Our One Day International (ODI) ratings take into account all matches from the first ODI match on January 5, 1971 till the below mentioned last update date. Brief explanation of the ratings is given before each section (Detailed Explanation). Here are the Top 7 Kiwi opening batsmen in ODI Cricket of all time.

*Note: All ODI Ratings are updated till 2025-09-15

CONTENTS

3. PRIMARY CRITERIA

3.1. PROLIFIC

3.2. CONSISTENT

3.2.1. Against All Teams

3.2.2. Against Top Teams

3.3. ATTACKING

3.3.1. Against All Teams

3.3.2. Against Top Teams

3.4. BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL (NWT)

3.5. QUICK INNINGS POTENTIAL (NWT)

3.6. PRIMARY RATING

4. CONDITIONS CRITERIA

4.1. HOME/AWAY

4.1.1. At Home

4.1.2. Away From Home

4.2. FAMILIAR/UNFAMILIAR CONDITIONS

4.2.1. Familiar Conditions Rating

4.2.1.1. Non Asians Outside Asia

4.2.2. Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

4.2.2.1. Non Asians In Asia

4.3. CONDITIONS RATING

5. SECONDARY CRITERIA

5.1. WORLD CUP

5.2. IMPACT INNINGS

5.3. TOP FORM

5.4. SECONDARY RATING

6. OVERALL RATING

7. NON WEAK TEAMS

8. TOP TEAMS

Nations Filter

This rating filters the OVERALL Rating to show players only from New Zealand.

The Rating of the players from New Zealand remains the same as in the original OVERALL Rating.
Thus the Trend Setter can be from any nation and is not necessarily from New Zealand.

Position Filter

This rating filters the OVERALL Rating to include performances of opening batsmen. Innings played only at the specified position are counted in this rating.

THE CRITERIA

CRITERIA	CONSTITUENTS
Primary	Runs, Average, Strike Rate, Top Inns (Runs and SR)
Conditions	Home, Away, In Asia, Outside Asia
Secondary	World Cup, Top Form, Impact Inns

The Trend Setter (TS)

TS is the player which does the best in a criteria. The rating of all other players are calculated taking the TS as the benchmark. Know All About TS. Here is an example:-

TS Runs: 2,000; Player X Runs: 1,000; Section Points: 250.00
TS Points: 250.00(Max); Player X Points: Runs/TS Runs X 250 = 1,000/2,000 X 250 = 125.00
Ratings of all sections are calculated similarly with Runs being replaced by the Criteria Stat.

TT and NWT

Some sections consider performances only against the top teams (TT) and non weak teams (NWT). Here is some information:-

Win/Loss Ratio is used to determine TT and NWT.
They are calculated by decades.
A batsman's performace is counted in TT or NWT if it comes against that team in the specific decade.
Knock Out and Super Six matches of ODI World Cup are also counted.
TT and NWT may be found in the last section.

QUALIFICATION

Min Innings (TT)	30
Min Overall Runs	1000

PRIMARY CRITERIA

The Primary Rating is divided into 5 main sections:-

CRITERIA	STAT	POINTS
Prolific	Runs Scored	200.00
Consistent	Average	300.00
Attacking	Strike Rate	300.00
Big Innings Potential	Top Inns (Runs)	100.00
Quick Innings Potential	Top Inns (SR)	100.00

PROLIFIC

The Eras

The time period of ODI cricket is divided into eras for this section. This is because less cricket was played earlier. To make it fair for earlier players they are compared with players of the same period with a slight reduction in points. Know More About Eras.

