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Cricket World Cup Records

One day internationals(ODIs) are the most exciting and entertaining matches since its started in the history of Cricket. Cricket World Cup is the biggest championship tournament of such one day matches. Cricket World Cup is contested between all test cricket playing nations and qualifiers. Since its beginning in 1975, so far 8 such tournaments are organized. Following summarizes the Batting, Bowling and other world records in Cricket World Cup tournaments.

World Cup Batting Records

Highest Top 5 Team Scores

  • 398-5 By Sri Lanka against Kenya, Kandy, 1996
  • 373-6 By India against Sri Lanka, Taunton 1999
  • 360-4 By West Indies against Sri Lanka, Karachi 1987
  • 359-2 By Australia against India, Johannesburg 2003
  • 340-2 By Zimbabwe against Namibia, Harare 2003

Lowest Top 5 Team Scores

  • 36 By Canada against Sri Lanka, Paarl 2003
  • 45 By Canada against England, Manchester 1979
  • 45 By Namibia against Australia, Potchefstroom 2003
  • 68 By Scotland against West Indies, Leicester 1999
  • 74 By Pakistan against England, Adelaide 1992

Highest Top 5 Individual Scores

  • 188* Gary Kirsten against United Arab Emirates, Rawalpindi 1996
  • 183 Saurav Ganguly against Sri Lanka, Taunton 1999
  • 181 Viv. Richards against Sri Lanka, Karachi 1987
  • 175* Kapil Dev against Zimbabwe, Tunbridge Wells 1983
  • 172* Wishart against Namibia, Harare 2003

Highest Top 5 Individual Total Runs in a Tournament

  • 673 Sachin Tendulkar(India) in 2003 Average 61.18
  • 523 Sachin Tendulkar(India) in 1996 Average 87.16
  • 484 Mark Waugh(Australia) in 1996 Average 80.66
  • 471 Greham Gooch(Englang) in 1987 Average 58.87
  • 465 Saurav Ganguly(India) in 2003 Average 58.12

Highest Top 5 Individual Total Scores in All Tournaments

  • 1732 Sachin Tendulkar(India) Average 59.72
  • 1083 Javed Miandad(Pakistan) Average 43.32
  • 1064 Arvinda de Silva(Sri Lanka) Average 36.68
  • 1013 Viv. Richards(West Indies) Average 63.31
  • 1004 Mark Waugh(Australia) Average 52.84

Highest Top 5 Partnerships

  • 318 R Dravid & SC Ganguly, 2nd wicket, India v Sri Lanka - 1999
  • 244 SR Tendulkar & SC Ganguly, 2nd wicket, India v Namibia - 2003
  • 237* R Dravid & SR Tendulkar, 2nd wicket, India v Kenya - 1999
  • 234* RT Ponting & DR Martyn, 2nd wicket, Australia v India - 2003
  • 228 JF Kloppenburg & KJJ van Noortwijk, 2nd wicket, Netherlands v Namibia - 2003

World Cup Bowling Records

Top 5 Best Bowling in an Innings

  • 7/15 GD McGrath Australia v Namibia , 2003
  • 7/20 AJ Bichel Australia v England , 2003
  • 7/51 WW Davis West Indies v Australia , 1983
  • 6/14 GJ Gilmour Australia v England , 1975
  • 6/23 SE Bond New Zealand v Australia, 2003
  • 6/23 A Nehra India v England , 2003

Top 5 Most Wickets takers in a Tournament

  • 23/331 C. Vaas(Sri Lanka), 2003
  • 22/394 B. Lee(Australia), 2003
  • 21/310 G. McGrath(Australia), 2003
  • 20/325 G. Allott(New Zealand), 1999
  • 20/361 S. Warne(Australia), 1999

Top 5 Most Wicket takers in all Tournaments

  • 55/1311 Wasim Akram(Pakistan) Average 23.83
  • 45/935 Glen McGrath(Australia) Average 20.77
  • 44/1224 Javagal Srinath(India) Average 27.81
  • 38/913 Alen Donald(South Africa) Average 24.02
  • 36/754 Chaminda Vaas(Sri Lanka) Average 20.94

