What are the best ODI innings ever?

[venkyrenga]

I will just mention some off the top of my head,

Kapil Dev 175*(138) v Zim 1983
Viv Richards 189*(170) v Eng 1984
Bevan 78*(88) v WI 1996
Sachin 143(131) & 134(131) v Aus 1998
Jayasuriya 189(161) v Ind 2000
Herschelle Gibbs 175(111) v Aus 2006
Gilchrist 149(104) v SL 2007
Kevin O'Brien 113(63) v Eng 2011
Dhoni 91*(79) v SL 2011
Virat Kohli 133*(86) v SL 2012
Rohit Sharma 264(173) v SL 2014
De Villiers 149(44) & 162*(66) v WI 2015

 

[vcs]

Tendulkar 175(141) vs. Australia
Tendulkar 98(75) vs. Pakistan
Buttler 110*(122) vs. Australia
Razzaq 109*(72) vs. South Africa

I think Kevin O'Brien's innings has a decent case for greatest ODI knock of all time, all things considered. Definitely up there with Kapil against Zimbabwe.

 

[trundler]

Anwar 194
Richards 138

 

[Shri]

i saw anwar's 194 live at the stadium

 

[Slifer]

Lara 128 vs Pakistan featuring Wasim and Waqar '93 in South Africa

Lara 111* vs RSA featuring Donald, Fannie etc in '93 again in south Africa

Viv 153 vs Australia I believe in 1979 or so

 

[vcs]

Yeah Lara's knocks in that otherwise extremely low-scoring series were insane. He also made 150-odd not out to take WI to the win in that Sharjah match where Basit Ali randomly went bonkers.

Also, I have a soft spot for Robin Smith's innings in this game.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...di-australia-tour-of-england-and-ireland-1993

 

[OverratedSanity]

 

[Shri]

watched that live on tv with my cousin too

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Tamim's 154
A couple of Jacob Oram's knocks in 06/07

 

[Teja.]

Rohit Sharma 214 in Colombo vs Indrajit, Ravana and Khumbhakharna in 201z.

 

[vcs]

Never watched that innings before, quite a gem. How bad were India at the end there, no ball after no ball.. even if they'd avoided those, they would have probably won.

 

[andmark]

Ben Stokes had a decent one recently.

 

[mr_mister]

Steve Waugh's 120* v SA in '99
Mark Waugh's 110 v NZ in '96

 

[stephen]

Steve Waugh's 120* v SA in '99
Mark Waugh's 110 v NZ in '96

To follow that first one up,
Bevan 65 v SA in 99. Wasn't the highest scoring knock but set up one of the top two ODIs of all time.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Pls forgive the Aus focus, seen a lot more of them than others:

Bevan 102* v NZ in 2001/02, think it was at the MCG. Insane innings.
Symonds 143* v Pak 2003 World Cup
Symonds 91 v SL 2003 World Cup semi final, Aus were in trouble on a very slow wicket
Ponting 140* 2003 World Cup final
Mark Waugh 173 v WI in Tri-series final at the MCG
Gilchrist made a 60-70-ball hundred against someone at home around 2006-ish
Hayden 60-ball hundred against SA in 2007 World Cup group match
Stoinis 140-odd v NZ recently

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Rutherford 34(33) vs. Sri Lanka 1995
Vincent 20(59) vs. West Indies 2002

 

[Burgey]

Never watched that innings before, quite a gem. How bad were India at the end there, no ball after no ball.. even if they'd avoided those, they would have probably won.

Will always be a stain on Dilshan's character that he accepted the shot being called the "Dil Scoop" instead of it being labelled the "Marillier Thrillier", which it plainly should have been.

 

[h_hurricane]

Some early ODI great innings

Clive Lloyd 102 in WC final 1975, proved to be the difference between Aus or WI winning apart from Richards' runouts.
Glenn Turner 171 in WC 1975.
Viv Richards 153 in Melbourne 1979, insane innings, way ahead of its time.
Kapil Dev 72 of 38 balls against ATG WI attack just before 1983 WC, gave India the belief that they can win against WI.
Javed Miandad hundred in Sharjah cup final in mid 80s.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Will always be a stain on Dilshan's character that he accepted the shot being called the "Dil Scoop" instead of it being labelled the "Marillier Thrillier", which it plainly should have been.

Never understood people calling it the Dilscoop. Plenty did it before him, and after Marillier. First bloke I saw doing it was Ryan Campbell.

 

[TheBrand]

Stoinis 146* vs NZ at Eden Park. Best ODI innings I've ever seen (and I'm a kiwi too)