Leading run scorers in ICC World Cups (Part 2)
(Continued from part 1...Sachin Tendulkar)
World cups have been prolific for Sachin Tendulkar. Every performance of his on the biggest stage is rated highly. The little champion is the leading run scorer in the tournament. His significant numbers also suggest that he has been one of the greatest
match winners in the history of ODI cricket.
In five World cup appearances, Sachin has amassed significant numbers. In all, he has played 36 matches, gathering an amazing tally of 1796 runs at an excellent average of 57 with a best of 152. His tally of runs includes 4 centuries and a strike rate of
88. Also, he is highest run scorer in a single World Cup.
Moreover, in the 2003 World cup in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757, he piled up 673 runs in 11 matches.
Nobody can forget his performance against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wasim-Akram-c96292, Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar, scoring 98 runs off just 78 balls, changing the match in India’s
favour. India went on to win the match and Tendulkar was named the Man-of-the-match.
The run machine, by the end of his career will pile up a mountain of runs that it will need another Sachin to break all his records.
Ricky Ponting
There is quite a big debate about who is Australia’s best batsman after Don Bradman. Is it Ricky Ponting or Greg Chappell?
Well, he certainly is one the best that the country has ever produced, and one of the greatest that World has ever seen. Ricky is the most successful Australian batsman in both forms of the game.
Only Sachin Tendulkar has more runs and centuries than Ricky Ponting. Ponting has 69 international hundreds to his name, and almost 25,000 international runs to his credit.
For a start he is a nervous batsman, as he tends to shuffle across the stumps, and therefore is a candidate for leg before wicket. As his innings progresses, his feet move nicely and then he is a different batsman altogether.
He plays with authority on both sides of the wicket. Mainly, he is a strong off the back-foot so he plays most of his shots square of the wicket. His back-foot drive between the cover and point, and his pull-shot through midwicket are his signature shots.
Ponting is often termed as a big match player, a man for crucial situations. His ability to remain calm in pressure cooker situations has helped him to produce quality performances with the willow.
In World Cups, the master batsman is 2nd only to Tendulkar. In all, he has gathered 1537 runs in 39 appearances at an average of 48 with a best of 140. He along with Sachin is the leading century maker in World Cup tournaments with 4 centuries.
Ricky bludgeoned India’s bowling line-up in the 2003 World cup final at Johannesburg, by scoring an unbeaten 140 runs off 121 balls. Resultantly, he helped Australia to post a mammoth total of 360 runs, and the match was won by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in the first half
of the game.
Ponting remains the stand out performer among his current team’s best players.
Brain Lara
There was piece of paper in which it was written, “Sachin a genius and Lara the master”. If ever, there was a competitor to Sachin’s claim as the best batsman of this era, it was the great Brain Charles Lara. It has been an endless debate about which one
is the better of the two champions.
Lara is to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warwickshire-c862 is the highest first-class
score by a batsman.
The left hander, in start of his innings, had the tendency to fall across his stumps that is why he was susceptible to the out-swinger as he used to edge the ball to the slips.
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