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Largest Victory Margins in ODI By Balls Remaining

Check out here the list of Largest Victory Margins in ODI By Balls Remaining. Currently the record is held by England when the team won the match with 277 balls remaining against Canada in 1977.

Sandipan Ghosh
Last updated: 18.09.2023
Largest Victory Margins in ODI By Balls Remaining

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One Day International (ODI) is one of the popular formats in international cricket, which is the oldest limited-overs cricket format. Here, we are talking about a special team ODI record – the largest victory margins (by balls remaining).

ODI cricket is now more than 50 years old. In this half-century of limited-overs international cricket format history, 28 teams have already experienced this game (including ICC World XI, Asia XI and Africa XI), including outside the full members.

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In the success of the game, ODI has played a huge role, especially the pinnacle tournament – ICC Cricket World Cup. This format has popularised many modern aspects like limited-overs team batting, white balls, coloured jerseys, numbered and named jerseys, fielding restrictions for the bowling side etc. This format has also experienced many significant changes with time progress.

In this 50-year-old format, we have already experienced many memorable matches. However, here we are talking about some particular dominating performances with the largest victory margins in ODI (by balls remaining).  


List of largest victory margins in ODI (by balls remaining): Top 10


Winner

Target

Winning Margin

(By wickets)

Balls Remaining

Opposition

Venue

Date

England

46

8 wickets

277

Canada

Manchester

13 June 1979

Sri Lanka

39

9 wickets

274

Zimbabwe

Colombo (SSC)

8 December 2001

Sri Lanka

37

9 wickets

272

Canada

Paarl

19 February 2003

Nepal

36

8 wickets

268

U.S.A.

Kirtipur

12 February 2020

New Zealand

94

10 wickets

264

Bangladesh

Queenstown

31 December 2007

India

51

10 wickets

263

Sri Lanka

Colombo (RPS)

17 September 2023

Nepal

96

9 wickets

254

P.N.G.

Kirtipur

13 March 2023

Australia

66

9 wickets

253

U.S.A.

Southampton

13 September 2004

New Zealand

70

10 wickets

252

Kenya

Chennai

20 February 2011

New Zealand

118

10 wickets

250

Sri Lanka

Christchurch

28 December 2015

(Updated till 17 September 2023)

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