B Kumar of India scored 53 not out against Sri Lanka at Pallekele on 24 Aug 2017 to provide the 40^th occasion of a batsman scoring a half century while batting at number nine in the history of one day internationals. All such occasions are tabulated below.

 

No	Player	Runs	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	S Madan Lal	53*	Ind	Eng	The Oval	04 Jun 1982
2	RG de Alwis	59*	Srl	Pak	Swansea	09 Jun 1983
3	MA Holding	64	Win	Aus	Perth	05 Feb 1984
4	Tahir Naqqash	61	Pak	NZl	Auckland	16 Feb 1985
5	IP Butchart	54	Zim	NZl	Hyd-LBS	10 Oct 1987
6	RP Snell	51	RSA	Srl	Col-RPS	04 Sep 1993
7	SK Warne	55	Aus	RSA	Port Elizabeth	04 Apr 1994
8	AY Karim	53	Ken	Zim	Nairobi (G)	19 Oct 1997
9	L Klusener	54*	RSA	Win	Cape Town	2 Feb 1999
10	L Klusener	52*	RSA	Srl	Northampton	19 May 1999
11	L Klusener	52*	RSA	Zim	Chelmsford	29 May 1999
12	NAM McLean	50*	Win	Zim	Canterbury	11 Jul 2000
13	B Lee	51*	Aus	RSA	Perth	03 Feb 2002
14	AJ Bichel	64	Aus	NZl	Port Elizabeth	11 Mar 2003
15	BB McCullum	51*	NZl	Aus	Pune	03 Nov 2003
16	Jai P Yadav	69	Ind	NZl	Bulawayo	26 Aug 2005
17	BB McCullum	50*	NZl	Aus	Christchurch	10 Dec 2005
18	LE Plunkett	56	Eng	Pak	Lahore	12 Dec 2005
19	AJ Hall	56*	RSA	Ind	Cape Town	26 Nov 2006
20	TM Odoyo	61*	Ken	Ire	Nairobi (R)	02 Feb 2007
21	GB Brent	59*	Zim	RSA	Bulawayo	22 Aug 2007
22	Sohail Tanvir	59	Pak	HKG	Karachi	24 Jun 2008
23	KD Mills	54	NZl	Ind	Christchurch	08 Mar 2009
24	Mahbubul Alam	59	Ban	Zim	Bulawayo	14 Aug 2009
25	NO Miller	51	Win	Pak	Johannesburg	23 Sep 2009
26	P Kumar	54*	Ind	Aus	Guwahati	08 Nov 2009
27	DJG Sammy	58*	Win	RSA	North Sound	24 May 2010
28	KD Mills	52	NZl	Ind	Dambulla	25 Aug 2010
29	AD Russell	92*	Win	Ind	North Sound	11 Jun 2011
30	DJG Sammy	84	Win	Aus	Gros Islet	25 Mar 2012
31	AD Russell	59*	Win	NZl	Basseterre	16 Jul 2012
32	MA Starc	52*	Aus	Srl	Sydney	20 Jan 2013
33	Abdur Razzak	53*	Ban	Zim	Bulawayo	05 May 2013
34	JP Faulkner	69*	Aus	Eng	Brisbane	17 Jan 2014
35	NLTC Perera	80*	Srl	Ban	Dhaka	17 Feb 2014
36	JO Holder	56	Win	RSA	Sydney	27 Feb 2015
37	JO Holder	57	Win	Ind	Perth	06 Mar 2015
38	AG Cremer	58	Zim	Afg	Sharjah	02 Jan 2016
39	Shafiqullah	50*	Afg	Ire	Greater Noida	19 Mar 2017
40	B Kumar	53*	Ind	Srl	Pallekele	24 Aug 2017

 

B Kumar of India scored 53 not out against Sri Lanka at Pallekele on 24 Aug 2017 to provide the fourth occasion of an Indian batsman scoring a half century while batting at number nine in the history of one day internationals. All such occasions are tabulated below. S Madanlal with his 53 not out against England at The Oval on 04.06.82 is the first batsman to score a half century while batting at number nine  in the annals of one  day games.

 

 

No	Player	Runs	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	S Madan Lal	53*	Ind	Eng	The Oval	04 Jun 1982
2	Jai P Yadav	69	Ind	NZl	Bulawayo	26 Aug 2005
3	P Kumar	54*	Ind	Aus	Guwahati	08 Nov 2009
4	B Kumar	53*	Ind	Srl	Pallekele	24 Aug 2017

 

B Kumar of India scored 53 not out against Sri Lanka at Pallekele on 24 Aug 2017 to provide the fourth occasion of a batsman scoring a half century while batting at number nine against Sri Lanka in the history of one day internationals. All such occasions are tabulated below.

 

No	Player	Runs	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	RP Snell	51	RSA	Srl	Col-RPS	04 Sep 1993
2	L Klusener	52*	RSA	Srl	Northampton	19 May 1999
3	MA Starc	52*	Aus	Srl	Sydney	20 Jan 2013
4	B Kumar	53*	Ind	Srl	Pallekele	24 Aug 2017

 

B Kumar holds the record for scoring most runs against Sri Lanka while batting at number. The previous best was 52 not out and two batsmen had made this score – L Klusener at Northampton on 19.05.99 and MA Starc at Sydney on 20.01.13

 

No	Player	Runs	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	B Kumar	53*	Ind	Srl	Pallekele	24 Aug 2017
2	MA Starc	52*	Aus	Srl	Sydney	20 Jan 2013
3	L Klusener	52*	RSA	Srl	Northampton	19 May 1999