The historic Melbourne Cricket Ground is not one of India’s favourite venues overseas as out of the 18 matches India played at the G, the men in Blue has managed to finish on the winning side only 8 times losing the remaining ten. The wicket at the MCG is not known to assist the batsmen but some of India’s batsmen have managed to score runs under their belt in the past. Former skipper Kris Srikanth leads the chart with 368 runs from 9 innings with an average of 46.00. Following him is legendary Indian Sunil Gavaskar and Srikanth’s opening partner Sunil Gavaskar who has an average of 41.14 courtesy his 288 runs in 7 innings.
Dilip Vengsarkar comes in third with 258 runs in 9 innings with an average of 43 followed by Ravi Shastri who has 199 runs in 7 innings at 33.16 per match. Rohit Sharma, who holds the record for the highest ever ODI score comes in fifth with 198 runs in just 3 innings at an average of 99. Rohit is also the only the second Indian batsman to score a 100 at MCG with Sourav Ganguly being the other Indian to do so. Here is the list of top 5 run scorers for India at the MCG.
|
Player |
Matches |
Inningss |
Runs |
Highest |
Average |
Strike-Rate |
100 |
50 |
|
Kris Srikkanth |
9 |
9 |
368 |
93* |
46.00 |
69.30 |
0 |
3 |
|
Sunil Gavaskar |
9 |
7 |
288 |
80 |
41.14 |
54.96 |
0 |
4 |
|
Dilip Vengsarkar |
9 |
9 |
258 |
77* |
43.00 |
64.98 |
0 |
1 |
|
Ravi Shastri |
9 |
7 |
199 |
63* |
33.16 |
47.95 |
0 |
2 |
|
Rohit Sharma |
3 |
3 |
198 |
138 |
99.00 |
89.59 |
1 |
0 |
*Stats updated till 21 February 2015.