Era 1	MP before 1996
Era 2	MP between 1995 And 2011
Era 3	MP greater than 2010

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored

RANK	ERA 1	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	DL Haynes	WI	1978	1994	1986	237	8648	160.00
1	JG Wright	NZ	1978	1992	1985	135	3601	66.62

RANK	ERA 2	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	SR Tendulkar	IND	1994	2012	2003	340	15310	200.00
1	NJ Astle	NZ	1995	2007	2001	186	6176	80.68
2	BB McCullum	NZ	2002	2016	2009	107	3363	43.93
3	SP Fleming	NZ	1994	2007	2000.5	103	3280	42.85
4	BA Young	NZ	1993	1999	1996	63	1463	19.11
5	L Vincent	NZ	2002	2007	2004.5	40	1182	15.44

RANK	ERA 3	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	RG Sharma	IND	2011	2025	2018	184	9138	160.00
1	MJ Guptill	NZ	2009	2022	2015.5	174	6721	117.68

CONSISTENT

R Ave

Relative Average (R Ave) is a more accurate type of average. Know How It Is Calculated. Briefly, it takes into account:-

Strength of Opposition.
Positions at which a batsman has played.
Venues at which he has played.
Time Period in which he has been active

Criteria: Points For Relative Average

Min Qualification For TS
Min Runs	2500
Min Runs (TT)	2000

Against All Teams

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	NO	RUNS	50s	AVE	R AVE	RAT
TS	S Gill	50	8	2509	14	59.74	57.35	150.00
1	MJ Guptill	174	18	6721	34	43.08	41.27	107.96
2	NJ Astle	186	9	6176	37	34.89	35.94	94.00
3	SP Fleming	103	6	3280	19	33.81	35.37	92.52
4	BB McCullum	107	5	3363	19	32.97	32.92	86.10
5	L Vincent	40	1	1182	5	30.31	32.06	83.86
6	JG Wright	135	1	3601	23	26.87	28.97	75.78
7	BA Young	63	3	1463	9	24.38	25.60	66.95

Against Top Teams

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	NO	RUNS	50s	AVE	R AVE	RAT
TS	RG Sharma	134	10	6848	30	55.23	53.53	150.00
1	MJ Guptill	130	12	4758	24	40.32	39.57	110.90
2	SP Fleming	78	5	2332	12	31.95	34.52	96.72
3	NJ Astle	145	4	4514	26	32.01	33.79	94.68
4	BB McCullum	82	2	2520	16	31.50	31.92	89.44
5	JG Wright	115	1	3097	21	27.17	29.99	84.04
6	L Vincent	32	1	776	5	25.03	27.11	75.95
7	BA Young	63	3	1463	9	24.38	25.60	71.73

ATTACKING

R SR

Relative Strike Rate (R SR) is calculated using the same method as R Ave with average being replaced with SR.

Criteria: Points For R SR

Min Qualification For TS
Min Runs	2500
Min Runs (TT)	2000
Min Average	25

Against All Teams

RANK	BATSMAN	RUNS	BF	SR	R SR	RAT
TS	V Sehwag	7518	7169	104.87	102.03	150.00
1	BB McCullum	3363	3273	102.75	95.86	140.93
2	L Vincent	1182	1441	82.03	81.48	119.79
3	MJ Guptill	6721	7628	88.11	79.01	116.15
4	NJ Astle	6176	8490	72.74	74.44	109.44
5	SP Fleming	3280	4458	73.58	73.90	108.65
6	JG Wright	3601	6353	56.68	67.94	99.89
7	BA Young	1463	2426	60.31	66.19	97.31

Against Top Teams

RANK	BATSMAN	RUNS	BF	SR	R SR	RAT
TS	V Sehwag	5601	5455	102.68	100.52	150.00
1	BB McCullum	2520	2496	100.96	94.43	140.91
2	MJ Guptill	4758	5364	88.70	79.99	119.36
3	L Vincent	776	1042	74.47	74.49	111.16
4	NJ Astle	4514	6281	71.87	74.06	110.52
5	SP Fleming	2332	3352	69.57	70.48	105.18
6	JG Wright	3097	5499	56.32	67.91	101.34
7	BA Young	1463	2426	60.31	66.19	98.77

BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL (NWT)

Ave HS

In this criteria, we have taken the top 7 scores of the batsman against Non Weak Teams of all time. Average High Score (Ave HS) is simply the total runs in the 7 innings divided by 7.

