Top 5 run-getters in IND-WI ODIs among current players
The West Indies team, fresh from a 3-2 T20I series win over England at home, will be heading to India to play three ODIs and as many T20Is starting from February 6, 2022, starting with the ODI leg at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Let’s take a look at the top 5 run-scorers in India vs West Indies ODIs among active players
5. Shai Hope
Shai Hope has an average of 53.30 in 16 ODI matches against India as the right-handed opener has scored 693 runs with four fifties. The wicketkeeper batter has smashed two centuries against the men in blue, both of them coming on the Indian shores in Visakhapatnam and Chennai in 2018 and 2019 respectively. His 123* in the 2018 match will be fresh among the cricketing fans as he along with Shimron Hetymer helped the West Indies to grab a tie.
4. Shikhar Dhawan
Shikhar Dhawa,n who now plays only ODI format for India, has amassed 834 runs in 26 ODI innings against West Indies. He has an average of 33.36 and two centuries against them. Dhawan will surely remember his knock of 102* in the Champions Trophy 2013 as that tournament kicked off his career in style. ‘Gabbar’ as he is popularly known, has also notched up five half-centuries against the 2012 and 2016 T20 WC Champions.
3. Chris Gayle
Finally, a West Indian batter on this list and it had to be Chris Gayle. The Jamaican has scored 1334 runs in 41 ODIs against India at an average of 32.53 with four hundreds. The veteran left-handed batter first played an ODI against India way back in the year 1999. Out of the four centuries, three came in the 2002 series alone in India. He also has six fifties to his name against the sub-continent giants.
2. Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma is third overall and second among active players to register most runs against the men in maroon. He has chalked up 1523 runs in 31 innings at an average of 60.92 and three centuries and loves scoring big in these contests as the dashing opener scored 152* and 162 in 2018 and 159 in 2019, all of those big hundreds coming at home. Like Kohli, he has also mustered 11 half-centuries against the West Indies in the 50-over format.
1. Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli certainly loves playing ODIs against West Indies. He has a staggering record against the Caribbean team as the 33-year-old has amassed 2235 runs in 38 innings with an average of 72.09 and nine centuries. The run-machine Kohli has also struck 11 fifties against them. To sum it up, he has the most number of runs and centuries against the West Indies team as compared to all other opponents in the 50-overs format.
