Highest scores by batting positions in ODIs

Number 2: Rohit Sharma – 264 v Sri Lanka:

Rohit Sharma became the only batsman in the history of the game to score 2 double centuries and the only player to score in excess of 250 in ODIs when he hit 264 against Sri Lanka at Kolkata in November 2014.

Having played a maiden off Angelo Mathews at the beginning of the innings, this was his comeback match after 10 weeks. As usual, he started cautiously scoring his fifty in 72 balls but he did up the ante after that by scoring a run a ball century.

He started building a crescendo with 150 coming in 25 balls and his second ODI double century coming in 151 balls. His next 64 runs came in 22 balls as he ended with a gigantic 264 off 173 balls with 33 fours and 9 sixes to his name. Courtesy his knock, India posted 404 and yet again won by 153 runs as Sri Lanka managed just 251.