Tendulkar was often at his best against the best team of his generation, Australia. He scored 3077 runs against them at 44.59, which is 36% more than the second-best aggregate against them. The highlights were obviously the 143 and 134 in Sharjah in 1998, a year which was his best in ODIs: he scored 1894 runs at 65.31, including nine centuries. Both, the runs scored and the hundreds remain a record for a calendar year.
Even apart from those two Sharjah classics, he had seven hundreds against Australia, the last one being 175 - his highest against Australia - three years ago in Hyderabad. Tendulkar's nine hundreds is also record for a batsman against one opposition. (Tendulkar also has eight hundreds against Sri Lanka, while no other batsman has more than seven against an opposition.)
The one glitch in Tendulkar's stats, though, are his ODI numbers in Australia: just one century in 46 innings, and a below-par average of 34.67. Unlike in Tests, where he averages more than 50 against Australia both home and away, in ODIs Tendulkar's best against them came in the subcontinent: in Asia he average 55.30 against them in 40 innings, with eight centuries, but outside Asia he averaged 29.82 against them, with one century in 30 innings.
| Batsman | ODIs | Runs | Average | Strike rate | 100s/ 50s |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 71 | 3077 | 44.59 | 84.74 | 9/ 15 |
| Desmond Haynes | 64 | 2262 | 40.39 | 65.14 | 6/ 13 |
| Viv Richards | 54 | 2187 | 50.86 | 84.63 | 3/ 20 |
| Brian Lara | 51 | 1858 | 39.53 | 76.58 | 3/ 15 |
| Kumar Sangakkara | 44 | 1706 | 42.65 | 77.02 | 1/ 12 |
| Jacques Kallis | 50 | 1660 | 34.58 | 72.87 | 1/ 13 |
| Jonty Rhodes | 55 | 1610 | 40.25 | 77.92 | 0/ 10 |
| Richie Richardson | 51 | 1498 | 32.56 | 63.26 | 0/ 15 |