After a breathtaking final, we have England the hosts as the winners of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. But the man who managed to score the most runs this World Cup edition is India's Rohit Sharma with a total of 648 runs in 9 matches beating Australia's David Warner by just one run.
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Below is the list of record of Highest Runs in World Cup (each edition) :
Year | Player | Team | Innings | Runs | Highest Score | Average | Strike Rate | 100 | 50 |
2019 | Rohit Sharma | India | 9 | 648 | 140 | 81 | 98.33 | 5 | 1 |
2015 | Martin Guptill | New Zealand | 9 | 547 | 237* | 68.37 | 104.58 | 2 | 1 |
2011 | Tillakaratne Dilshan | Sri Lanka | 9 | 500 | 144 | 62.5 | 90.74 | 2 | 2 |
2007 | Matthew Hayden | Australia | 10 | 659 | 158 | 73.22 | 101.07 | 3 | 1 |
2003 | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 11 | 673 | 152 | 61.18 | 89.25 | 1 | 6 |
1999 | Rahul Dravid | India | 8 | 461 | 145 | 65.85 | 85.52 | 2 | 3 |
1996 | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 7 | 523 | 137 | 87.16 | 85.87 | 2 | 3 |
1992 | Martin Crowe | New Zealand | 9 | 456 | 100* | 114 | 90.83 | 1 | 4 |
1987 | Graham Gooch | England | 8 | 471 | 115 | 58.87 | 70.29 | 1 | 3 |
1983 | David Gower | England | 7 | 384 | 130 | 76.8 | 84.95 | 1 | 1 |
1979 | Gordon Greenidge | West Indies | 4 | 253 | 106* | 84.33 | 62.31 | 1 | 2 |
1975 | Glenn Turner | New Zealand | 4 | 333 | 171* | 166.5 | 68.51 | 2 | 0 |
Let's have a look at the top batsmen in this world cup with the most runs for the entire World Cup Edition :
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Span | Player | Team | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | SR | 100 | 50 |
1992-2011 | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 45 | 44 | 4 | 2278 | 152 | 56.95 | 88.98 | 6 | 15 |
1996-2011 | Ricky Ponting | Australia | 46 | 42 | 4 | 1743 | 140* | 45.86 | 79.95 | 5 | 6 |
2003-2015 | Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 37 | 35 | 8 | 1532 | 124 | 56.74 | 86.55 | 5 | 7 |
1992-2007 | Brian Lara | West Indies | 34 | 33 | 4 | 1225 | 116 | 42.24 | 86.26 | 2 | 7 |
2007-2015 | AB de Villiers | South Africa | 23 | 22 | 3 | 1207 | 162* | 63.52 | 117.29 | 4 | 6 |
2003-2019 | Chris Gayle | West Indies | 35 | 34 | 1 | 1186 | 215 | 35.93 | 90.53 | 2 | 6 |
1992-2007 | Sanath Jayasuriya | Sri Lanka | 38 | 37 | 3 | 1165 | 120 | 34.26 | 90.66 | 3 | 6 |
1996-2011 | Jacques Kallis | South Africa | 36 | 32 | 7 | 1148 | 128* | 45.92 | 74.4 | 1 | 9 |
2007-2019 | Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh | 29 | 29 | 4 | 1146 | 124* | 45.84 | 82.26 | 2 | 10 |
2007-2015 | Tillakaratne Dilshan | Sri Lanka | 27 | 25 | 4 | 1112 | 161* | 52.95 | 92.97 | 4 | 4 |
Sachin Tendulkar of India holds the record for Highest Runs in World Cup so far with a total of 2278 runs scored in 44 innings. Ricky Ponting of Australia stands second in the table, scoring 1743 runs in 42 innings.
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