Top 5 batsmen with most centuries in ICC Cricket World Cup history

The 13th edition of International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 is just a few weeks away. The excitement for the prestigious tournament is already building up. The recent Asia Cup 2023 saw the best Asian teams compete against one another to check their performances before the big event.

World Cup 2023 is scheduled to be played from October 5th to November 19th, 2023. And India will be hosting the tournament for the fourth time. India have previously hosted three Cricket World Cups along with other countries. But this edition will be hosted only by India.

So let the world cup fever grab you with some interesting statistics. Let’s check who has scored the most centuries in World Cup history so far.

Here are the top 5 batsmen with most centuries in ICC Cricket World Cup history:

Australian opener David Warner is considered one of the most destructive openers of all formats. He has scored four centuries at a strike rate of 98.12 in Cricket World Cup history. He scored his highest score of 178 in the 2015 World Cup against Afghanistan. He made his World Cup debut in 2015 and will be playing his 3rd World Cup in 2023.

The former Aussie captain Ricky Ponting has won the World Cup for Australia in two consecutive years, in 2003 and 2007. He is the most successful captain of Australian team. Punter, fondly nicknamed by his teammates, has played 46 matches, bashed five centuries, and scored 1743 runs at an average of 45.86 in World Cup.

The former Sri Lankan skipper, Kumar Sangakkara, is one of the greatest batsmen and most successful wicket-keepers in the history of cricket. Sangakkara was added to ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2021. He is the third-highest run-scorer in World Cup. The Lankan has scored five hundred in 37 matches and accumulated 1532 runs at a dashing average of 56.74.

Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has registered a list of records under his name. He is the highest run-scorer in the World Cup. Sachin played 45 matches until his last World Cup appearance in 2011 and scored 2278 runs, including six centuries in World Cup. He also holds the record for scoring the most fifties in World Cup history (15).

34-years-old Indian captain Rohit Sharma has already registered six centuries and is the only batter to score five centuries in a single edition of Cricket World Cup. Not only in ICC events, he is also the five-times trophy-winning captain of Mumbai Indians, one of the franchises of Indian Premier League’s (IPL). He has not only won matches for his team but has also added numerous records to his name. Rohit is the only batsman in cricket history who has scored three double centuries.

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