Batting order

Each batter at their most frequent position this season

PosBatterPositions batted (innings)InnsRunsSR
1Parthiv Patel1 (17), 2 (2), 3 (1), 7 (1)2149181.6
1Virender Sehwag1 (8), 2 (4)12645123.1
1Murali Vijay1 (2), 2 (1)31841.9
2Ajinkya Rahane2 (10), 1 (1)1134075.1
2Sachin Tendulkar2 (11)1151388.6
2Shikhar Dhawan2 (3), 1 (1)46957.0
3Gautam Gambhir3 (14), 1 (3), 2 (1), 4 (1)1972087.1
3Rahul Dravid3 (5)512477.5
4Virat KohliMoved around4 (17), 3 (12), 5 (2), 7 (2), 6 (1)34138185.6
4Manoj Tiwary4 (3), 2 (1), 7 (1)516380.7
4Subramaniam Badrinath4 (3)34047.1
5Rohit Sharma5 (10), 1 (2), 2 (1), 4 (1), 6 (1), 7 (1)1661182.7
5Yuvraj SinghMoved around5 (6), 4 (5), 6 (2)1345381.9
6Suresh RainaMoved around6 (12), 5 (9), 7 (4), 3 (1), 4 (1)2772299.6
6MS Dhoni6 (14), 5 (5), 7 (2), 4 (1)2276489.9
7Yusuf Pathan7 (9), 3 (1), 4 (1), 5 (1), 6 (1)13282121.0
7Ravindra Jadeja7 (8), 4 (1)922087.0
8Harbhajan Singh8 (11)1110767.3
8Ravichandran Ashwin8 (8), 9 (2)1012280.3
8Irfan Pathan8 (1)1440.0
9Zaheer Khan9 (6), 10 (2)86250.4
9Praveen Kumar9 (6), 8 (1)751110.9
9Vinay KumarMoved around9 (2), 10 (2)42436.9
9Amit Mishra9 (1), 10 (1)2533.3
9Piyush Chawla9 (1), 10 (1)21066.7
10Ashish Nehra10 (5)5936.0
10Abhimanyu Mithun10 (1)123143.8
10Varun Aaron10 (1)1654.5
11Munaf Patel11 (5)51270.6
11Ishant Sharma11 (2)200.0
11Umesh Yadav11 (2)21789.5

Quick answers

Who opened the batting for India in ODI 2011?

India most often opened with Parthiv Patel and Virender Sehwag in ODI 2011, with Gautam Gambhir at No. 3.

Who batted as India's finisher?

Suresh Raina batted most often at No. 6 (27 innings, 722 runs).

How settled was the India top order?

Parthiv Patel batted at No. 1 in 81% of their innings; Virender Sehwag batted at No. 1 in 67% of their innings.