Top 5 highest ODIs totals in international cricket

Although India scored a mammoth 414 runs against Sri Lanka in the first of the five one-day internationals (ODIs) Tuesday, it is still not the highest total in the international cricket.

However, it was India's highest total ever against any international team.

Sri Lanka has the privilege to score most runs in an ODI innings when it scored massive 443 for 9 in 50 overs against the Netherlands in 2006 on Amstelveen ground.

The second and third highest ODI total were scored in the same match played between the

two powerhouses of the cricketing world in the Wanderers Stadium of Johannesburg on March 12, 2006.

As cricket pundits term it the most memorable cricket match in history, Australia batting first scored huge 434 for 4 off their 50 overs, smashing the previous record of 398-5 by Sri Lanka against Kenya in 1996 during the World Cup.

In reply, South Africa scored 438-9, winning by one wicket with one ball to spare and hence setting up the new record at that time as Herschelle Gibbs scored his career-best innings of 167 runs.

South Africans once again backed themselves to put up yet another sparkling performance against Zimbabwe in Potchefstroom in 2006, when they scored 418 for 5 in 50 overs.

On Dec. 15, 2009, Indian batsmen brutally hit Sri Lankan bowlers all across the Rajkot Stadium to help their side pile up huge 414 for 7 in 50 overs (the fifth highest ODI score),while in reply Sri Lanka fell just 3 runs short of the total, making it the 6th highest total in the history of One Day International Cricket.