#2 Sachin Tendulkar - 06
The batting great didn’t enjoy the most enjoyable of times as captain, but did not let the additional burden deter him from scoring runs the way he did for the rest of his career. Although there was drop in his batting average, he scored some of his best innings as ODI captain, including the 186* which was the highest score by an Indian for quite some time, before Tendulkar himself revised it in 2010 with the first double hundred of the format.
In 73 matches, he scored six centuries, compiling 2454 runs over a period that extended from 1996-2000, before the captaincy was given to a young Sourav Ganguly. Overall, he scored as many as 49 tons in a career that extended from 1989 to 2012..
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