India vs Australia: Top 5 players fastest to 9000 ODI runs

#4 Sourav Ganguly (228 innings)

Sourav Ganguly

The former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly completed his 9000 ODI runs in January 2004 playing against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Ganguly opened the batting with Sachin Tendulkar for a number of years before he decided to put himself down at no. 3 to give a young Virender Sehwag the opportunity to play at the top with Tendulkar.

Ganguly also opened the batting with Sehwag for a few months when Tendulkar was out because of his tennis elbow injury.

Being a left-hander, he was an ideal foil for both Tendulkar and Sehwag. He allowed his partner at the other end to get off to a flyer while settling himself into his innings before going berserk against the spinners in the middle overs.

The left-hander played 311 ODI games for India in a 15-year long ODI career, scoring 11,363 runs at an average of 40.73. Ganguly is fourth in the list of the players who have scored the most number of ODI hundreds for India. He scored 22 hundreds and 72 half-centuries in ODI cricket.