Players with 10000 Runs and 100 Wickets in ODI cricket

Playing the ODI format successfully requires a different set of skills as one needs to have a composure that is required for Test matches and attacking mindset as in the T20s. Though a team needs specialist batters and bowlers to do the job, player with all-round skills offer a different dimension to the squad.

It doesn’t necessarily mean an all-rounder who is expected to bat and bowl every game but one who can roll over the arm whenever required. This roughly means a top-order batter who can chip in with the ball whenever required by the team. While the art of batters rolling their arm over is dying currently in ODIs, it was a common fixture back in the glorious years of ODI cricket. The other thing is, it will be impractical for us to think that a middle-order batter who plays as an all-rounder will be able to achieve the 10K milestone in ODIs although, they can pick over 100 wickets.

So this article celebrates the cricketers who have not only consistently delivered for their respective nations not just with the bat but also were quite useful with the ball in hand. Here are the list of cricketers who have completed a stunning double 10000 runs and 100 wickets in ODI cricket.

Key Stats

There have 15 batsmen in the history of ODI cricket to amass 10000 runs or more, while 170 cricketers took 100 or more wickets in the format. Only 6 of them have completed a double of making 10000 runs and scalping 100 plus wickets in ODI cricket. If we take a closer look at their batting position, they are either openers or would have batted in the top-order.

They are Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya, Jacques Kallis, Sourav Ganguly, Chris Gayle, and TM Dilshan. Interestingly, all these players have 100 or more catches to their name in the format, making it a treble of 10000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches.

Sachin has scored the most runs with 18426 and he has done at an average of 44.83 with 49 tons. Jacques Kallis (44.36) and Sourav Ganguly (41.02) are the other two players who averaged 40 plus with 10000 runs and 100 wickets.

Sanath Jayasuriya’s tally of 323 wickets is most among players with more than 10K runs in ODI cricket. While he averaged 36.75 with the ball, Kallis’ 31.79 is the best amongst this 6 legends when it comes to the bowling averages in ODI cricket.

Not even 1 from the other 9 batters to have scored over 10K runs in ODI runs has taken more than 9 ODI wickets. India skipper Rohit Sharma is a distant seventh with 9 wickets to his kitty, followed by Jayawardene who has 8 of them.

Aravinda de Silva (9284 runs and 106 wickets), Yuvraj Singh (8701 runs and 111 wickets), Shahid Afridi (8064 runs and 395 wickets), and Virender Sehwag (8586 runs and 96 wickets) all came close to joining them, but missed out on the elite list by not much.