10 highest scores for Australia in ODIs – David Warner owns 4 of them, but who has the highest?

Jonhenry Wilson 06 Mar 2025

Glenn Maxwell has hit a double-century in ODI cricket.

Several Australians have hit record-high individual totals in the history of ODI cricket.

Only one Australian has reached a double-ton in ODI cricket, though.

Read on to find out more about Australia’s highest individual scores in ODIs.

10. David Warner – 166 vs Bangladesh

Warner holds the record for Australia’s 10th highest individual score in ODI cricket. This was during the 2019 Cricket World Cup, when Warner took full advantage at Trent Bridge in Nottingham.

9. Adam Gilchrist – 172 vs Zimbabwe

Gilchrist holds the record for Australia’s ninth highest individual score in ODI cricket. Gilchrist faced just 126 deliveries, but struck only three sixes during an innings of calculated hitting personified in Hobart in 2004.

8. David Warner – 173 vs South Africa

Warner also holds the record for Australia’s eighth highest individual score in ODI cricket. Warner did not hit a single six during this knock at Newlands in Cape Town in 2016. His ton couldn’t prevent the Aussies from slipping to a five-nil series whitewash against South Africa.

7. Mark Waugh – 173 vs West Indies

Waugh holds the record for Australia’s seventh highest individual score in ODI cricket. He was outstanding against a West Indies seam attack spearheaded by Nixon McLean and Cameron Cuffy in Melbourne in 2001.

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6. Mitchell Marsh – 177 not out vs Bangladesh

Marsh holds the record for Australia’s sixth highest individual score in ODI cricket. The year was 2023 and the venue Pune, as Marsh clouted 17 fours and nine sixes after being promoted to third position in the batting order.

5. David Warner – 178 vs Afghanistan

Warner also holds the record for Australia’s fifth highest individual score in ODI cricket. Afghanistan were relatively new to ODI cricket and no match for Warner at the WACA during the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

4. David Warner – 179 vs Pakistan

Warner holds the record for Australia’s fourth highest individual score in ODI cricket, too. This time it was in Adelaide in 2017, when Warner went really big again. Fellow opener Travis Head also scored a ton in this match against Pakistan.

3. Matthew Hayden – 181 not out vs New Zealand

Hayden holds the record for Australia’s third highest individual score in ODI cricket. Hayden also has the record for the highest ODI score for an Australian left-hander. He did it in Hamilton in 2007.

2. Shane Watson – 185 not out vs Bangladesh

Watson holds the record for Australia’s second highest individual score in ODI cricket. Watson amassed 15 sixes en route to a near double-ton in Mirpur in 2011.

1. Glenn Maxwell – 201 not out vs Afghanistan

Maxwell holds the record for Australia’s highest individual score in ODI cricket. Mawell was riddled with cramp at the time, but rocketed his way to Australia’s only double-ton in ODI cricket regardless. He did it in just 128 deliveries at the 2023 Cricket World Cup.