#1 Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin was the batting lynch pin of the Indian ODI team for almost two decades. The 'Master Blaster' hailed as the greatest batsman in the modern era was India’s greatest match winner with the willow. Sachin had the penchant of scoring match winning hundreds with superlative consistency and taking the team across the finishing line.
In the late 90 and first decade of the new millennium, the Indian team’s fortunes in white ball cricket were heavily dependent on Sachin’s run-scoring exploits. Sachin racked up a staggering 51 ODI centuries. Besides his prolific run-scoring with the bat, he was a pretty handy bowler who scalped over 150 ODI wickets with his mixed bag of deliveries. Tendulkar won the most number of man of the match awards in a glittering career which saw him make over 450 appearances.
Matches - 463
Man of the Match - 62
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