Rohit Sharma at 7000 vs top 5 run-scorers in ODI history: a statistical comparision  

#2) Kumar Sangakkara (14,234 Runs)

Kumar Sangakkara is the third Sri Lankan and the 4th Subcontinental player on the list. This stat gives an indication of how the pitches and the number of ODIs that a player plays has an impact on the final runs tally that he ends up with.

Sangakkara has 25 centuries to his name and Rohit is just 6 centuries away from that tally. Rohit is also ahead of Sangakkara in terms of the number of Innings taken to reach the 7000 runs mark as the Lankan took 221 innings to get to mount 7K.

Sangakkara has scored more than 14,000 ODI runs and it would be a Herculean task for Rohit to go past that mark. Rohit has scored close to 1900 runs in the last 2 years at a mind-boggling average of 68 and if he continues this for the next 7 years then he might have a chance of going past Sangakkara's tally.