With the few days ahead of the Cricket World Cup, let’s look at some of more records and highlights of the previous tournaments.
These are mostly related to individuals who excelled in their respective areas. Let’s see whether we are lucky enough to see any of these records being broken in 2011.
So once again, before we move into the post details, let’s wish our Sri Lankan Team all the very best, and that they’ll be able to make our paradise island proud, by winning the tournament.
- The first “Man of the Series” award was presented in the 1992 World Cup. For his 456 runs in the tournament and for the outstanding display of captaincy the award was won by Martin Crowe of New Zealand.
- Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most number of runs scored in World Cups. Upto the World Cup held in 2007, he had scored a total of 1796 runs. He also holds the record for the most number of runs in a single world cup (673), which he scored in the 2003 World Cup.
- Gary Kirsten holds the record for the highest score in a World Cup ODI, when he scored 188* against UAE in the 1996 World Cup.
- The highest partnership for any wicket is 318, between Rahul Dravid and Saurav Ganguly scored against Sri Lanka in 1999.
- Glenn McGrath dominates the bowling records, with the highest number of wickets in a single world cup (26), most career world cup wickets (71) and best bowling figures (15/7 – against Kenya, 2003 World Cup).
- The highest score in a World Cup ODI was scored by India who scored 413/5 against Namibia in 2007, while Canada were bowled out for the lowest score ever in 2003, when they were dismissed for 36 by Sri Lanka.
- Most consecutive wins in the history of World Cup is 23 by Australia.
interesting... :)
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