Records in World Cup 2023: The World Cup 2023 culminated with a massive anti-climax as the hosts, India, the only undefeated team in the tournament until the final, suffered a 6-wicket loss to Australia in front of over 90,000 fans at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and millions watching.
Talking about the tournament as a whole, one doesn’t need stats to reveal that it was a high-scoring tournament. But for the purpose of this piece, we will dive into detail about how the batters ran the show.
Records in World Cup 2023: ICC CWC’23
A total of 24,639 runs were put on the scoreboards throughout the World Cup 2023, of which 23,427 came from the bat; the rest were extras. This is the highest amount of runs scored in a World Cup edition, surpassing 23,531 runs (22,293 by the batsmen) in the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
A per the Records in World Cup 2023, 289 was the average first innings score in this tournament, 17 runs more than the average first innings total of the 2015 World Cup.
40 centuries were notched in the 2023 World Cup, two more than the 38 in the 2015 World Cup. The South African batters raised 9 hundreds, the most by a single team in any edition of the competition. Playing his last ODI tournament, opener Quinton de Kock slammed four hundreds, which is the joint second-most in a World Cup with Kumar Sangakkara’s tally of 4 in 2015, only one behind Rohit Sharma’s 5 centuries in 2019.
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The record for the fastest World Cup century was broken twice. Aiden Markram broke Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien’s 50-ball hundred from the 2011 World Cup with a 49-ball ton against Sri Lanka in Delhi. At the same venue, Glenn Maxwell smashed a 40-ball century against the Netherlands.
Coming to the sixes record, a total of 644 sixes were hit in the World Cup 2023, way ahead of the previous record of 463 sixes from the 2015 World Cup. 2239 fours is also a new record, breaking the previous record of 2170 fours in 2015.
As per the Records in World Cup 2023, India captain Rohit Sharma walloped 31 sixes, which is a new record, shredding Chris Gayle’s record of 26 sixes from the 2015 edition.
South Africa’s innings total of 428/5 vs Sri Lanka is the highest innings total in World Cup history, beating Australia’s 417/6 vs Afghanistan in 2015.
Australia and New Zealand produced a high-scoring thriller in Dharamsala. Chasing 399, New Zealand lost by only 4 runs. The aggregate of 771 runs in this game is the most in a single World Cup encounter.
As per the Cricket World Cup 2023 records, to conclude this, Virat Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 673 runs from the 2003 World Cup in South Africa to end with a whopping 765 runs at an average of 95. Kohli notched up nine 50-plus scores from 11 innings, which is the most any batsman has ever managed in a single World Cup.
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