Hat Tricks in World Cups

  • By C. Sharma For India Against New Zealand, 1987
  • By S. Mushtaq For Pakistan Against Zimbabwe, 1999
  • By C. Vaas For Sri Lanka Against Bangladesh, 2003
  • By B. Lee For Australia Against Kenya, 2003

World Cup Other Interesting Records

Top 5 Fastest Hundreds in World Cup

  • 67 Balls By J. Davison For Canada Against West Indies, 2003
  • 72 Balls By Kapil Dev For India Against Zimbabwe, 1983
  • 82 Balls By C. Lloyd For West Indies Against Australia, 1975
  • 83 Balls By B. Lara For West Indies Against South Africa, 1996
  • 84 Balls By S. Tendulkar For India Against Kenya, 1999

Top 5 Fastest Fifties in World Cup

  • 23 Balls By B. Lara For West Indies Against Canada, 2003
  • 24 Balls By W. Hinds For West Indies Against Canada, 2003
  • 25 Balls By J. Davison For Canada Against New Zealand, 2003
  • 25 Balls By A. Blignaut For Zimbabwe Against Australia, 2003
  • 28 Balls By T. Moody For Australia Against Bangladesh, 1999

Top 5 Most Ducks in World Cup Career

  • 5 Times By N. Astle(New Zealand)
  • 5 Times By I. Ahmed(Pakistan)
  • 4 Times By K. Arthurton(West Indies)
  • 4 Times By K. Srikkanth(India)
  • 4 Times By Inzamam-ul-Haq(Pakistan)

Pakistan cricket tour 2007 to south africa 3rd Test

South Africa win the match by 5 wickets and the series 2-1
Man of the match JH Kallis
Man of the Series JH Kallis

Pakistan cricket tour 2007 to south africa 3rd Test, Day 1
South Africa trail by 26 runs with 5 wickets left.

Latest Score
First innings
Pakistan 157 (Mohammad Yousuf 83 , JH Kallis 42/4, M Ntini 44/4)
South Africa 131/5 ( GC Smith 64, Mohammad Asif 20/2)

South Africa won the toss and elected to field first in 3rd Test match of Pakistan cricket tour 2007 to south africa. They made wise decision when Ntini started crushing Pakistan innings. Pakistan loose their 6 wickets when only 90 was on the board. Once again it was brellient innings from Mohammad Yousuf (83) and the 7th wicket partnership of 60 help manage them to reach 150. Then they loose last 4 wickets in the gap of only 7 runs with total of 157 runs. Kallis and Ntini take 4 wickets each. Pakistan fights well taking wickets regularly and come back in the game as South Africa are at 131/5. Though Smith was looking danger but could not make the job done as he depart at 64.

Pakistan cricket tour 2007 to south africa 3rd Test, Day 2
South Africa need 125 runs to win the match with 8 wickets left.

Latest Score
First innings
Pakistan 157 (Mohammad Yousuf 83 , JH Kallis 42/4, M Ntini 44/4)
South Africa 183 ( GC Smith 64, Kaneria 44/3, Asif 53/3 )
Second innings
Pakistan 186 (Hameed 35 , Sami 31, Steyn 47/3)
South Africa 36-2 ( GC Smith 33*, Kaneria 2/2 )

Pakistan continue fighting from the start of the day and they took 2 wickets early in the morning. Mark Boucher(40) single handed manage to take South Africa pass Pakistan total. In the end South Africa lead by just 26 runs. Nothing magic happend in Pakistan second innings as no one looks comfortable against South Africa bowling attack. Hameed (35), Shahid Nazir (27), Inzamam-ul-Haq (22) and Mohammad Yousuf (18) all got a start but could not manage to play longer innings. At one stage Pakistan were at 121/7 when they lost their last hope Inzamam-ul-Haq only on 22. But, then their tail enders really done a very good job and added an important 65 to the total and manage to set target of 161 for South Africa. Smith started their chase positively but they lost 2 wickets at the end of the day

