All the best ODI Captains over the years, have their names in the list of most runs as captain in ODI. There are four Indian players with Virat Kohli having the highest average of 80.00.
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| Pos | Player | Country | Matches | Runs | Avg |
| 1 | Ricky Ponting | Australia | 230 | 8497 | 42.91 |
| 2 | M S Dhoni | India | 200 | 6641 | 53.56 |
| 3 | Stephen Fleming | New Zealand | 218 | 6295 | 32.79 |
| 4 | Arjuna Ranatunga | Sri Lanka | 193 | 5608 | 37.64 |
| 5 | Greame Smith | South Africa | 149 | 5414 | 39.23 |
| 6 | Mohammed Azharuddin | India | 175 | 5243 | 39.13 |
| 7 | Sourav Ganguly | India | 147 | 5104 | 38.67 |
| 8 | Virat Kohli | India | 86 | 5072 | 76.85 |
| 9 | AB de Villiers | South Africa | 103 | 4796 | 63.95 |
| 10 | Allan Border | Australia | 178 | 4439 | 32.17 |
*Updated on 21 Jan 2020
Only Virat Kohli is the present Captain in this list and the next probables on the most runs as captain in ODI list are Kane Wiliamson of New Zealand and Joe Root of England.
Legends like Arjuna Ranatunga who single handedly won the 1996 world cup for Sri Lanka and Mohammad Azharuddin also feature in the list of most ODI runs as captain.
