Most ODIs by a team: Which team has played highest number of ODI matches?

Dixit Bhargav | 03/02/2022
Most ODIs by a team: Which team has played highest number of ODI matches?

Full list of Most ODIs by a team: India are on the verge of becoming the first-ever team to play 1,000 ODI matches.

The upcoming first ODI of West Indies’ tour of India 2022 in Ahmedabad will be the first international cricket match to be played in India this year.

India vs West Indies first ODI will also put forward a new start for India captain Rohit Sharma, who will kick-start a full-time captaincy career later this week.

India, who haven’t played a home ODI for over 10 months now, will also tick this box when they will step on to the field at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday.

Having said that, a bigger occasion awaits each one of us which will make this match a historic one in real sense. In what will be India’s 1,000th ODI, it will make them the first-ever team to achieve this milestone. India, who had first played an ODI in 1974, have taken 48 years to reach the four-digit mark and are being closely followed by Australia (958) and Pakistan (936).

While the presence of fans inside the stadium would’ve completed this showpiece event, a third COVID-19 wave in the country has put a restriction on the same. As a result, this three-match ODI series will be played behind closed doors at the same venue.

Most ODIs by a team

Australia might have won the most number of ODI World Cups but the best winning percentage in ODIs belong to South Africa. Despite not winning a single ODI World Cup till date, the Proteas have managed to maintain a win percentage of 63.75 in ODIs as compared to Australia’s 63.36.

Team Span Matches Won Lost Win %
India 1974-2022 999 518 431 54.54
Australia 1971-2021 958 581 334 63.36
Pakistan 1973-2021 936 490 417 53.98
Sri Lanka 1975-2022 870 395 432 47.77
West Indies 1973-2022 834 406 388 51.11
New Zealand 1973-2021 775 354 374 48.63
England 1971-2021 761 384 339 53.07
South Africa 1991-2022 638 391 221 63.75
Zimbabwe 1983-2022 541 140 381 27.22
Bangladesh 1986-2021 388 136 245 35.69
Ireland 2006-2022 176 74 89 45.48
Kenya 1996-2014 154 42 107 28.18
Afghanistan 2009-2022 132 65 63 50.77
Netherlands 1996-2022 89 34 50 40.58
Canada 1979-2014 77 17 58 22.66
UAE 1994-2021 61 18 43 29.5
Bermuda 2006-2009 35 7 28 20
PNG 2014-2021 35 7 28 20
Hong Kong 2004-2018 26 9 16 36
USA 2004-2021 21 9 12 42.85
Oman 2019-2021 21 14 6 70
Namibia 2003-2021 16 6 10 37.5
Nepal 2018-2021 16 9 7 56.25
Asia XI 2005-2007 7 4 2 66.66
Africa XI 2005-2007 6 1 4 20
ICC World XI 2005-2005 4 1 3 25
East Africa 1975-1975 3 0 3 0
Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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