World Cup 2023: Most runs, most wickets, highest score and more stats

The 2023 ODI World Cup drew to a close on Sunday with Australia clinching a record sixth title, with a six-wicket win over India. Travis Head emerged as the Player of the Match in the final with a century to steer the Aussies to a comfortable victory.

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For India, it continued the trophy drought in ICC tournaments with their last big-ticket win coming at the 2013 Champions Trophy. Since then, India have been unable to lift any of Champions Trophy, ODI World Cup, T20 World Cup or World Test Championships.

With the tournament coming to an end in Ahmedabad, we take a look at the must-know stats from the 2023 World Cup:

Most runs – Virat Kohli (765 runs)

Highest score – Glenn Maxwell (201* vs Afghanistan)

Best batting average – Virat Kohli (95.62)

Best batting strike rate (at least five innings) – Glenn Maxwell (150.37)

Most fours – Virat Kohli (68)

Most fours in an innings – Glenn Maxwell (21 vs Afghanistan)

Most sixes – Rohit Sharma (31)

Most sixes in an innings – Fakhar Zaman (11 vs New Zealand)

Most fifties – Virat Kohli (6)

Most hundreds – Quinton de Kock (4)

Fastest hundred – Glenn Maxwell (40 balls)

Most wickets – Mohammad Shami (24)

Best bowling figures – Mohammad Shami (7/57 vs New Zealand)

Best bowling average (among bowlers with at least 10 overs) – Mohammad Shami (10.70)

Best bowling strike rate (at least 10 overs) – Mohammad Shami (12.20)

Best bowling strike rate – Adam Zampa (4.50)

Best bowling economy – Kuldeep Yadav (1.35)

Most maidens – Jasprit Bumrah (9)

Most dot balls – Jasprit Bumrah (372)

Highest innings score – South Africa 428/5 vs Sri Lanka

Lowest innings score – 55 (Sri Lanka vs India)

Best win percentage – India (90.9%)

Most runs scored in a match – 771 (Australia vs New Zealand)

Largest victory by wickets – New Zealand beat England by 9 wickets

Largest victory by runs – Australia beat Netherlands by 309 runs

# Three totals in excess of 400 were recorded in this World Cup. Apart from South Africa’s highest in the tournament, India made the second-highest 410/4 against the Netherlands and New Zealand piled up 401/6 against Pakistan both at Bengaluru

# Rohit Sharma surpassed Chris Gayle (49) to have hit most sixes in all World Cup editions. Rohit finished with an overall 54 sixes, of which 31 came in the 2023 edition

# Pakistan recorded the highest successful chase (345) for any team in World Cup history, during their league stage contest against Sri Lanka

# The Netherlands’ Bas de Leede conceded 115 runs against Australia, which is the costliest spell for any bowler not just in World Cups but also ODI history