Most runs in ODI career

Fact File

• Dada is the fourth Indian to have played in more than 300 One Day Internationals.  
• Sourav’s more than 2/3 runs in international cricket( scored nearly 19000 runs) came from ODI.

• In terms of overall runs scored in ODIs, Sourav Ganguly(11363) is the second among Indians after Sachin Tendulkar (who has the highest ODI runs in the world) and the fourth in the world - bettered only by Sachin, Jaysuria and Inzamam –ul-Haque

• Ganguly has 22 centuries in ODIs, in terms of number of centuries in ODIs, he is only behind Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya and Ricky Ponting. 
• Sourav scored 183 against Sri Lanka at Taunton in the 1999 cricket World Cup, the highest by an Indian in World Cup cricke.He holds the record, shared with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183. 
• 18 of  his 22 ODI centuries have been in winning causes

• Sourav is one of only seven batsmen to score more than 10,000 runs in ODIs. 
• Ganguly is the fourth player to cross 11,000 ODI runs and third player to cross 10,000 ODI runs and so far the fastest in ODI history, after Sachin Tendulkar. 

• Sourav is the sixth on the all time list with 32 man of the match awards. 
   
• He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODIs. 
   
• India's most successful ODI captain. 
   
• First Indian to score an ODI century against Australia in Australia. 
   
• Highest ODI runs scorer in the world (in a calendar year) in 1997, 1999, 2000. 
• He also reached 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 ODI runs milestones in the fewest number of matches. 

• Third in the list of hitting maximum number of sixes in ODIs. 

• Sourav holds the record of most 200+ ODI partnerships (6 times) along with Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting. 
• Dada holds the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for most 1st wicket ODI partnerships of 175+ runs (7 times). 
• Sourav held the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in an ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 2006 at Headingley. 
   
• Sourav was involved in the first 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid. 
   
• Second in the list of highest number of centuries in a single calendar year ever. 7 centuries in 2000

The ODI match-winner

When Ganguly scored runs in ODIs, India usually ended up on the winning side. Batting at the top of the order was a huge advantage, and Ganguly made it count, averaging more than 55 in ODIs that India won. Those are numbers that put him in elite company: among batsmen who scored at least 2500 runs in wins, only five have a higher average. Eighteen of his 22 centuries came in victories, which converts into an impressive percentage of 81.82.

Top three Sixers

Sourav Ganguly achieved a rare feat 
 
Sourav Ganguly had become the fourth player to score a hundred and take four or more wickets in a LOI match. He achieved this distinction against Sri Lanka at Nagpur on 22nd March, 1999 in the second match of the Triangular series being played in India. The other Indian who has done this is Sachin Tendulkar.

Ganguly carries his bat 
 
Sourav Ganguly was only the third Indian to carry his bat through a (completed) LOI innings. The other two instances occurred almost a decade ago when Ravi Shastri batted through the Indian innings against the same opponent - Sri Lanka, at the same ground - VCA Ground, Nagpur. 
 
There have been many instances of Indian openers batting through an innings, but the following lists only those when India were batting first. When batting second, the only such remarkable instance was Sunil Gavaskar's 'famous' 36 not out against England in the 60 over innings of 1975 World Cup. Others are when India won without the stipulated number of overs being completed, and hence, would not qualify for this table.

Champions’ trophy

• Sourav Ganguly holds the record for most runs in the Champions Trophy. In 13 games he has scored 665 runs at 73.88 with three 50s and three 100s.
• Sourav Ganguly also holds the record of scoring most runs in a single edition of the tournament. His 348 runs he scored in the 2000 World Cup in Kenya is the highest. He did that at 116.00 with two hundreds.
• Sourav Ganguly holds the record of striking most sixes too in the Champions Trophy, so far belting 17.