India made 402 against Afghanistan on Wednesday at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. It was their first 400-plus total in an ODI in more than 30 months.
Shubman Gill, the captain, led it with 154 off 110 balls, his ninth ODI hundred. Ishan Kishan, back in the side, was quicker still. He got to his century in 71 balls and passed 1,000 ODI runs along the way, the sixth Indian to do so in 26 innings or fewer. Rohit Sharma chipped in a brisk 48 before Rashid Khan bowled him, but the Gill and Kishan stand had already done the heavy lifting.
Afghanistan leaned on Rashid and Ghazanfar. Neither found much as India sped up late in the innings.
The last time
The previous 400-plus score came at the 2023 World Cup, when India made 410/4 against the Netherlands at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul both hit centuries that day. Nothing close followed until Lucknow.
It was the eighth time India have cleared 400 in ODIs, and the six opponents on that list now include Afghanistan.
Where it sits in the record books
England own the all-time mark: 498/4 against the Netherlands in Amstelveen in 2022. They broke the world record three times between 2016 and 2022, and they hold the second and third highest totals as well. Sri Lanka and South Africa fill out the top five.
India’s best, 418/5, is only seventh. Three Indian totals sit between sixth and tenth place, and Australia has two of the others in that half of the table.
Every one of India’s 400-plus innings had a big individual score at its core. Virender Sehwag anchored the three highest, including his 219 against the West Indies in Indore in 2011. Sachin Tendulkar’s unbeaten 200 against South Africa carried another, and made him the first batsman to score an ODI double century.
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- India post 402 in 2nd ODI against Afghanistan to equal… – News9live
- Highest ODI score by India: 418/5 leads and eight totals of 400-plus
