World Cup Records

Cricket World Cup - Most Wickets



Name              wickets   Best

Wasim Akram (P) 43 4-32 
AA Donald (SA) 37  4-17 
Imran Khan (P) 34 4-37 
SK Warne (A) 32 4-29 
IT Botham (E) 30 4-31 
CZ Harris (NZ) 30 4-7 
PAJ DeFreitas (E) 29 3-28 
Kapil Dev (I) 28 5-43 
J Srinath (I) 28 3-34 
S Waugh (A) 27 3-36 
CJ McDermott (A) 27 5-44
CA Walsh (WI) 27 4-25 
DW Fleming (A) 26 5-36 
AME Roberts (WI) 26 3-32 
Mushtaq Ahmed (P) 26 3-16

Hat-tricks
Chetan Sharma, India v New Zealand at Nagpur 1987-88
Saqlain Mushtaq, Pakistan v Zimbabwe at The Oval 1999

Top Individual Scores

188* G Kirsten South Africa v United Arab Emirates at Rawalpindi 1995-96
183 SC Ganguly India v Sri Lanka at Taunton 1999
181 IVA Richards West Indies v Sri Lanka at Karachi 1987-88
175* Kapil Dev India v Zimbabwe at Tunbridge Wells 1983
171* GM Turner New Zealand v East Africa at Birmingham 1975
161 AC Hudson South Africa v Holland at Rawalpindi 1995-96
145 PA de Silva Sri Lanka v Kenya at Kandy 1995-96
145 R Dravid India v Sri Lanka at Taunton 1999
142 DL Houghton Zimbabwe v New Zealand at Hyderabad (India) 1987-88
140* SR Tendulkar India v Kenya at Bristol 1999
Highest scores for other Test-playing countries
137 DL Amiss England v India at Lord's 1975
130 ME Waugh Australia v Kenya at Vishakhapatnam 1995-96
119* Ramiz Raja Pakistan v New Zealand at Christchurch 1991-92

Most Runs Scored



  M I NO R HS 100s Avge 
Javed Miandad (P) 33 30 5 1,083 103 1 43.32 
SR Tendulkar (I) 22 21 3 1,059 140* 3 58.83 
IVA Richards (WI) 23 21 5 1,013 181 3 63.31 
ME Waugh (A) 22 22 3 1,004 130 4 52.84 
SR Waugh (A) 33 30 10 978 120* 1 48.90 
A Ranatunga (SL) 30 29 8 969 88* 0 46.14 
GA Gooch (E) 21 21 1 897 115 1 44.85 
MD Crowe (NZ) 21 21 5 880 100* 1 55.00 
DL Haynes (WI) 25 25 2 854 105 1 37.13 
M Azharuddin (I) 30 25 4 825 93 0 39.28 
DC Boon (A) 16 16 1 815 100 2 54.33


Team Records

Highest total 398-5 Sri Lanka v Kenya Kandy 1995-96
Batting second 313-7 Sri Lanka v ZImbabwe New Plymouth 1991-92
Lowest total 45 Canada v England Manchester 1979
Highest aggregate 652-12 Sri Lanka v Kenya Kandy 1995-96

Largest victories 10 wkts India beat East Africa Leeds 1975
10 wkts West Indies beat Zimbabwe Birmingham 1983
10 wkts West Indies beat Pakistan Melbourne 1991-92
202 runs England beat India Lord's 1975
Narrowest victories 1 wkt West Indies beat Pakistan Birmingham 1975
1 wkt Pakistan beat West Indies Lahore 1987-88
1 run Australia beat India Madras 1987-88
1 run Australia beat India Brisbane 1991-92



W F SF P W L T NR 
Australia (7) 2 4 4 47 29 17 1 0 
West Indies (7) 2 3 4 43 28 14 0 1 
Pakistan (7) 1 2 5 47 27 19 0 1 
India (7) 1 1 3 44 22 21 0 1 
Sri Lanka (7) 1 1 1 37 12 23 0 2 
England (7) 0 3 5 45 28 16 0 1 
New Zealand (7) 0 0 4 44 23 20 0 1 
South Africa (3) 0 0 2 24 16 7 1 0 
Zimbabwe (5) 0 0 0 33 6 26 0 1 
Bangladesh (1) 0 0 0 5 2 3 0 0 
United Arab Emirates (1) 0 0 0 5 1 4 0 0 
Kenya (2) 0 0 0 10 1 9 0 0 
Canada (1) 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 
East Africa (1) 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 
Holland (1) 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 
Scotland (1) 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0

Thanks for the information

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Some of these records will be broken in this cup.

Ya like Miandad's Most Runs Scored recorded will be taken by Tendulkar.