The top five records are listed for each category, except for the team wins, losses, draws and ties, all round records and the partnership records. Tied records for fifth place are also included. Explanations of the general symbols and cricketing terms used in the list are given below. Specific details are provided in each category where appropriate. All records include matches played for England only, and are correct as of July 2020[update].
Key
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Meaning
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Player or umpire is currently active in ODI cricket
As of November 2024[update], England has played 805 ODI matches resulting in 403 victories, 362 defeats, 9 ties and 31 no results for an overall winning percentage of 50.1[4]
An ODI match is won when one side has scored more runs than the total runs scored by the opposing side during their innings. If both sides have completed both their allocated innings and the side that fielded last has the higher aggregate of runs, it is known as a win by runs. This indicates the number of runs that they had scored more than the opposing side. If the side batting last wins the match, it is known as a win by wickets, indicating the number of wickets that were still to fall.[21]
Greatest win margins (by runs)
The greatest winning margin by runs in ODIs was New Zealand's victory over Ireland by 290 runs in the only ODI of the 2008 England tour. The largest victory recorded by England was during the aforementioned match against Australia in June 2018 when they won by 242 runs.[22][23]
The greatest winning margin by balls remaining in ODIs was England's victory over Canada by 8 wickets with 277 balls remaining in the 1979 Cricket World Cup.[25]
A total of 55 matches have ended with chasing team winning by 10 wickets with West Indies winning by such margins a record 10 times.[26] England have won a match by such margin on 6 occasions,[24] including chasing a score of 255 against Sri Lanka in June 2016, which is the third highest score chased without losing a wicket, behind South Africa and Australia.
South Africa holds the record for the highest successful run chase which they achieved when they scored 438/9 in response to Australia's 434/9.[28] England's highest winning total while chasing is 364/4 in a run chase against West Indies at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown during the 2019 ODI series in West Indies.[29] They have also made the higher scores in defeats.
The narrowest run margin victory is by 1 run which has been achieved in 31 ODI's with Australia winning such games a record 6 times.[30] England's has achieved a victory by 1 run on two occasions, once via revised target.[31]
The narrowest winning margin by balls remaining in ODIs is by winning of the last ball which has been achieved 36 times with both South Africa winning seven times. England has achieved a victory by this margin on three occasions.[32]
The narrowest margin of victory by wickets is 1 wicket which has settled 55 such ODIs. Both West Indies and New Zealand have recorded such victory on eight occasions. England has won the match by a margin of one wicket on seven occasions.[33]
The greatest winning margin by balls remaining in ODIs was England's victory over Canada by 8 wickets with 277 balls remaining in the 1979 Cricket World Cup. The largest defeat suffered by England was against West Indies in West Indies when they lost by 7 wickets with 227 balls remaining.[25]
England have lost an ODI match by a margin of 10 wickets on five occasions with most recent being during the Quarter-final of the 2011 Cricket World Cup against Sri Lanka in March 2001 at Colombo (SSC).
The narrowest winning margin by balls remaining in ODIs is by winning of the last ball which has been achieved 36 times with both South Africa winning seven times. England has suffered loss by this margin two times.[32]
A tie can occur when the scores of both teams are equal at the conclusion of play, provided that the side batting last has completed their innings.[21]
There have been 37 ties in ODIs history with England involved in 9 such games.[4]
Ties are no longer possible in ODIs as if scores are level at the end of the second batting team's innings, the game is decided by a 'super-over' (played ad infinitum).
This happened at the end of England's 2019 tie with New Zealand (which happened to be the World Cup final). England won after a tied super-over by virtue of a better boundary count in the 50-over game (this method is no longer used to decide games where a super-over is played after a tie at 50 overs).
A run is the basic means of scoring in cricket. A run is scored when the batsman hits the ball with his bat and with his partner runs the length of 22 yards (20 m) of the pitch.[36]
India's Sachin Tendulkar, with 18,246, has scored the most runs in ODIs, ahead of Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka with 14,234 and Ricky Ponting of Australia with 13,704. Eoin Morgan (the previous captain of the England limited-overs team) is the leading English player on this list with 6,957 runs.[37]
Qualification: 20 innings. Last updated: 28 June 2024[48]
Most half-centuries
A half-century is a score of between 50 and 99 runs. Statistically, once a batsman's score reaches 100, it is no longer considered a half-century but a century.
