Cricket World Cup 2019: Leading run-scorers and batting stats

The Cricket World Cup in England didn’t quite live up to the billing of an endless string of batting-friendly pitches but there were still plenty of dominant batsmen on show.

Rohit Sharma dazzled with his simply incredible five centuries at the 2019 Cricket World Cup but India would fall in the semi-final. Sharma was pushed all the way in the runscorers charts by Australia’s David Warner. The Australian cut a determined figure in the tournament as he made his return to the international stage. Warner’s efforts fell short of getting Australia into yet another World Cup final.

For World Cup finalists England and New Zealand the run-scoring has been led by steady middle-order men in Joe Root and Kane Williamson.

South Africa‘s leading run-getter, Faf du Plessis, failed to crack the top ten. The ten leading runscorers have all scored more than 400 runs in the tournament, playing between 8 and 11 matches.

Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh and Babar Azam of Pakistan are the only top ten runscorers to come from nations who failed to make the semi-finals.

Note: Stats will be updated after the Cricket World Cup final to reflect any changes.

Cricket World Cup top ten runscorers

1 Rohit Sharma (India) – 648 runs
2 David Warner (Australia) – 647 runs
3 Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh) – 606 runs
4 Kane Williamson (New Zealand) – 578 runs
5 Joe Root (England) – 556 runs
6 Jonny Bairstow (England) – 532 runs
7 Aaron Finch (Australia) – 507 runs
8 Babar Azam (Pakistan) – 474 runs
9 Ben Stokes (England) – 468 runs
10 Jason Roy (England) – 443 runs

Cricket World Cup highest scores

1 David Warner (Australia) – 166 vs Bangladesh
2 Jason Roy (England) – 153 vs Bangladesh
3 Aaron Finch (Australia) – 153 vs Sri Lanka
4 Eoin Morgan (England) – 148 vs Afghanistan
5 Kane Williamson (New Zealand) – 148 vs West Indies
6 Rohit Sharma (India) – 140 vs Pakistan
7 Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh) – 124* vs West Indies
8 Rohit Sharma (India) – 122* vs South Africa
9 David Warner (Australia) – 122 vs South Africa
10 Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh) – 121 vs England

Best batting average

1 Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh) – 86.57
2 Kane Williamson (New Zealand) – 82.57
3 Rohit Sharma (India) – 81.00
4 Ravindra Jadeja (India) – 77.00
5 Samiullah Shinwari (Afghanistan) – 74.00
6 David Warner (Australia) – 71.88
7 Babar Azam (Pakistan) – 67.71
8 Ben Stokes (England) – 66.85
9 Faf du Plessis (South Africa) – 64.50
10 Jason Roy (England) – 62.38

Miscellaneous batting stats leaders

Fastest hundred – Eoin Morgan (England) – 57 balls
Fastest fifty – Alex Carey (Australia) – 25 balls
Best batting strike-rate – Glenn Maxwell (Australia) – 150.00
Most Hundreds – Rohit Sharma (India) – 5
Most fifties – Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh) and Virat Kohli (India) – 5