Overview:-
One-Day Internationals have undergone plenty of transformations since Ashes rivals Australia and England faced off against each other for the time in 1971.
The team management would invariably want the best batsmen in the side to spend maximum time out in the middle as the list for most ODI innings played in each position would suggest, the gap in the number of innings gets bigger as we move down.
| Batting position | Player | Runs | Average | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opener |  Sachin Tendulkar |
15310 | 48.30 | ||
| Number 3 |  Ricky Ponting |
12662 | 42.49 | ||
| Number 4 |  Mahela Jayawardene |
6946 | 35.26 | ||
| Number 5 | Arjuna Ranatunga |
4675 | 38.64 | ||
| Number 6 | MS Dhoni |
3823 | 46.62 | ||
| Number 7 |  Chris Harris |
2130 | 31.32 | ||
| Number 8 |  Wasim Akram |
1208 | 17.01 | ||
| Number 9 |  Mashrafe Mortaza |
643 | 12.61 | ||
| Number 10 | Waqar Younis |
478 | 11.12 | ||
| Number 11 | Muttiah Muralitharan |
170 | 5.48 | ||
| Last updated: 21 September 2017 | |||||