Andre Russell of West Indies holds the record for highest strike rate, with minimum 500 balls faced qualification, with 130.22.[55]Jos Buttler is the Englishman with the highest strike rate.
Qualification: 500 balls faced. Last updated: 7 November 2024[56]
Highest strike rates in an innings
James Franklin of New Zealand's strike rate of 387.50 during his 31* off 8 balls against Canada during 2011 Cricket World Cup is the world record for highest strike rate in an innings. Moeen Ali during his innings of 31* off 9 balls against Afghanistan at the 2019 Cricket World Cup recorded a strike rate of 344.44, the highest for an England's batsmen.[57]
Qualification: 25 runs. Last updated: 28 June 2024[58]
Most runs in a calendar year
Tendulkar holds the record for most runs scored in a calendar year with 1894 runs scored in 1998. Jonathan Trott scored 1315 runs in 2011, the most for an English batsmen in a year.[59]
A duck refers to a batsman being dismissed without scoring a run.[63]Sanath Jayasuriya has scored the highest number of ducks in ODIs with 34. Eoin Morgan holds this record for England with 15 ducks.[64]
A bowler's bowling average is the total number of runs they have conceded divided by the number of wickets they have taken.
Afghanistan's Rashid Khan holds the record for the best career average in ODIs with 18.54. Joel Garner, West Indiancricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early 1980s West Indies cricket teams, is second behind Rashid with an overall career average of 18.84 runs per wicket. Andrew Flintoff of England is the highest ranked English when the qualification of 2000 balls bowled is followed.[74]
Qualification: 2,000 balls. Last updated: 1 July 2020[75]
Best career economy rate
A bowler's economy rate is the total number of runs they have conceded divided by the number of overs they have bowled.[63]
West Indies' Joel Garner, holds the ODI record for the best career economy rate with 3.09. England's Bob Willis, with a rate of 3.28 runs per over conceded over his 64-match ODI career, is the highest English on the list when the minimum qualification of 2,000 balls bowled is kept.[76]
Qualification: 2,000 balls. Last updated: 22 June 2022[77]
Best career strike rate
A bowler's strike rate is the total number of balls they have bowled divided by the number of wickets they have taken.[63]
The top bowler with the best ODI career strike rate is South Africa's Lungi Ngidi with strike rate of 23.2 balls per wicket. England's Liam Plunkett is the highest ranked English in this list.[78]
A five-wicket haul refers to a bowler taking five wickets in a single innings.[82]Chris Woakes is the highest ranked Englishman on the list of most five-wicket hauls which is headed by Pakistan's Waqar Younis with 13 such hauls.[83]
Qualification: 30 balls bowled. Last updated: 1 July 2020[86]
Best strike rates in an inning
The best strike rate in an inning, when a minimum of 3 wickets are taken by the player, was achieved by Ajay Jadeja of India, who once achieved a strike rate of 2.0 balls per wicket.[87]
The worst figures in an ODI came in the 5th One Day International between South Africa at home to Australia in 2006. Australia's Mick Lewis returned figures of 0/113 from his 10 overs in the second innings of the match.[89][90] The worst figures by an English is 0/97 that came off the bowling of Steve Harmison in the 2006 ODI Series against Sri Lanka at Headingley, Leeds.[91]
Mick Lewis also holds the dubious distinction of most runs conceded in an ODI during the aforementioned match. Harmison in the above-mentioned spell holds the English record.[92]
Pakistan's Saqlain Mushtaq holds the record for most wickets taken in a year when he took 69 wickets in 1997 in 36 ODIs. England's John Emburey is the highest English bowler on the list having taken 43 wickets in 1987.[94]
In cricket, a hat-trick occurs when a bowler takes three wickets with consecutive deliveries. The deliveries may be interrupted by an over bowled by another bowler from the other end of the pitch, but must be three consecutive deliveries by the individual bowler in the same match. Only wickets attributed to the bowler count towards a hat-trick; run outs do not count.
In ODI history there have been just 49 hat-tricks, the first achieved by Jalal-ud-Din for Pakistan against Australia in 1982.
