Best ODI XI of the decade among retired players
There are numerous cricketers who hung up their boots this decade and called it quits either solely from ODI format or from all formats.
2. Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar’s name might surprise a few, considering that he played just three years of ODI cricket in this decade. It was in December 2012 that Tendulkar decided to bid adieu to ODI cricket. He retired with a mammoth 18426 runs, 49 hundreds and 96 half-centuries in the 50-over format.
However, in this decade, the ‘Master Blaster’ played 23 ODI games with nine of them coming in the 2011 World Cup. In that tournament, he scored 482 runs at an average of 53.55 and finished as the second-highest run-getter of that World Cup.
Overall, Tendulkar scored 1032 runs in ODI cricket this decade before hanging up his boots. He averaged 46.90 and had a strike-rate of 92.30. He also scored four tons and three half-centuries. In fact, his 100th international ton was also in an ODI which was his penultimate game in 50-over cricket.
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