List of batsman with a higher ODI top score than Test top score

[msb314]

Here it goes!

1) Saeed Anwar
2) Imran Nazir
3) Sharjeel Khan*
4) Salman Butt
5) Rohit Sharma
6) Martin Guptill
7) Corey Anderson
8) Shane Watson
9) Michael Bevan
10) George Bailey
11) James Faulkner*
12) Upul Tharanga
13) Kusal Perera
14) Niroshan Dickwella
15) Sadeera Samarawickrama
16) Soumya Sarkar
17) Mahmudullah
18) Sabbir Rehman
19) Alex Hales
20) Jos Butler
21) Faf Du Plessis
22) Quinton De Kock
23) Chris Morris
24) Wayne Parnell
25) Babar Azam
26) Haris Sohail
27) Xavier Marshall
28) Charles Coventry

Asterisk(*) indicates that player has only played 1 Test so far.

Feel free to add more.

 

[msb314]

The ones that surprise me are: Saeed Anwar, Salman Butt, Shane Watson, Upul Tharanga and Faf Du Plessis as they all had a relatively substantial Test career but could not top their ODI scores!

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

Only Anwar and Faf surprises me. Anwar came really close with 188 inning in Kolkata, Faf has lot of time so he can do it in future.
Well Sharma name should not be here as his highest Odi score is 264, which is nearly impossible to cross

 

[hadi123]

Quite a few of them aren't surprising as they are more aggressive so don't have the temperament for Tests to get high scores. Also, some have played very few tests.

The one that surprised me the most is Faf du Plessis. He has a solid temperament as that famous debut innings in Adelaide showed us. Hasn't even got a 150 yet in the longest format, maybe that will change in the next year.

 

[TeymurBlake]

Interesting to see quite a lot players there that probably shouldn't be. Saeed Anwar, Faf Du Plessis, Upul Tharanga, Martin Guptill, Shane Watson, Salman Butt and Quinton De Kock are the surprising ones. I hope to see Faf maybe changing this against Zimbabwe, Upul seems to be getting another chance in the Sri Lankan team so maybe you never know, Salman Butt and Saeed Anwar must have better there ODI scores since they played quite alot of test cricket. Shane Watson and Martin Guptill underachieved in test cricket for me but maybe just weren't made for test cricket. Quinton however has plenty of time to better his score.

 

[msb314]

Interesting to see quite a lot players there that probably shouldn't be. Saeed Anwar, Faf Du Plessis, Upul Tharanga, Martin Guptill, Shane Watson, Salman Butt and Quinton De Kock are the surprising ones. I hope to see Faf maybe changing this against Zimbabwe, Upul seems to be getting another chance in the Sri Lankan team so maybe you never know, Salman Butt and Saeed Anwar must have better there ODI scores since they played quite alot of test cricket. Shane Watson and Martin Guptill underachieved in test cricket for me but maybe just weren't made for test cricket. Quinton however has plenty of time to better his score.

Also expect Babar Azam and Haris Sohail to come off this list soon

 

[TeymurBlake]

Also expect Babar Azam and Haris Sohail to come off this list soon

Absolutely..... hopefully....... Insh'Allah

 

[BunnyRabbit]

James Marshall
Rob Nicol
Temba Bavuma
Tim Paine
Mohammad Amir

 

[PakSarZameen]

A lot of those are current players. Should highlight retired cricketers.

 

[rudra]

Add kapil paji and ajay jadeja

 

[Justcrazy]

A lot of those are current players. Should highlight retired cricketers.

That makes sense.

 

[pakistani pride]

The ones that surprise me are: Saeed Anwar, Salman Butt, Shane Watson, Upul Tharanga and Faf Du Plessis as they all had a relatively substantial Test career but could not top their ODI scores!

Do you know Salman Butt test record?