Stats: Top Five Players With The Highest Strike Rates In ODIs

Smashing a 60-ball hundred in an ODI game and maintaining that strike rate throughout the career is altogether a different thing that not many players can do. Not every player can be termed destructive in an ODI format. 

Let's take a look at the top five players with the highest strike rates(minimum 100 innings played): 

1) Glenn Maxwell: 

Australia's one of the most destructive batters and rightly so. Glenn Maxwell, in 106 innings, has a strike rate of 125.43 - the highest among those who have batted more than 100 innings. Maxwell has scored 3230 runs in ODIs so far. 

2) Jos Buttler: 

The wicketkeeper batter is very tough to stop once he gets going in his innings. Jos Buttler is one of England's best wk-batters in limited-overs cricket. He has a strike rate of 118.66 in 123 ODI innings. Buttler has scored 3872 runs so far. 

3) Shahid Afridi: 

When it comes to the most destructive batters in the history of cricket, Shahid Afridi's name will always be taken into consideration. In ODI cricket, Afridi had a strike rate of 117 in 369 innings. He scored 8064 runs in his ODI career. And mind you, Afridi began his cricket career in the pre-T20 era. 

4) Thisara Perera: 

Sri Lanka's underrated all-rounder Thisara Perera played 133 ODI innings in his career and maintained a strike rate of 112.08. Perera hit 2338 runs in ODIs. 

5) Virender Sehwag: 

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One of the all-time greatest opening batter Virender Sehwag was also ahead of his time in terms of his aggressive batting. Sehwag ended his ODI career with a strike rate of 104.33 in 245 innings. Sehwag scored 8273 runs in ODI format.