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored In The Top 7 Inns

RANK	ERA 1	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	AVE HS	RAT
TS	DL Haynes	152*	148	145*	142*	138*	133*	123*	140.14	100.00
1	JG Wright	101	84	81	78	70	69	68	78.71	56.17

RANK	ERA 2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	AVE HS	RAT
TS	SR Tendulkar	200*	186*	175	163*	143	141*	141	164.14	100.00
1	NJ Astle	122*	120	120	119	117	117	115*	118.57	72.24
2	SP Fleming	134*	115*	108	106	102*	99	89	107.57	65.54
3	BB McCullum	131	117	96	81	80*	80*	77	94.57	57.62
4	L Vincent	102	90	76	73*	71	66	46	74.86	45.60
5	BA Young	74	65	63	59	58	57	55	61.57	37.51

RANK	ERA 3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	AVE HS	RAT
TS	RG Sharma	264	209	208*	171*	162	159	152*	189.29	100.00
1	MJ Guptill	237*	189*	180*	138	122*	118	117*	157.29	83.09

QUICK INNINGS POTENTIAL (NWT)

QI SR

In this criteria, we have taken the top 5 innings of the batsman with highest strike rate against Non Weak Teams. Quick Innings Strike Rate (QI SR) is the Relative SR of the batsmen in the 5 innings.

Criteria: Points For R SR In The Top 5 Inns by SR

RANK	BATSMAN	1	2	3	4	5	QI SR	RAT
TS	BB McCullum	77/25	80/28	51/22	59/26	55/25	238.41	100.00
1	BB McCullum	77/25	80/28	51/22	59/26	55/25	238.41	100.00
2	MJ Guptill	93/30	38/19	27/14	64/34	25/14	199.53	83.69
3	JG Wright	55/47	47/43	27/28	30/33	48/53	121.63	51.02
4	BA Young	52/40	55/52	25/24	36/35	59/65	115.35	48.38
5	L Vincent	71/49	39/33	46/44	43/42	31/32	114.23	47.91
6	NJ Astle	32/25	32/30	34/32	119/116	45/45	108.10	45.34
7	SP Fleming	67/59	102/92	134/132	67/66	25/25	106.08	44.50

PRIMARY RATING

The total of the above five criteria comes out to be 1,000.00 points. The Primary Rating is the addition of the points a batsman scored in the five criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 40 percent.

RANK	BATSMAN	PRO	CON	ATT	BIP	QIP	TOT	PRI PTS
1	MJ Guptill	117.68	218.85	235.52	83.09	83.69	738.84	295.53
2	BB McCullum	43.93	175.54	281.84	57.62	100.00	658.92	263.57
3	NJ Astle	80.68	188.68	219.96	72.24	45.34	606.90	242.76
4	SP Fleming	42.85	189.24	213.83	65.54	44.50	555.95	222.38
5	JG Wright	66.62	159.82	201.22	56.17	51.02	534.86	213.94
6	L Vincent	15.44	159.81	230.95	45.60	47.91	499.72	199.89
7	BA Young	19.11	138.68	196.08	37.51	48.38	439.77	175.91

CONDITIONS CRITERIA

The Conditions Rating is calculated by applying the five criteria of Primary Rating to various conditions. If Innings are less than the Qualification than the Player gets 50% of the Points. Click on the Rating Titles to see how they were calculated.

The four conditions criteria and thier weightage is as follows:-

CRITERIA	POINTS
Home	20.00
Away	80.00
Familiar Conditions	20.00
Unfamiliar Conditions	80.00

HOME/AWAY

HM/AW RATING

Points to note:-

U.A.E. and India are considered as Home for Afghanistan.
U.A.E. is also considered as a second home for Pakistan.
All Home and Away stats of Pakistani and Afghani batsmen are calculated accordingly.

At Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 10

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	MJ Guptill	88	3922	50.28	92.96	713.31	14.27
2	BB McCullum	50	1709	35.60	125.11	663.41	13.27
3	NJ Astle	71	2990	46.00	75.37	597.87	11.96
4	L Vincent	14	431	33.15	94.10	491.11	9.82
5	SP Fleming	36	1085	33.91	71.48	467.69	9.35
6	JG Wright	35	971	27.74	58.78	455.24	9.10
7	BA Young	28	539	19.96	60.02	348.02	6.96

Away From Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 20

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	MJ Guptill	86	2799	35.88	82.11	637.17	50.97
2	SP Fleming	67	2195	33.77	74.66	579.25	46.34
3	NJ Astle	115	3186	28.45	70.44	576.81	46.14
4	JG Wright	100	2630	26.57	55.95	560.26	44.82
5	BB McCullum	57	1654	30.63	86.73	553.42	44.27
6	BA Young	35	924	28.00	60.47	477.75	38.22
7	L Vincent	26	751	28.88	76.40	461.47	36.92

FAMILIAR/UNFAMILIAR CONDITIONS

FC/UC RATING

Points to note:-

Unfamiliar Conditions (UC) is Outside Asia for Asians and In Asia for Non Asians.
Familiar Conditions (FC) are the opposite.

Familiar Conditions Rating

Non Asians Outside Asia

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 20

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	MJ Guptill	147	6064	46.29	89.76	847.84	16.96
2	BB McCullum	84	2688	33.19	106.41	715.52	14.31
3	NJ Astle	135	4456	35.37	72.51	655.35	13.11
4	SP Fleming	88	2837	34.60	76.02	621.20	12.42
5	L Vincent	35	1126	33.12	85.56	565.30	11.31
6	JG Wright	106	2842	27.07	54.79	552.12	11.04
7	BA Young	44	972	23.14	57.82	442.61	8.85

Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

Non Asians In Asia

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 10

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	NJ Astle	51	1720	33.73	73.35	731.94	58.56
2	JG Wright	29	759	26.17	65.09	538.53	43.08
3	BB McCullum	23	675	32.14	90.36	516.04	41.28
4	L Vincent	5	56	11.20	44.80	500.00	40.00
5	BA Young	19	491	27.28	65.91	459.10	36.73
6	MJ Guptill	27	657	26.28	75.34	452.17	36.17
7	SP Fleming	15	443	29.53	61.02	445.11	35.61

CONDITIONS RATING

The Conditions Rating is the addition of the points a batsman scored in the four criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 20%.

RANK	BATSMAN	AWAY	HOME	UC	FC	CON PTS
1	NJ Astle	46.14	11.96	58.56	13.11	129.76
2	MJ Guptill	50.97	14.27	36.17	16.96	118.37
3	BB McCullum	44.27	13.27	41.28	14.31	113.14
4	JG Wright	44.82	9.10	43.08	11.04	108.05
5	SP Fleming	46.34	9.35	35.61	12.42	103.73
6	L Vincent	36.92	9.82	40.00	11.31	98.05
7	BA Young	38.22	6.96	36.73	8.85	90.76

SECONDARY CRITERIA

The Secondary Rating consists of three parts. If Innings are less than the Qualification than the Player gets 50% of the Points. Click on the Rating Titles to see how they were calculated.

