Sharjah was Inzamam-ul-Haq. He played 59 innings and notched up 2464 runs with the highest score of 137*.  He also mustered four hundred and 17 fifties at the ground where the most number of ODIs have been played in ODI history which is 240 matches.

6. Sanath Jayasuriya (Colombo)

Jayasuriya was a terror for all the teams in the ODI format at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. He scored 2514 runs in 70 innings with a 38.67 average. Sanath hit four tons and 19 half-centuries with the highest score of 130. For all the opposition bowlers, Jayasuriya’s wicket was a prized scalp in the 50-overs format in Colombo.

7. Hashim Amla (Centurion)

Amla enjoyed scoring runs at the SuperSport Park in Centurion. In 15 innings he slammed 904 runs with a 64.57 average. Amla scored more centuries than the fifties as the right-handed classical player had five tons and a solitary fifty to his name at Centurion.

8. Brian Lara (Trinidad)

West Indies great Brian Lara loved playing at his home ground Queen’s Park Oval at Port-of-Spain in Trinidad. He played 30 ODIs and mustered 1276 runs with an average of 55.47. He struck two centuries and eight fifties with the highest score of 146*.