2015 Cricket World Cup statistics explained

This is a list of statistics for the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Each list contains the top-five records except for the partnership records.

Team statistics

Highest team totals

Team	Score	Against	Date
	417/6 (50 overs)
	411/4 (50 overs)
	408/5 (50 overs)
	393/6 (50 overs)
	376/9 (50 overs)
Last Updated: 21 March 2015^[1]

Largest winning margin

By runs

Team	Margin	Against	Date
	275 runs
	257 runs
	251 runs
	150 runs
	148 runs
Last Updated: 20 March 2015^[2] ^[3]

By wickets

Team	Margin	Overs Remaining	Against	Date
	9 wickets	32 overs
	9 wickets	31.1 overs
	9 wickets	2.4 overs
	9 wickets	6.5 overs (D/L)
	8 wickets	37.4 overs
Last Updated: 18 March 2015^[4]

By balls remaining

Team	Balls Remaining	Against	Date
	226 balls
	208 balls
	192 balls
	187 balls
	161 balls
Last Updated: 18 March 2015^[5]

Lowest team totals

This is a list of completed innings only, low totals in matches with reduced overs are omitted except when the team was all out. Successful run chases in the second innings are not counted.

Team	Score	Against	Date
	102 (31.3 overs)
	123 (33.2 overs)
	130 (25.4 overs)
	133 (37.2 overs)
	142 (37.3 overs)
Last Updated: 18 March 2015^[6]

Smallest winning margin

By runs

Team	Margin	Against	Date
	5 runs
	15 runs
	20 runs
	29 runs (D/L)
	62 runs
Last Updated: 7 March 2015^[7]

By wickets

Team	Margin	Overs Remaining	Against	Date
	1 wicket	0.3 overs
	1 wicket	26.5 overs
	2 wickets	0.4 overs
	3 wickets	1.1 overs
	3 wickets	25.1 overs
Last Updated: 13 March 2015

By balls remaining

Team	Balls Remaining	Against	Date
	1 ball (D/L)
	3 balls
	4 balls
	7 balls
	8 balls
Last Updated: 24 March 2015

Individual statistics

Batting

Most runs

Player			Runs
Martin Guptill	9	9	547	68.37	104.58	237*	1	2	59	16
Kumar Sangakkara	7	7	541	108.20	105.87	124	0	4	57	7
AB de Villiers	8	7	482	96.40	144.31	162*	3	1	43	21
Brendan Taylor	6	6	433	72.16	72.16	138	1	2	43	21
Shikhar Dhawan	8	8	412	51.50	91.75	137	1	2	88	9
Last updated: 08 July 2015^[8]

Highest scores

Player	Team	Against	High Score	Balls
Martin Guptill			237*	163	24	11	145.39
Chris Gayle			215	147	10	16	146.25
David Warner			178	133	19	5	133.83
AB de Villiers			162*	66	17	8	245.45
Tillakaratne Dilshan			161*	146	22	0	110.27
Last updated: 21 March 2015^[9] ^[10]

Most boundaries

Total Fours
2164
Player	Team	Fours
Martin Guptill		59
Kumar Sangakkara		57
		48
Tillakaratne Dilshan		46
Brendon McCullum		44
Last updated: 29 March 2015^[11] ^[12]

Total Sixes
463
Player	Team	Sixes
Chris Gayle		26
AB de Villiers		21
Brendon McCullum		17
Martin Guptill		16
Glenn Maxwell		14
Last updated: 29 March 2015^[13] ^[14]

Most ducks

Player	Team
Krishna Chandran		5	3
Mitchell Starc		3	2
Iain Wardlaw		4	2
Eoin Morgan		5	2
Afsar Zazai		6	2
Last updated: 29 March 2015^[15]

Bowling

Most wickets

Player	Team
Mitchell Starc		8	8	22	10.18	3.50	6/28	17.40
Trent Boult		9	9	22	16.86	4.36	5/27	23.10
Umesh Yadav		8	8	18	17.83	4.98	4/31	21.40
Mohammed Shami		7	7	17	17.29	4.81	4/35	21.50
Morné Morkel		8	8	17	17.58	4.38	3/34	24.00
Last updated: 29 March 2015^[16]

Best bowling figures

Player	Team	BF	Bowling figures: Wickets-Runs (Overs)	Against	Date
Tim Southee		7–33 (9)
Mitchell Starc		6–28 (9)
Trent Boult		5–27 (10)
Mitchell Marsh		5–33 (9)
Imran Tahir		5–45 (10)
Last updated: 20 March 2015^[17]

Most maidens

Player	Team
Trent Boult		9	14	16.86
Mohammed Shami		7	7	17.29
Tim Southee		9	7	31.46
Dale Steyn		8	7	31.45
Ravichandran Ashwin		8	6	25.38
Last updated: 29 March 2015^[18]

Most dot balls

Player	Team
Trent Boult		9	336
Tim Southee		9	288
Ravichandran Ashwin		8	279
Morne Morkel		8	270
Mitchell Starc		8	269
Last updated: 29 March 2015^[19]

Hat-tricks

Player	Team	Batsmen out	Against	Date
Steven Finn		Brad Haddin Glenn Maxwell Mitchell Johnson
JP Duminy		Angelo Mathews Nuwan Kulasekara Tharindu Kaushal
Last updated: 23 March 2015^[20] ^[21] ^[22]

Fielding

Most dismissals

This is a list of wicket-keepers with the most dismissals in the tournament.

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Dismissals	Caught	Stumped
Brad Haddin		8	8	16	16	0
		8	8	15	15	0
		7	7	13	13	0
		9	9	13	12	1
		6	6	10	9	1
Last Updated: 29 March 2015^[23] ^[24]

Most catches

This is a list of the fielders who took the most catches in the tournament.

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Catches
Rilee Rossouw		6	6	9
		8	8	8
		6	6	7
		8	8	7
		6	6	6
Last Updated: 26 March 2015^[25] ^[26]

Other statistics

Highest partnerships

The following tables are lists of the highest partnerships for the tournament.

Wicket	Runs	Team	Players	Against	Date
By wicket
1st	174		Rohit Sharma	Shikhar Dhawan
2nd	372		Chris Gayle	Marlon Samuels
3rd	143		Martin Guptill	Ross Taylor
4th	146		Aaron Finch	George Bailey
5th	256*		David Miller	JP Duminy
6th	154		Lendl Simmons	Darren Sammy
7th	107		Shaiman Anwar	Amjad Javed
	107		Amjad Javed	Nasir Aziz
8th	53*		Amjad Javed	Mohammad Naveed
9th	62		Majid Haq	Alasdair Evans
10th	45		Brad Haddin	Pat Cummins
By runs
2nd	372		Chris Gayle	Marlon Samuels
2nd	260		David Warner	Steve Smith
5th	256*		David Miller	JP Duminy
2nd	247		Hashim Amla	Faf du Plessis
2nd	212*		Lahiru Thirimanne	Kumar Sangakkara
2nd	210*		Tillakaratne Dilshan	Kumar Sangakkara
5th	196*		Suresh Raina	Mahendra Singh Dhoni
2nd	195		Tillakaratne Dilshan	Kumar Sangakkara
2nd	182		Aaron Finch	Steve Smith
1st	174		Rohit Sharma	Shikhar Dhawan
Last Updated: 26 March 2015^[27] ^[28]

See also

• 2011 Cricket World Cup statistics

External links

• Official 2015 World Cup site
• Cricket World Cup at icc-cricket.com

Notes and References

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