Cricket ODI World Cup: Individual Stats and Awards

ICC World Cup 2023 is delivering a power-packed cricket action to avid fans of this beautiful sport. It’s the 13th edition of the World Cup and cricket enthusiasts are expecting to witness some incredible matches throughout the competition. This time, India, the biggest stakeholder in this sport, is hosting the World Cup entirely and the International Cricket Council (ICC) is looking to make this tournament a huge success.

Amidst the blockbuster World Cup action, cricket fans need to know the names of outstanding achievers of this distinguished tournament. The success of these players attracted a lot of kids and young folks to take up the sport. Let’s revisit the individual stats and awards achieved by cricketing icons whose performances made the Cricket World Cup one of the most popular sporting events in the world.

Batting Statistics

Sachin Tendulkar, the Global Ambassador for the World Cup 2023, is considered the greatest batter of all time. In the World Cup, he is the leading run-getter with 2278 runs with six centuries and 15 fifties. The batting maestro appeared in six editions of the World Cup played between 1992 and 2011. Sachin also holds the feat of notching up the most runs in a single World Cup edition with his 673 runs in 11 outings in the 2003 World Cup.

Talking about the highest individual run-scorer record in the World Cup, New Zealand opener Martin Guptill owns the feat with his unbeaten 237-run knock from 163 deliveries against the West Indies in the 2015 World Cup q

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Bowling Statistics  

Former Australia pacer Glenn McGrath is the most successful bowler of the World Cup with 71 wickets in 39 outings at an impressive economy of 3.96. The Aussie also owns the record of clinching the best bowling figures in a World Cup contest. The former speedster grabbed 7/15 figures against Namibia in the 2003 World Cup installment and added this prestigious feat to his name. 

Fielding and wicketkeeping records

Former Australia player and two-time World Cup-winning captain Ricky Ponting holds the record for the most catches in the World Cup. The former Aussie stalwart took 28 grabs in 46 innings. Talking about the most successful wicketkeeper in the tournament, Sri Lanka’s former player Kumar Sangakkara is ruling the chart for performing the most dismissals (54) with 41 catches and 13 stumpings. 

Umpiring records

England’s David Shepherd, who passed away in 2009, still tops the chart of officiating the most World Cup matches, with 46 appearances from 1983 to 2003, while the West Indies’ Steve Bucknor officiated five consecutive World Cup finals played between 1992 and 2007 editions and broke into the records books, becoming the umpire with the highest number of finals.

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Player of the Tournament award winners

In the 1992 World Cup, the Player of the Tournament Award was introduced in the tournament. Martin Crowe, who chalked up 456 runs in nine matches for New Zealand, ended up as the leading run-getter and became the first recipient of the Player of the Tournament award.

Golden Bat winners

After every World Cup final, the Golden Bat Award is handed to the batter who ends up as the leading run-getter in the competition. Glenn Turner from New Zealand became the first winner of this prestigious award in the 1975 World Cup. Sachin Tendulkar is the only batter to clinch this award twice in the tournament, becoming the winner in 1996 and 2003.

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Golden Ball winners

The Golden Ball Award is handed to the highest wicket-taker following every World Cup final. Australia’s Gary Gilmour and the West Indies’ Bernard Julien became the joint winners of the Golden Ball in the maiden edition of the World Cup in 1975. The Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc is the only bowler to win this award two times, clinching it in 2015 and 2019.