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Adam Gilchrist's 149 against Sri Lanka at the 2007 World Cup Final remains the highest individual score in a final; [14] his 72-ball century is also the fastest in a final. [14] The fastest 100 in any World Cup was scored by Glenn Maxwell in 40 balls against the Netherlands on 25 October 2023. He also scored the World Cup fastest 200 in the ...
Sehwag is the first Indian to score a triple century (300 or more runs), and has done so twice—309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004 and 319 against South Africa in Chennai in 2008. [10] The latter is the fastest triple century in Test cricket, the 300 coming up off just 278 balls, and is also the highest score with a strike rate over 100. [11]
[b] His 66-ball century against South Africa during the 2007 World Cup was the fastest by an Australian in ODIs at the time. [c] Hayden was the leading run-scorer in the tournament (658 runs) and scored three centuries. [15] [16]
His second century, 134 against Pakistan in 1996, was scored at a strike rate of 206.15 and was the fastest century in ODI cricket at the time. This record was later broken by Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi. [19] The 189 he made against India in 2000 is the sixth highest ODI score in a single innings. [20]
Scoring 149 runs from 104 deliveries, including eight sixes and thirteen fours, Gilchrist made the highest score and quickest century in the final of the World Cup. [13] Australia won every ODI match in which Gilchrist scored a century, and he retired with 16 to his name, scoring at a rate of more than one run per delivery in 13 of them.
Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting (pictured) holds several Cricket World Cup records. The Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), and is held once every four years.
Unlike his Test career, his ODI career was less illustrious scoring 3,092 runs at an average of 35.13. [13] Gavaskar's solitary century in ODIs came in the penultimate innings of his career—against New Zealand —during the 1987 Cricket World Cup where he scored 103 runs in 88 balls; the performance ensured India's victory, which earned him a ...
His highest ODI score of 159 was made against Ireland at the Manuka Oval, Canberra in 2015. [18] His 27 centuries in the format is a South African record. Amla has played 38 Twenty20 International (T20I) matches without scoring a century; [ 19 ] his highest score in the format is 97 not out. [ 3 ]