Tag Oneday-Records

When major teams play minnows, win margins are expected to be big, if not huge.

But, lets start this record article with an India vs Srilanka match, played at Sharjah back on 29 October 2000. Both big teams of cricket arena (it was a final match of Coca Cola cup), Lankans defeated Indians by 245 runs. Sanath Jayasuriya scored 189 (still the 5th biggest ODI score), propelling islanders to 299/5 after electing to bat, to which Indians replied extremely poorly = 54 allout which is still the 7th lowest ODI total.

Easily the biggest win in one day cricket when we consider only battles between top quality cricket teams..

Statistically, New Zealand's 290 run victory is biggest in one day international cricket, achieved over Ireland. Played at a rare ground called Aberdeen in Britain, minnows Ireland made a big mistake of chosing to bowl first, and suffered a 402 run total overhead. James Marshall and Brendon McCullum put on 274 runs for the first wicket (only 12 runs less than record of biggest ODI opening stands), and then Ross Taylor finished with 24 ball 54.

Baby Irish team could manage only 112 that day, registering the biggest loss in ODI cricket, in terms of runs mind you.

Cricket matches are also won by wickets in hand, by the teams who bat second and chase a total. There as been nearly 50 games where teams won by all 10 wickets in hand, so no point publishing a table for that. here's your other biggest run margins in onedayers.

Biggest win margins (by runs) in all one day matches.
Winner	Loser	Margin	Target	Venue	Date
New Zealand	Ireland	290 runs	403	Aberdeen	1 Jul 2008
South Africa	Sri Lanka	258 runs	302	Paarl	11 Jan 2012
India	Bermuda	257 runs	414	Trinidad	19 Mar 2007
Australia	Naminia	256 runs	302	P'stroom	27 Feb 2003
India	Hong Kong	256 runs	375	Karachi	25 Jul 2008
Sri Lanka	India	245 runs	300	Sharjah	29 Oct 2000
Sri Lanka	Bermuda	243 runs	322	Trinidad	15 Mar 2007
Sri Lanka	Pakistan	234 runs	310	Lahore	24 Jan 2009
Pakistan	Bangladesh	233 runs	321	Dhaka	2 Jun 2000
Australia	Sri Lanka	232 runs	324	Adelaide	28 Jan 1985
Australia	Holland	229 runs	359	St Kitts	18 Mar 2007
Australia	Pakistan	224 runs	333	Nairobi	30 Aug 2002
South Africa	Holland	221 runs	354	St Kitts	16 Mar 2007
Pakistan	Sri Lanka	217 runs	296	Sharjah	17 Apr 2002
Australia	New Zealand	215 runs	349	Grenada	20 Apr 2007
South Africa	Zimbabwe	212 runs	332	Centurion	10 Nov 2009
New Zealand	USA	210 runs	348	The Oval	10 Sep 2004
South Africa	West Indies	209 runs	264	Cape Town	25 Jan 2004
South Africa	Kenya	208 runs	355	Cape Town	22 Oct 2001
Australia	India	208 runs	360	Sydney	8 Feb 2004
West Indies	Canada	208 runs	317	Jamaica	13 Apr 2010
New Zealand	Australia	206 runs	277	Adelaide	27 Jan 1986
Sri Lanka	Holland	206 runs	293	Colombo	16 Sep 2002
Australia	Scotland	203 runs	335	St Kitts	14 Mar 2007
England	Zimbabwe	202 runs	306	Lord's	7 Jun 1975
South Africa	Kenya	202 runs	306	Nairobi	3 Oct 1996
Zimbabwe	Kenya	202 runs	326	Dhaka	27 Mar 1999
India	Bangladesh	200 runs	277	Dhaka	11 Apr 2003
New Zealand	India	200 runs	288	Dambulla	10 Aug 2010