1. Babar Azam(PAK)
Babar Azam is a Pakistani cricketer who has been turning heads. He is a high-order batsman and serves as Captain of the Pakistani cricket team in the T20 and Vice-Captain in ODI format. Making his 20-year-old ODI debut in 2015, he became Pakistan's top scorer at the 2019 ICC World Cup in England.
In 2017, he was awarded the PCB ODI Player of the Year award when he became the first player in history to earn 5 consecutive years in the same country. At just 25 years of age, he is considered the heir. He is ranked third in the list of top 10 ODIs in the world.
In his first ODI match, he scored 54 runs in just 60 games. He is also the Pakistani player who has scored three hundred years in T20 games in the calendar year.
2. Virat Kohli(IND)
Virat Kohli is the captain of India and currently sits in 1st place in the ICC ODI player status of 2021. Being an outstanding player who sharpens a team gets many runs in the team, and he personally likes to chase the target rather than putting points fired by another team.
He was born on November 5, 1988, in Delhi, arrived in the International format in 2008 when he was just 19 years old and is now estimated at 869/1000 by the ICC.
He has a record of reaching 11,000 ODIs running faster than anyone else globally, much faster than Sachin Tendulkar. He has been awarded the ICC ODI Player of the Year award 3 times - 2012, 2017, and 2018.
3. Rohit Sharma(IND)
Rohit Sharma is one of the Indian Cricketers on the list, opening for the Indian cricket team and also the Vice-Captain of the Indian team. His full name is Rohit Gurunath Sharma, and he was born on 30th April 1987 in Nagpur.
He started his career in 2007 at the age of 20 and is currently ranked second in the top 10 ODIs in the World.
Rohit Sharma has a record of scoring the most runs in the ODI World Cup with 264 runs. He also has the largest number of Double Centuries earned by any cricketer globally in ODI format, with 3 thousand double.
4. Ross Taylor(NZ)
Ross Taylor is a New Zealand cricket player and plays in succession. He has served as captain of the New Zealand cricket team in the past. His full name is Lutheran Ross Poutao Taylor, and he was born on 8th March 1984 in Lower Hutt, Wellington. He is ranked fourth in the list of the top 10 ODIs in the World.
He started playing ODI in 2006 at the age of 22 but managed to score 15 runs; however, he scored 128 * against Sri Lanka in his third ODI match. And you are the few selected players in the world who have beaten the century twice in Test format.
, Also, Ross Taylor is the first New Zealander to have centuries fighting all nations playing Test matches in the ODI format. He has played in 4 ICC World Cups - 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019. Apart from this, he is the only 4th player in the game's history to have celebrated 100 years on his birthday.
5. Aaron Finch(AUS)
Aaron Finch is another Australian batsman on the list and ranks 9th on the top 10 ODI Batsmen in the World. He is the opening batsman for the Australian cricket team and serves as the captain in the limited cricket format.
Aaron Finch’s full name is Aaron James Finch, and he was born on 17th November 1986 in Colac, Victoria, Australia. He made his ODI debut in 2013 at the age of 27 against Sri Lanka, where he could only score 16 runs. However, this does not overshadow his record.
In T20I, he holds the record of the highest individual score of 172, which is also the highest run by any opener and captain. And by doing so, he broke the record of no other player but himself of 156 runs. Recently, he and David Warner set a record highest ever opening partnership with 285 runs against India.
6. Jonny Bairstow(ENG)
Jonny Bairstow is a 31-year-old English wicket-maker born on September 26, 1989, and the son of former English boxer David Bairstow. Being the only English cricketer among the world's top ODI batsmen speaks volumes about his talent. He made his debut for his first club in 2009 and became the top scorer with 82 unbeaten goals in the second innings.
He made his debut One Day International against India in 2011 in the fifth ODI match against visiting Indians in Cardiff and made it special with an amazing 21-ball 41 match that helped his team win the match. Bairstow was also the first English cricketer to earn three major One Day International trophies in 2018.
Jonny Bairstow has an average strike rate of 103.72 in the ODI and is 10 and 13 centuries old in his name.
7. Fakhar Zaman(PAK)
Fakhar Zaman is a 31-year-old Pakistani cricketer added to the 10 best ICC Men ODI batters in the world. In April 2017, Zaman made the ODI squad debut for Pakistan in the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy. However, it was 7th June 2017 against South Africa, where he made his ODI debut.
He also became the Man of the Match for CT finals in 2017.
Zaman became the first player to score a double century in ODIs scoring an unbeaten 210 against Zimbabwe on 20th Jule 2018; just 2 days later, in the 5th match of the series, Zaman became the fastest player to score 1000 runs in One Day Internationals, reaching the milestone in just 18 innings, beating the previous record of 21 innings held by 5 cricketers together.
In the 50 ODIs he has played, he has scored 2,262 runs at a strike rate of 97.12 and an average of 49.17, scoring 6 tons, 13 half-centuries, and 1 double-century.
In just 50 ODIs, he has hit 255 boundaries and 45 sixes.
8. Francois du Plessis(SA)
Francois du Plessis is a South African cricketer and ranks 5th among the top 10 batsmen in the world at the moment with 719 points. He is a prominent midfielder and captain of the local cricket team. Born on 13 July 1984 in Pretoria, Pretoria, Transvaal Province, South Africa, he made his ODI debut in 2011 against India, where he scored 60 runs left out.
In 2019, Francois du Plessis was named South Africa's best player in the Men's category. He has played 3 ICC World Cups - 2011, 2015, and 2019. In the 39 games he has captained, Plessis has beaten New Zealand to win 28 games.
9. David Warner(AUS)
An Australian cricketer is currently ranked 6th in the top 10 ODI Batsmen in the world. His full name is David Andrew Warner, and he was born on 27th October 1986 in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He has served as captain of the Australian cricket team and is still open to them.
In 2009, Warner made his ODI debut at the age of 20 against South Africa, where he recently scored 5 runs; however, since 1877, he is the first Australian cricketer to have ever played the First-Class match.
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At the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, while playing against Afghanistan, he scored 178 goals in his career that helped Australia reach the highest level at any 417/6 World Cup.
10. Shai Hope(WI)
Shai Diego Hope is a 27-year-old Barbadian cricketer who made his ODI debut on 16 November 2016 in his second tri-series match against Sri Lanka. Themba beat his first 100 ODI International match in his second match against Zimbabwe in the same series. He is the only Barbadian cricketer in the top 10 of the ICC ODI Men Batsmen globally in 2021.
Of the 81 ODIs Hope played, he scored 52.94 and 74.91 strikes. He also scored 10 centuries with a very high score of 170 off just 152 balls that hit Ireland on 5 May 2019 in a three-nation series. He has achieved 19 half of the century in ODI so far.
Shai Hope is a wicket-keeper who holds the right hand.
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