The wicket-keeper is a specialist fielder who stands behind the stumps being guarded by the batsman on strike and is the only member of the fielding side allowed to wear gloves and leg pads.[101]
Most career dismissals
A wicket-keeper can be credited with the dismissal of a batsman in two ways, caught or stumped. A fair catch is taken when the ball is caught fully within the field of play without it bouncing after the ball has touched the striker's bat or glove holding the bat,[102][103] Laws 5.6.2.2 and 5.6.2.3 state that the hand or the glove holding the bat shall be regarded as the ball striking or touching the bat while a stumping occurs when the wicket-keeper puts down the wicket while the batsman is out of his ground and not attempting a run.[104]
Current England wicket-keeper Jos Buttler has made the seventh-most dismissals in ODIs as a designated wicket-keeper, with Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara and Australian Adam Gilchrist heading the list.[105]
Ten wicket-keepers on 15 occasions have taken six dismissals in a single innings in an ODI. Adam Gilchrist of Australia alone has done it six times. Buttler, Stewart and Prior have also achieved this feat once in their career.[111]
Caught is one of the nine methods a batsman can be dismissed in cricket.[a] The majority of catches are caught in the slips, located behind the batsman, next to the wicket-keeper, on the off side of the field. Most slip fielders are top order batsmen.[116][117]
South Africa's Jonty Rhodes is the only fielder to have taken five catches in an innings.[120] The feat of taking 4 catches in an innings has been achieved by 42 fielders on 44 occasions, with Chris Woakes being the only England fielder to do so.[121]
India's Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most ODI matches played with 463, with former captains Mahela Jayawardene and Sanath Jayasuriya being second and third having represented Sri Lanka on 443 and 441 occasions, respectively. Eoin Morgan is the most experienced England player having represented the team on 225 occasions.[129]
Tendulkar also holds the record for the most consecutive ODI matches played with 185. He broke Richie Richardson's long standing record of 132 matches.[131]
Ricky Ponting, who led the Australian cricket team from 2002 to 2012, holds the record for the most matches played as captain in ODIs with 230 (including 1 as captain of ICC World XI team). 2019 Cricket World Cup winning skipper Eoin Morgan has led England in 126 matches.[132]
The youngest player to play in an ODI match is claimed to be Hasan Raza at the age of 14 years and 233 days. Making his debut for Pakistan against Zimbabwe on 30 October 1996, there is some doubt as to the validity of Raza's age at the time.[134] The youngest England player to play in an ODI was Rehan Ahmed who at the age of 18 years and 205 days debuted in the third ODI of the series against Bangladesh in March 2023.[135]
In cricket, two batsmen are always present at the crease batting together in a partnership. This partnership will continue until one of them is dismissed, retires or the innings comes to a close.
Highest partnerships by wicket
A wicket partnership describes the number of runs scored before each wicket falls. The first wicket partnership is between the opening batsmen and continues until the first wicket falls. The second wicket partnership then commences between the not out batsman and the number three batsman. This partnership continues until the second wicket falls. The third wicket partnership then commences between the not out batsman and the new batsman. This continues down to the tenth wicket partnership. When the tenth wicket has fallen, there is no batsman left to partner so the innings is closed.
The highest ODI partnership by runs for any wicket is held by the West Indian pairing of Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels who put together a second wicket partnership of 372 runs during the 2015 Cricket World Cup against Zimbabwe in February 2015. This broke the record of 331 runs set by Indian pair of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid against New Zealand in 1999[142]
An asterisk (*) signifies an unbroken partnership (i.e. neither of the batsmen was dismissed before either the end of the allotted overs or the required score being reached). Last updated: 30 November 2022[144]
Umpiring records
Most matches umpired
An umpire in cricket is a person who officiates the match according to the Laws of Cricket. Two umpires adjudicate the match on the field, whilst a third umpire has access to video replays, and a fourth umpire looks after the match balls and other duties. The records below are only for on-field umpires.
Currently active Aleem Dar of Pakistan holds the record for the most ODI matches umpired with 229. He is followed by Rudi Koertzen of South Africa and New Zealand's Billy Bowden, who officiated in 209 and 200 matches respectively. The most experienced English is David Shepherd who stood in 172 ODI matches.[145]
