Most Consecutive Fifties in ODI

In cricket, consistency and making use of good form is the need of the hour, be it with the bat or ball.

For a batter, consistency is keeping on churning out big runs and, in ODI format terms, it means making scores of 50 or more regularly.

This not only boosts individual batting credentials but also keeps their team in good stead in terms of results.

There are batters who kept on scoring runs for fun and made optimum use of the stellar run they had by notching milestones match after match.

In this piece, we will talk about those players who redefined the word consistency, albeit for a limited period of time in ODI cricket. So here are the batters with the most consecutive fifty-plus scores in ODI cricket.

Most Consecutive Fifties in ODIs

Player	No. of 50s	Runs	Against	Venue	Date
Javed Miandad (PAK)	9	78	India	Nagpur	24 Mar 1987
		78*	India	Jamshedpur	26 Mar 1987
		74*	Australia	Sharjah	3 Apr 1987
		60	England	Sharjah	7 Apr 1987
		52*	India	Sharjah	10 Apr 1987
		113	England	The Oval	21 May 1987
		71*	England	Nottingham	23 May 1987
		68	England	Birmingham	25 May 1987
		103	Sri Lanka	Hyderabad (Sind)	8 Oct 1987
Imam-ul-Haq (PAK)	7	56	England	Birmingham	13 Jul 2021
		103	Australia	Lahore	29 Mar 2022
		106	Australia	Lahore	31 Mar 2022
		89*	Australia	Lahore	2 Apr 2022
		65	West Indies	Multan	8 Jun 2022
		72	West Indies	Multan	10 Jun 2022
		62	West Indies	Multan	12 Jun 2022
Gordon Greenidge (WI)	6	85*	England	Brisbane	23 Dec 1979
		50	England	Adelaide	16 Jan 1980
		80	England	Melbourne	20 Jan 1980
		98*	England	Sydney	22 Jan 1980
		103	New Zealand	Christchurch	6 Feb 1980
		78	England	Leeds	28 May 1980
Andrew Jones (NZ)	6	57	India	Vadodara	17 Dec 1988
		55*	Pakistan	Dunedin	6 Feb 1989
		62*	Pakistan	Christchurch	4 Mar 1989
		67	Pakistan	Wellington	8 Mar 1989
		82	Pakistan	Auckland	11 Mar 1989
		63*	Pakistan	Hamilton	14 Mar 1989
Mark Waugh (AUS)	6	63	Sri Lanka	Sydney	13 Jan 1999
		83*	England	Melbourne	15 Jan 1999
		85	England	Sydney	17 Jan 1999
		65	Sri Lanka	Hobart	21 Jan 1999
		57	Sri Lanka	Adelaide	24 Jan 1999
		65	England	Adelaide	26 Jan 1999
Mohammad Yousuf (AUS)	6	106	Bangladesh	Faisalabad	12 Sep 2003
		65	Bangladesh	Lahore	15 Sep 2003
		94*	Bangladesh	Rawalpindi	18 Sep 2003
		52	Bangladesh	Karachi	21 Sep 2003
		68	South Africa	Lahore	3 Oct 2003
		65	South Africa	Lahore	5 Oct 2003
Kane Williamson (NZ)	6	93	England	The Oval	12 Jun 2015
		118	England	Southampton	14 Jun 2015
		90	England	Nottingham	17 Jun 2015
		50	England	Chester-le-Street	20 Jun 2015
		97	Zimbabwe	Harare	2 Aug 2015
		90	Zimbabwe	Harare	7 Aug 2015
Ross Taylor (NZ)	6	181*	England	Dunedin	7 Mar 2018
		80	Pakistan	Abu Dhabi	7 Nov 2018
		86*	Pakistan	Abu Dhabi	9 Nov 2018
		54	Sri Lanka	Mount Maunganui	3 Jan 2019
		90	Sri Lanka	Mount Maunganui	5 Jan 2019
		137	Sri Lanka	Nelson	8 Jan 2019
Chris Gayle (WI)	6	73	Bangladesh	Basseterre	28 Jul 2018
		135	England	Bridgetown	20 Feb 2019
		50	England	Bridgetown	22 Feb 2019
		162	England	St George’s	27 Feb 2019
		77	England	Gros Islet	2 Mar 2019
		50	Pakistan	Nottingham	31 May 2019
Paul Stirling (IRE)	6	77	West Indies	Dublin (Malahide)	11 May 2019
		130	Bangladesh	Dublin	15 May 2019
		71	Afghanistan	Belfast	19 May 2019
		50	Afghanistan	Belfast	21 May 2019
		57	Zimbabwe	Bready	1 Jul 2019
		52	Zimbabwe	Belfast	4 Jul 2019
Shai Hope (WI)	6	115	Sri Lanka	Colombo (SSC)	22 Feb 2020
		51	Sri Lanka	Hambantota	26 Feb 2020
		72	Sri Lanka	Pallekele	1 Mar 2020
		110	Sri Lanka	North Sound	10 Mar 2021
		84	Sri Lanka	North Sound	12 Mar 2021
		64	Sri Lanka	North Sound	14 Mar 2021
Babar Azam (PAK)	6	158	England	Birmingham	13 Jul 2021
		57	Australia	Lahore	29 Mar 2022
		114	Australia	Lahore	31 Mar 2022
		105*	Australia	Lahore	2 Apr 2022
		103	West Indies	Multan	8 Jun 2022
		77	West Indies	Multan	10 Jun 2022
Joe Root (ENG)	6	61	Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)	22 Jan 2026
		75	Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)	24 Jan 2026
		111*	Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)	27 Jan 2026
		76*	India	Birmingham	14 Jul 2026
		99*	India	Cardiff	16 Jul 2026
		74*	India	Lord’s	19 Jul 2026

Key Insights on Record-Breaking Consecutive Fifties in ODI Cricket

Elite Fifty-plus Score Streaks in ODIs

Javed Miandad holds the record for scoring the most consecutive fifty-plus scores in ODI cricket. In 1987, the former Pakistani skipper smashed nine scores of 50 or more on the bounce, including two centuries (113 vs England and 103 vs Sri Lanka).

Imam-ul-Haq, another Pakistani batter, came close to bettering this record by scoring seven successive half-centuries in 2021/22. Like Miandad, Imam also scored two centuries during this sensational streak.

Consecutive Milestone Records and Unbeaten Fifty-plus Knocks

There are 11 batters who made six consecutive fifty-plus scores in ODI cricket, with Joe Root being the most recent entrant.

Four out of six times Root remained unbeaten. This is the most unbeaten consecutive fifty-plus scores by a batter in ODIs.

Individual Consistency and Century Streaks in ODIs

Nine times Virat Kohli has scored four or more fifty-plus scores in successive ODIs, the most by any batter in the format. Five times he scored five successive fifties, again the most instances by a batter in ODIs.

Kumar Sangakkara has scored the most consecutive centuries in ODIs, with four back-to-back hundreds in the 2015 World Cup. He had scores of 105* (vs Bangladesh), 117* (vs England), 104 (vs Australia) and 124 (vs Scotland). (Read about Sangakkara’s extraordinary feat here.)

Sangakkara’s four hundreds are the second-most by a batter in a single ODI World Cup edition.

Babar Azam is the only batter to score three consecutive hundreds twice in ODIs. His first instance came in 2016 (120, 123 and 117 vs West Indies), followed by the second in 2022 (114 and 105* vs Australia and 103 vs West Indies).

Azam’s three centuries against the West Indies in 2016 are the joint most by a batter in a bilateral ODI series.