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Top 10 Highest Run Scorer in Cricket World Cup History 50 Overs

Top 10 Highest Run Scorer in Cricket World Cup
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1. Tillakaratne Dilshan

Tillakaratne Dilshan is a Sri Lankan Cricketer. He was a most run getter in 2011 world cup- 500 runs. His favourite shot Dil scoop is founded by him. He scored the highest 161 runs against Bangladesh, which is the highest scored by a Sri Lankan batsman. 

His total runs 1112 with an average of 52.95. He was considered as a best Batsmen in the Sri Lanka team line up.

2. Sachin Tendulkar

The God of Cricket ‘Sachin Tendulkar’ scored the most runs in the ICC World Cup History. He is known for his record making ability, not only in the world cup, but a leader in almost all the format of cricket. He has the record of scoring 673 runs in 2003, is the most by any batsmen in the world cup. 

He also carries the record for most Half Centuries and Centuries amongst all the batsman. Sachin scored total 2278 runs with the strike rate of 56.95.

3. Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara is a Sri Lankan cricketer and hold a most successful wicketkeeper with 54 dismissals. 2015 world cup series was one of the best series for him. 

He scored total 541 runs with the strike rate of 108.20. It also includes four back-to-back centuries and by doing so, he was the first batsmen to do so in ODIs. 

As captain, he took Sri Lanka to finals against India, scoring 465 runs with the average of 93.00, which also included one century and three fifties. Total runs scored by him- 1532 with the average of 56.74.

4. Jonathan Trott

Jonathan Trott is an English Cricketer. Trott went on to play a key component in England keeping the Ashes in Australia in 2010-11 the primary time they had received a Test collection there in almost a quarter of a century with centuries at Adelaide and Melbourne and the defeat of India in England the following summer to assume the No.1 Test ranking. His standing as the greatest No.

Three England had possessed for decades turned into showed. Despite a incredibly lean 2012, at some point of which he averaged 38.65, Trott’s exceptional consistency changed into demonstrated via a run at the begin of the subsequent yr, whilst his lowest score in 17 consecutive Test and ODI innings was 27, with two masses and six half of-centuries.

5. Upul Tharanga

Upul Tharanga is a Sri Lankan Batsmen. A batsman who has frustrated and pleased in same measure. Although his Test profession has by no means simply taken off – his Test centuries have come extra than 10 years aside – in ODIs he maintains illustrious employer among Sri Lanka’s best.

As of 2017, only Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara and Sanath Jayasuriya had scored extra than Tharanga’s thirteen one-day centuries.

Tharanga’s name-up to the Sri Lanka one-day squad in July 2005 brightened 12 months marred by the Asian tsunami, which washed away his family domestic in a fishing city on the west coast.

6. Gautam Gambhir

Gautam Gambhir become one of the most entire batsmen between 2008 and the 2011 World Cup. He opened well in all three sorts of the game.

He can be greater competitive than Virender Sehwag, played the kind of back-to-the-wall innings that might do Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman proud, and gathered with out taking any risks, similar to Sachin Tendulkar has been doing within the last sector of his profession.

Gambhir nearly did now not make it, “not looking to play anymore” whilst he became dropped for the 2007 World Cup.

7. Virendra Sehwag

There will be no Indian Test XI of all-time with out Virender Sehwag featuring in it as an opener. This is the equal participant who turned into no where in competition for an area in the longest format. Sehwag could be the most crucial player put up-2000 as he modified batting manuals absolutely with elan.

This turned into on proof specially at some stage in India’s critical Test excursions against Australia and Pakistan in 2003/04 where he scored in massive quantity to affect a draw and a win respectively. Here turned into an opener who would assault bowlers from the phrase pass.

Sanath Jayasuriya had shown that during ODIs prior to him but in Tests it turned into Sehwag who gave the miss inform all earlier conceptions of batting.

8. Yuvraj Singh

Yuvraj Singh is an Indian Cricketer. When all is well with Yuvraj Singh, he hits the ball as smooth and long because it has ever been hit. When all isn’t always nicely, he appears so awkward you forget about he can hit the ball clean and long. All has been nicely with Yuvraj extra regularly in confined-overs cricket.

Wherein he can be convenient and brutal on the equal time, then in Tests, though his form and consistency has been at the decline considering his comeback following a recuperation from an extraordinary shape of germ cell most cancers in 2012.

When he commenced off, although, his athleticism on the sphere and his canny left-arm spin made him a key one-day player as Indian cricket went via a makeover at the turn of the century.

9. Ab De Villiers

Ab De Villiers didn’t get chance to win the title in any of the edition. He played in 2007, 2011 and 2015. But he is know for his massive run scoring in world cups, the highest average in the list 63.52. 

He played his first world cup in 2007, it was an extreme series for him as he got four ducks and 372 runs in 10 matches.

In 2011, he scored a beautiful two centuries and in 2015 he posted 482 runs, which includes 162 against West Indies. It was also a fastest 150 runs in ODIs. The total runs scored by him 1207, with the average of 63.52.

10. Andrew Strauss

Strauss’ contribution to England cricket did not stop there though. He turned into appointed to the newly created function of director of England cricket in May 2015, and his first act become to sack the incumbent coach, Peter Moores.

Strauss also oversaw the appointment of Trevor Bayliss as the brand new teach and endorsed that greater emphasis is given to limited-overs cricket.

That preliminary technique bore fruit in 2019 as England won the ICC 50-over World Cup. In September 2019, his contributions to England Cricket have been regarded as he became given knighthood.

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