The three secondary criteria and thier weightage is as follows:-

CRITERIA	POINTS
World Cup	150.00
Impact Innings	150.00
Top Form	100.00

WORLD CUP

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 5

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	MJ Guptill	27	995	43.26	88.37	732.44	109.87
2	BB McCullum	17	584	38.93	129.49	639.96	95.99
3	SP Fleming	18	674	42.13	86.08	631.88	94.78
4	JG Wright	16	473	29.56	57.19	573.44	86.02
5	BA Young	0	0	NA	NA	500.00	75.00
5	L Vincent	3	101	33.67	79.53	500.00	75.00
7	NJ Astle	16	190	11.88	61.09	292.06	43.81

Impact Innings (II)

Impact Innings are those innings which have an impact in terms of Runs or Strike Rate. Know All About II. Points to note about II:-

Both Inns are clubbed together.
A Batsman should score at least 25 runs to qualify.
An Inn is included in II if it is 30.00% of the total runs of the higher total or
The runs are 10.00% of the total runs and
The SR is high or in a successful chase while being Not Out.

IMPACT INNINGS

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 30

RANK	BATSMAN	DIS	II	II/Dis %	RAT	WTG
1	MJ Guptill	156	43	27.56	571.31	85.70
2	BB McCullum	102	28	27.45	517.83	77.67
3	BA Young	60	5	8.33	500.00	75.00
3	L Vincent	39	7	17.95	500.00	75.00
5	NJ Astle	177	38	21.47	360.43	54.06
6	SP Fleming	97	18	18.56	335.68	50.35
7	JG Wright	134	16	11.94	280.88	42.13

TOP FORM RATING

Points to note:-

Top Form is calculated by taking the best 50 consecutive innings of a batsman.
Only Inns against Non Weak Teams are considered in the rating.
Non Weak Teams may be found in the last section.

TOP FORM

Min Innings Vs Non Weak Teams: 20

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	MJ Guptill	50	2479	56.34	99.16	784.60	78.46
2	BB McCullum	50	1443	28.86	121.46	673.49	67.35
3	NJ Astle	50	1953	41.55	74.68	647.23	64.72
4	SP Fleming	50	1844	40.09	71.53	615.66	61.57
5	JG Wright	50	1568	31.36	61.66	551.12	55.11
6	L Vincent	36	909	25.97	75.94	470.38	47.04
7	BA Young	50	1203	25.60	63.45	458.69	45.87

SECONDARY RATING

The Secondary Rating is the addition of the points a batsman scored in the three criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 40%.

RANK	BATSMAN	WC	TF	II	SEC RAT
1	MJ Guptill	109.87	78.46	85.70	274.02
2	BB McCullum	95.99	67.35	77.67	241.02
3	SP Fleming	94.78	61.57	50.35	206.70
4	L Vincent	75.00	47.04	75.00	197.04
5	BA Young	75.00	45.87	75.00	195.87
6	JG Wright	86.02	55.11	42.13	183.26
7	NJ Astle	43.81	64.72	54.06	162.60

OVERALL RATING

OVERALL Rating is the addition of the points of all the above criteria. The rating is out of 1,000 Pts.

RANK	OV RANK	BATSMAN	NAT	PRI PTS	CON PTS	SEC PTS	FIN RAT
1	18	MJ Guptill	NZ	295.53	118.37	274.02	687.93
2	34	BB McCullum	NZ	263.57	113.14	241.02	617.72
3	57	NJ Astle	NZ	242.76	129.76	162.60	535.12
4	61	SP Fleming	NZ	222.38	103.73	206.70	532.81
5	76	JG Wright	NZ	213.94	108.05	183.26	505.25
6	81	L Vincent	NZ	199.89	98.05	197.04	494.97
7	93	BA Young	NZ	175.91	90.76	195.87	462.54

NON WEAK TEAMS

DECADE OF MAT	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1970s	WI	ENG	AUS	NZ	PAK	SL	IND
1980s	WI	ENG	AUS	PAK	IND	NZ	SL	ZIM
1990s	SA	AUS	PAK	WI	IND	SL	ENG	NZ	ZIM
2000s	AUS	SA	SL	PAK	IND	NZ	ENG	WI	BAN
2010s	IND	SA	AUS	ENG	NZ	PAK	SL	BAN	WI
2020s	IND	NZ	SL	AUS	PAK	SA	BAN	ENG	WI	AFG