Aadya Sharma profiles the greatest run-scorers in the history of the Cricket World Cup.
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Fifty-over cricket may be facing increased threats to its relevance in the global game, but the ODI World Cup continues to serve as the pinnacle of limited-overs batting. T20s have created their own brand of power-hitting, but still pale in comparison to the skillset required to succeed in the grandeur of the World Cup, cricket’s biggest showpiece event.
With the thirteenth iteration soon to get underway, we list the top 10 run-scorers in Cricket World Cup history.
Tillakaratne Dilshan (1,112 runs @ 52.95; 4 100s; 4 50s)
The leader on almost all major batting lists in World Cups matches, Tendulkar was a part of six Indian campaigns starting in 1992, and finally finished as a World Cup winner after 45 appearances. His tally of 673 runs in 2003 is still the most by a batsman in a single edition of the World Cup.
Excluding 2007, Tendulkar averaged over 40 in all the World Cups he played, featuring in two finals, and finishing with the most number of centuries, and half-centuries, among all batsmen.
