| Year | Player | Team | Innings | Runs | Highest Score | Average | Balls Faced | Strike Rate | 100 | 50 | 0s |
| 1975 | Glenn Turner | NZ | 4 | 333 | 171* | 166.5 | 486 | 68.51 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | Gordon Greenidge | WI | 4 | 253 | 106* | 84.33 | 406 | 62.31 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | David Gower | ENG | 7 | 384 | 130 | 76.8 | 452 | 84.95 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | Graham Gooch | ENG | 8 | 471 | 115 | 58.87 | 670 | 70.29 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | Martin Crowe | NZ | 9 | 456 | 100* | 114 | 502 | 90.83 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | Sachin Tendulkar | IND | 7 | 523 | 137 | 87.16 | 609 | 85.87 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | Rahul Dravid | IND | 8 | 461 | 145 | 65.85 | 539 | 85.52 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 2003 | Sachin Tendulkar | IND | 11 | 673 | 152 | 61.18 | 754 | 89.25 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 2007 | Matthew Hayden | AUS | 10 | 659 | 158 | 73.22 | 652 | 101.07 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2011 | Tillakaratne Dilshan | SL | 9 | 500 | 144 | 62.5 | 551 | 90.74 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2015 | Martin Guptill | NZ | 9 | 547 | 237* | 68.37 | 523 | 104.58 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Martin Guptill from New Zealand scored the most runs in World Cup 2015. He scored 547 runs in just 9 innings with a highest score of 237 ( not out ).
