Stats: Highest individual ODI scores for each year starting from 1971 to 2015

Tendulkar's unbeaten 200 turned out to be the highest score of the year 2010

There are many well-known ODI centuries made by players that most of us have heard of. Many of us know about Sachin Tendulkar’s 200 runs or Saeed Anwar and Charles Coventry’s 194 runs each. Every die-hard cricket fan will know about Rohit Sharma’s two double centuries in ODIs or Kapil Dev’s 175* runs against Zimbabwe in ODIs.

But do you know the highest score made by a player in each year starting from 1971 to 2015 in ODIs? You might have read about all who hold the records for the respective ages in ODIs, but you may not know the same for years.

Even if you are a cricket fanatic, some of the record holders will certainly surprise you. While some legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara are on this list, there are some you would least suspect of holding the record.

So, here we have presented a table that includes the highest score made by players in each year starting from 1971 to 2015 in ODI cricket to this day:

Year	Player name	Country	Runs	Opposition	Ground
1971	John Edrich	England	82	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground
1972	Dennis Amiss	England	103	Australia	Old Trafford
1973	Roy Fredericks	West Indies	105	England	Kennington Oval
1974	David Lloyd	England	116*	Pakistan	Trent Bridge
1975	Glenn Turner	New Zealand	171*	East Africa	Edgbaston
1976	Viv Richards	West Indies	119*	England	North Marine Road Ground
1977	Gregory Chappell	Australia	125*	England	Kennington Oval
1978	Desmond Haynes	West Indies	148	Australia	Antigua Recreation Ground
1979	Viv Richards	West Indies	153*	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground
1980	Gregory Chappell	Australia	138*	New Zealand	Sydney Cricket Ground
1981	Bruce Laird	Australia	117*	West Indies	Sydney Cricket Ground
1982	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan	123	Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium
1983	Kapil Dev	India	175*	Zimbabwe	Nevill Ground
1984	Viv Richards	West Indies	189*	England	Old Trafford
1985	Desmond Haynes	West Indies	145*	New Zealand	Albion Sports Complex
1986	Charles Athey	England	142*	New Zealand	Old Trafford
1987	Viv Richards	West Indies	181	Sri Lanka	National Stadium
1988	Desmond Haynes	West Indies	142*	Pakistan	Queen’s Park Oval
1989	Desmond Haynes	West Indies	152*	India	Bourda
1990	Dean Jones	Australia	145	England	Brisbane Cricket Ground
1991	Richie Richardson	West Indies	122	Pakistan	Sharjah Cricket Stadium
1992	Philip Simmons	West Indies	122	South Africa	Sabina Park
1993	Robin Smith	England	167*	Australia	Edgbaston
1994	David Callaghan	South Africa	169*	New Zealand	SuperSport Park
1995	Brian Lara	West Indies	169	Sri Lanka	Sharjah Cricket Stadium
1996	Gary Kirsten	South Africa	188*	United Arab Emirates	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
1997	Saeed Anwar	Pakistan	194	India	MA Chidambaram Stadium
1998	Mohammad Azharuddin	India	153*	Zimbabwe	Barabati Stadium
1999	Sachin Tendulkar	India	186*	New Zealand	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium
2000	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	189	India	Sharjah Cricket Stadium
2001	Mark Waugh	Australia	173	West Indies	Melbourne Cricket Ground
2002	Dinesh Mongia	India	159*	Zimbabwe	Nehru Stadium (Guwahati)
2003	Craig Wishart	Zimbabwe	172*	Namibia	Harare Sports Club
2004	Adam Gilchrist	Austraia	172	Zimbabwe	Bellerive Oval
2005	MS Dhoni	India	183*	Sri Lanka	Sawai Mansingh Stadium
2006	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	175	Australia	The Wanderers Stadium
2007	Matthew Hayden	Australia	181*	New Zealand	Seddon Park
2008	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	166	Ireland	Mannofield Park
2009	Charles Coventry	Zimbabwe	194*	Bangladesh	Queens Sports Club
2010	Sachin Tendulkar	India	200*	South Africa	Captain Roop Singh Stadium
2011	Virender Sehwag	India	219	West Indies	Holkar Cricket Stadium
2012	Virat Kohli	India	183	Pakistan	Shere Bangla National Stadium
2013	Rohit Sharma	India	209	Australia	M Chinnaswamy Stadium
2014	Rohit Sharma	India	264	Sri Lanka	Eden Gardens
2015	Martin Guptil	New Zealand	237*	West Indies	Westpack Stadium

Here is an another table that shows team-wise distributions of highest scores made by their players in ODI cricket:

Count	Team
12	West Indies
10	India
7	Australia
5	England
3	New Zealand
3	South Africa
2	Zimbabwe
2	Pakistan
1	Sri Lanka

By observing the first table, we can see that there are two players – Viv Richards and Desmond Haynes – who had made the highest ODI scores in four different calendar years which is a record while Gregory Chappell, Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma had made the highest ODI scores in two different calendar years, and the rest of the players had done that only one time.