Pakistan cricket tour 2007 to south africa 3rd Test, Day 3
South Africa win the match by 5 wickets and the series 2-1

Latest Score
First innings
Pakistan 157 (Mohammad Yousuf 83 , JH Kallis 42/4, M Ntini 44/4)
South Africa 183 ( GC Smith 64, Kaneria 44/3, Asif 53/3 )
Second innings
Pakistan 186 (Hameed 35 , Sami 31, Steyn 47/3)
South Africa 161-5 (AG Prince 59*, JH Kallis 51 )

In the end South Africa manage to win the tough game by 5 wickets. It was turning to an exciting stage when South Africa lost Smith and Amla early in the day and collapsed to 39/4. But Prince and Kallis made no further mistakes and took their side to comprehensive win by 5 wickets and the series by 2-1. Kallis named man of the match for his all rounder performance and also man of the series.

Pakistan cricket tour 2007 to south africa 2nd Test

Pakistan won the match by 5 wickets level the series 1-1
Man of the match Inzamam-ul-Haq

Second test match of Pakistan cricket tour 2007 to south africa Played at Port Elizabeth, on 19-23 January 2007. South Africa set the target of 191 with 2 days remaining in the match. It was entering an interesting phase when Pakistan was at 92/5 when Inzamam departs immediately after Mohammad Yousuf. But South Africa could not do more than just watching a superb innings from Kamran Akmal. He and Younis Khan took it away from South Africa with an impressive partnership of 101 and lead to a comprehensive win and level the series.

Score
First innings

  • South Africa 124
  • MV Boucher 35, GC Smith 28,JH Kallis 24
  • Shoaib Akhtar 36/4, Danish Kaneria 36/3
  • Pakistan 265
  • Inzamam-ul-Haq 92, Younis Khan 45, Kamran Akmal 33
  • M Ntini 59/6, SM Pollock 42/2
Second innings
  • South Africa 331
  • JH Kallis 91, MV Boucher 46, HH Gibbs 40
  • Mohammad Asif 76/5, Danish Kaneria 105/4
  • Pakistan 191/5
  • Younis Khan* 67, Kamran Akmal* 57, Mohammad Hafeez 32
  • SM Pollock 47/2, M Ntini 50/2

Pakistan cricket tour 2007 to south africa 1st Test

First test match of Pakistan cricket tour 2007 to south africa Played at Centurion, on 11-15 January 2007.

South Africa won by 7 wickets
Man of the match HM Amla

Pakistan Team:
Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Farhat, Yasir Hameed, Younis Khan, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Faisal Iqbal, Kamran Akmal, Shahid Nazir, Naved-ul-Hasan, Danish Kaneria, Mohammad Asif

South Africa Team:
AB de Villiers, GC Smith, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AG Prince, HH Gibbs, MV Boucher, SM Pollock, PL Harris, A Nel, M Ntini

Score
First innings

  • Pakistan 313
  • Younis Khan 68, Yasir Hameed 65,Inzamam 42
  • Ntini 83/5, Nel 100/3
  • South Africa 417
  • AG Prince 138, HH Gibbs 94, HM Amla 71
  • Mohammad Asif 89/5, Danish Kaneria 97/3
Second innings
  • Pakistan 302
  • Imran Farhat 68, Shahid Nazir 40, Younis Khan 38
  • PL Harris 46/4, SM Pollock 60/3
  • South Africa 199
  • HM Amla* 64, JH Kallis* 60, GC Smith 32
  • Mohammad Asif 56/2, Mohammad Hafeez 36/1

India cricket tour 2006 to south africa 3rd Test

South Africa win the match by 5 wickets and the series 2-1
Man of the match Smith
Man of the series Pollock

India cricket tour 2006, south africa 3rd Test, Day 1
India 254/3 in their first innings.

