Most runs in a bilateral ODI series

#5 Hamilton Masakadza

He held the record for four years

The Zimbabwe opener career has also been about the sublime or the ridiculous. While the big-hitting right-hander does make the game look so effortless at times, he hasn't been able to do it on a consistent basis. The one time he managed to achieve that was in a five-match ODI series against Kenya in 2009.

Masakadza scored 467 runs from five matches at an unbelievable average of 116 and strike rate of 97. He scored a fifty and two centuries against a hapless Kenyan bowling line-up who simply had no clue as to how to deal with the destructive ability of the right-hander.

Although it is almost a decade since that series, only four more players in the history of ODIs managed to score more than Masakadza in a bilateral ODI series and for four years between 2009 and 2013, the Zimbabwe batsman was the proud owner of this record.