ICC Cricket World Cup: Top run scorers in every edition

By Umama Momin
Published on | Oct 22, 2023

1975

New Zealand's Glenn Turner scored 333 runs in 4 matches to clinch the pole position, no Indian in Top 5

1979

World Cup winners West Indies' Gordon Greenidge took home the top-scorer title with 253 runs from 4 matches

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1983

England's David Gower was the highest run-scorer while skipper Kapil Dev became the first Indian to feature in the top-5 with 303 runs

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1987

No one from defending champions India was among the top-5 as Englishman Graham Gooch emerged on top of list with 471 runs

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1992

New Zealand's Martin Crowe scored 456 runs across 9 games to finish top of the charts

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1996

In his second World Cup appearance, Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar scored a whopping 523 runs across 7 matches which included 2 centuries

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1999

For the second time in a row, an Indian topped the list. In 8 games, Rahul 'The Wall' Dravid made 461 runs while Sourav Ganguly was 3rd with 379 runs

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2003

Sachin Tendulkar dominated with 673 runs at a strike-rate of 89.25 including a century in 11 outings and Sourav Ganguly was in 2nd spot with 465 runs

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2007

India failed to even make it to the super 8 as prolific Australian batter Matthew Hayden scored 659 runs to end with most runs in the event

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2011

Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan amassed 500 runs in 9 games while winners India's Sachin Tendulkar finished second with 482 runs in his final WC

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2015

New Zealand's Martin Guptill scored 547 runs at strike-rate of 104.58 ending his tournament as the top scorer

2019

India's Rohit Sharma was on a roll scoring 5 centuries in 9 games to amass a monumental 648 runs at a strike-rate of 98.33

2023

Still early doors in the tournament but both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, along with Mohd Rizwan, make up the Top 3 right now