Latest Score
First innings
India 254/3 (Jaffer 116, Karthik 63)
South Africa

This is the 2nd test match of the year 2007 India cricket tour to South Africa started on 2nd January at Newlands, Cape Town. This was turning to be an ordinary test cricket day on a flat track. India won the toss and opted to bat first. Dinesh Karthik, who comes in place of injured Dhoni, joined with Jaffer to start Indian innings and they comes up with the highest opening partnership for india in South Africa, put 153 on the board. After very hard work for first two session, third one coming out to be batter for South Africa and they manage to take 3 wickets. In the end Tendulkar was looking good and lets hope for a batter innings from him before the forthing world cup. Finally India were 254/3 at the end of the first day of 3rd test match of the tour.

India cricket tour 2006, south africa 3rd Test, Day 2
South Africa trail by 270 runs with 9 wickets left, first innings

Latest Score
First innings
India 414 (Jaffer 116, Ganguly 66, Tendulkar 64, Pollock 75/4 )
South Africa 144/1 (Smith 76*, Amla 50*)

It was superb bowling from Paul Harris and Shaun Pollock on the slow wicket. India failed to make big score as they truble after fantastic start of their innings. They lost thier last 5 wicket in just 19 runs and collapsed to 414/10 from 395/5. A positive start from Smith(76*) lead South Africa fight back in the game. There was nice support from Amla (50*) after loosing de Villiers early and they manage to put South Africa at 144/1 at the end of the day.

India cricket tour 2006, south africa 3rd Test, Day 3
India lead by 41 runs with 10 wickets left, second innings

Latest Score
First innings
India 414 (Jaffer 116, Ganguly 66, Tendulkar 64, Pollock 75/4 )
South Africa 373 (Smith 94, Amla 63, Kallis 54, Kuble 117/4)

South Africa started the day comfortably with Smith playing an important innings before he was caught brilliently by Sehwag. This was the 9th victims by Kumble in 90s equals the Kapil Dev's records in test match. Kallis(54) and Prince(26) started playing quite sensibly after Amla(63) dismissed Immediately following Smith. They added an important 83 in the total before Tendulkar dismissed danger looking Kalis. The game turn around on Indias way when they loose 3 wickets in just 21 runs and collapsed to 281/6 from 260/3. But an important 69 run stand between Pollock and Boucher lead South Africa to the comperative total. In the end they loose thier last 3 wickets in just 1 run gap and India manage to lead by 41 runs, could be the crucial one.

India cricket tour 2006, south africa 3rd Test, Day 4
India needs 8 wickets, South Africa needs 156 runs

Latest Score
First innings
India 414 (Jaffer 116, Ganguly 66, Tendulkar 64, Pollock 75/4 )
South Africa 373 (Smith 94, Amla 63, Kallis 54, Kuble 117/4)
Second innings
India 169 (Dravid 47, Ganguly 46, Karthik 38, Steyn 30/4)
South Africa 55/2 (Smith 21*)

It was very poor batting performance from India and superb bowling from South Africa manage to restrict India on just 169. With an easy target of 211 on the flat wicket, South Africa started their innings quite comfortably before they loose 2 wickets at the end of the day.

India cricket tour 2006, south africa 3rd Test, Day 5
South Africa win the match by 5 wickets and the series 2-1, man of the match Smith

Latest Score
First innings
India 414 (Jaffer 116, Ganguly 66, Tendulkar 64, Pollock 75/4 )
South Africa 373 (Smith 94, Amla 63, Kallis 54, Kuble 117/4)
Second innings
India 169 (Dravid 47, Ganguly 46, Karthik 38, Steyn 30/4)
South Africa 211/5 (Smith 55, Prince 38*, Zaheer 62/4 )

Smith and Pollock started the day and their chase comfortably before the rain stopped the play. Smith looks aggresive to an indian pace-spin attack when play resumes after the rain. Removal of Smith and Pollock in short period by Zaheer changed the flavour of the game little. But then Kallis and Prince made no further mistakes and steadily took South Africa to the victory before Zaheer removed Kallis just 1 run short to beat india. Zaheer has bowled remarkably well today but there was no support from the other end. Finally all-rounder performance from South Africa team took them to the match and the series win.

