5 active cricketers who have had the longest career span in ODIs

Modified Nov 09, 2018 21:29 IST

Sachin scored 49 hundred and 96 fifties in his 22-year ODI career

#2 Chris Gayle - 18 years and 320 days

The 'Universal boss', currently famous for globetrotting for his T20 league stints across the world, although absent from the West Indian squad for India, is still a part of West Indies' ODI scheme of things.

Chris made his ODI debut against India in Toronto on Sep 11, 1999, where he was bowled on the score of 1 by Robin Singh. He last featured in an ODI in July 2018 against Bangladesh where he scored 73 runs.

The explosive opening batsman holds quite a few records in International cricket for his team. He has the highest score (215), most hundreds (23), the second highest runs (9672), the second highest average (37.34) among active West Indian cricketers and the third highest number of fifties (71) by a West Indian in One-Day Internationals.

He took his retirement from Tests in 2014 to focus on his limited-overs career.

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Edited by Sarah Waris