Cricket World Cup (ODI) Batting Statistics

Most runs : Sachin Tendulkar has scored most runs in cricket world cups. Tendulkar has scored 2278 runs in 6 world cups from 1992 to 2011. With 1743 runs in 5 world cups, Ricky Ponting is second most sucessful batsman of world cup. Kumar Sangakkara (1532), Brian Lara (1225) and AB de Villiers (1207) is at 3rd, 4th and 5th position, respectively.

In the list of top ten batsman, ranked by most runs in total world cup, Four batsman is from Sri Lanka and two batsman from Australia. India, Pakistan and South Africa has one each player in this list.

Highest Individual score : Martin Guptill holds the record of highest individual score in world cup. Martin Guptill has scored 237 (not out) runs in 2015 against West Indies. Chris Gayle has also scored 215 runs against Zimbabwe in 2015. Only these two batsman has made double century in world cup. Gary Kirsten (188*), Sourav Ganguly (183) and Vivian Richards (181) is at 3rd, 4th and 5th position, respectively. 19 batsman has crossed 150 marks in a world cup match.

Top scorer : Martin Guptill is the top scorer in 2015 with 547 runs. Sachin Tendulkar was top scorer in two tournaments. In 1996, Sachin scored total 523 runs and in 2003 scored 673 runs. Three times Indian batsman were top scorer in WC. Rahul Dravid was top scorer in 1996 WC with 461 runs. Three times New Zealand's batsman Glenn Turner (1975), Martin Crowe (1992) and Martin Guptill (2015) were made most runs.