ICC ODI Batting Rankings

RANK	Player	Country	Rating
1	Virat Kohli	IND	857
2	Hashim Amla	SA	844
3	George Bailey	AUS	835
4	Kumar Sangakkara	SL	829
5	AB de Villiers	SA	826
6	MS Dhoni	IND	780
7	Jonathon Trott	ENG	754
8	Tillakaratne Dilshan	SL	746
9	Misbah-ul-Haq	PAK	720
10	Shane Watson	AUS	708
11	Shikhar Dhawan	IND	688
12	Michael Clarke	AUS	677
13	Ross Taylor	NZ	662
14	Alastair Cook	ENG	661
15	Rohit Sharma	IND	655
16	Martin Guptill	NZ	654
17	Umar Akmal	PAK	648
17	Eoin Morgan	ENG	648
19	Suresh Raina	IND	641
20	Brendon McCullum	NZ	639

 Virat Kohli became the No 1 Batsman in ODI Cricket after a superb batting show against Australia in the just-concluded series, in which he scored 344 runs at an average of 114.66    Virat Kohli had scores of 61 (in Pune), 100 not out (in Jaipur), 68 (in Mohali), 115 not out (in Nagpur) and 0 (in Bengaluru) Virat Kohli has now become the third India batsman to hold the number-one batting rank in ODI cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar and M S Dhoni Sachin Tendulkar topped the rankings 5 times in -Nov 1994,March 1998,May 2000,early 2012 and Oct 2010

endulkar topped the batting tables five times in his career -- November 1994, March 1998, May 2000, early 2002 and October 2010

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M S Dhoni first reached number one when he took over from Ricky Ponting in April 2006. He was last ranked number one in July 2010.    .