Ashes cricket tour 2006/07 5th Test SCG

Australia won the match by 10 wickets and the series by 5-0.
Man Of the Match Stuart Clark
Man Of the Series Ricky Ponting


Ashes cricket tour 2006/07 5th Test, Day 1
England 234/4, 1st innings

Latest Score
First innings
England 234/4 (IR Bell 71, A Flintoff 42* )
Australia

This was the 5th and the last test match of Ashes cricket tour 2006/07 and the first test match of year 2007, started on 2nd January at Sydney. Langer, Warne and McGrath appearing for the last time in their test match cricket career. England won the toss and elected to bat first on delayed start of play due to rain. This was turning out to be an ordinary test cricket day with England put 234/4 on the board. For the third wicket partnership between Bell (71) and Pietersen (41) added 108. In the end Andrew Flintoff (42*) and Paul Collingwood (25*) sounds more confident and lead the score to 234/4.

Ashes cricket tour 2006/07 5th Test, Day 2
Australia trail by 103 runs with 6 wickets left in the 1st innings

Latest Score
First innings
England 291 (IR Bell 71, A Flintoff 89, Clark 62/3 )
Australia 188/4 (Ponting 45, M Hussey 37*)

England failed once again to take advantage of good start loosing thier remaining 6 wickets in morning session and collapsed to 291/10 from 245/5. Although superb innings from Flintoff(89) manage england to reach 291. Australia started thier innings comfortably with Langer looked somewhat in hurry playing in his last test match. Ponting(45) was looking nice and added 64 to the total with Hayden(33) before he runout. Then after loosing Clark(11) early Hussey(37*) and Symonds(22*) playing quite sensibly till the end of the day 2. Quite a mixed day for both the team and the match is turning out to be in an interesting position.

Ashes cricket tour 2006/07 5th Test, Day 3
England lead by 12 runs with 5 wickets left in the 2nd innings

Latest Score
First innings
England 291 (IR Bell 71, A Flintoff 89, Clark 62/3 )
Australia 393 (Warne 71, Gilchrist 62, Anderson 98/3 )
Second innings
England 114/5 (Pietersen 29*, S. Clark 29/2 )
Australia

England in a big big trouble of the 3rd day, 5th Test Ashes cricket tour 2006/07. They are just 12 runs ahead in 2nd innings with loss of their top orders. It once again was the rocking cricket day for Australia from the begaining of the play of 3rd day. It was rocking innings from Warne(71), playing in his last Test Match, after crackling started by Symonds and Gilchrist. Was very good support from S Clark(35), they added valuable 68 to the score for 9th wicket. In the end they manage to put total of 393 with crucial lead of 102. England then started their innings with Cook falling very early on just 5 on the board. They never come back in the game as wickets are falling on regular interval. In the end they trumbling on 114/5 (Leading by 12 runs) in their second innings at the stumps on 3rd day.

Ashes cricket tour 2006/07 5th Test, Day 4
Australia won the match by 10 wickets - Man Of the Match Stuart Clark

Latest Score
First innings
England 291 (IR Bell 71, A Flintoff 89, Clark 62/3 )
Australia 393 (Warne 71, Gilchrist 62, Anderson 98/3 )
Second innings
England 147 (Pietersen 29, McGrath 38/3)
Australia 46/0 (Hayden 23*, Langer 20*)

Nothing worked out for England on the 4th day of 5th and the last match of the tour. Thir last hope Pietersen came to an end when he was out on very third ball of the day without adding anything to thier overnite score. Finally their innings come to an end on only 147 with Australia need just 46 to win the test match. Hayden and Langer, appearing as an opening pair for the last time, done the job in just 11 overs. Stuart Clark's declared Man of the Match. This is the end of Ashes cricket tour 2006/07 with Australia winning the Ashes by 5-0.