Most runs in a bilateral ODI series

#4 George Bailey

Captain Bailey led from the front for Australia

Somewhat surprisingly, the Australian record for most runs in a bilateral ODI series doesn't belong to Dean Jones. Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Adam Gilchrist, Michael Clarke or Mike Hussey. Instead, it belongs to George Bailey, who scored 478 runs in the ODI series against India in India in 2013.

In a high-scoring series that saw 300 totals being the norm rather than the exception, Bailey stood out with the bat for the visitors as he was consistently amongst the runs. His tally of 478 runs from six ODIs came at an average of 95 and strike rate of 116.

Although he scored just a solitary 100 in that series, he did have three other fifties to his name as he set the tone for the visitors in the middle-order and led from the front. What makes his series even more special is that it came from the No.4 position and aside from his 156 in Nagpur, he also had scores of 85, 92* and 98 and only failed once in the series.