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Quiz! Name the world record holders for the highest men’s ODI score

by Wisden Staff 4 minute play

Can you name the 12 players to have held the world record for the highest individual score in men’s ODIs and ace this quiz?

From the very first ODI to the present day, the holder of the world record for the highest score in a men’s ODI innings has changed hands 11 times. Two countries have seen a disproportionate number of record-breaking efforts, with England having hosted six of the first seven, and India four of the last five.

Half the innings were unbeaten, while the spread of when the record’s were achieved is also notable. After seven different players claimed the world record in the first 14 years of the existence of the format, it took another two gaps of 13 years for the record to be broken just twice more. However, since the turn of the 2010s, another three high scores have been smashed.

Can you name the 12 men to go where no man had gone before? You’ve got four minutes to get as many answers as you can.


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