The top
ten scorers of Cricket World Cup 2015. Only one out of these 10 has a chance to
rise in numbers. You guessed it right. Martin Guptill has a chance on 29 March
to overtake Kumar Sangakara. Otherwise the list is pretty final.
Among
the top 10 scorers only Misbah-ul-Haq of Pakistan scored a lot of runs, without
scoring a century. What’s the big deal? He is the only cricketer, who scored
more than 5000 runs in One Day Internationals, without scoring a century.
The second
most interesting entry is Chris Gayle, who despite scoring a double century,
still trailed behind Misbah.
|
Sr. No.
|
Name
|
Country
|
Matches
|
Runs
|
Average
|
Highest
|
|
1.
|
Kumar Sangakkara
|
Sri Lanka
|
7
|
541
|
108.20
|
124
|
|
2.
|
Martin Guptill
|
New Zealand
|
8*
|
532
|
76.00
|
237*
|
|
3.
|
AB de Villiers
|
South Africa
|
8*
|
482
|
94.20
|
162*
|
|
4.
|
Brendan Taylor
|
Zimbabwe
|
6
|
433
|
72.16
|
138
|
|
5.
|
Tillakaratne Dilshan
|
Sri Lanka
|
7
|
395
|
65.83
|
161*
|
|
6.
|
Faf du Plessis
|
South Africa
|
8*
|
380
|
74.60
|
109
|
|
7.
|
Shikhar Dhawan
|
India
|
7*
|
367
|
52.42
|
137
|
|
8.
|
Mahmudullah
|
Bangladesh
|
6
|
365
|
73.00
|
128*
|
|
9.
|
Misbah-ul-Haq
|
Pakistan
|
7
|
350
|
50.00
|
76
|
|
10.
|
Chris Gayle
|
West Indies
|
6
|
340
|
56.66
|
217
|
The top
10 bowlers of the tournament include no surprises, except for Umesh Yadav. The
list is topped by Trent Boult and Mitchell Stark. But it’s not only them who
can improve ratings by the eve of 29 March. Daniel Vettori has a good chance of
jumping one slot up if he takes one wicket at least. Taking two or more he can
move Yadav out of the top 3.
Wahab
Riaz’s overall figures might not be so impressive, 16 wickets, but his bowling in
the third quarterfinal is the only thing that will be remembered for years to
come. He refreshed the memories of times, when international cricket knew real
fast bowlers, like Jeff Thompson, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Dennis Lillee
and many others. I am talking about times, when bowlers had the right to bowl.
They could test the batsman's resolve with good-length and short-pitched
bouncers. Now this is a thing of the past. In this World Cup, Wahab Riaz had to
pay a fine to be a real fast bowler. Probably the ICC officials were afraid of
Australia deporting them or sending them to the refugee concentration camps.
Because otherwise it was Mitchell Stark, who behaved badly, when he bowled a
couple of fast deliveries to a №9 batsman (Wahab Riaz) and then taunted him.
Why did they not fine Stark? Or probably I am too sensitive to discrimination,
because white New Zealanders like Billy Bowden had no problem lamenting Wahab
Riaz with maximum fine, but at the same time they did not see anything wrong
with Stark’s behaviour. Probably they were enraged by the fact that even if
they have the best pitches and best grounds, it is Pakistan which always
produced top-line fast bowlers and even today we have the best bowling attack.
And don’t forget the fastest ball ever in cricket history was bowled by a
Pakistani.
We were
deprived of the pleasure, that we could have, of watching such talented bowlers like
Brett Lee, because of stupid ICC regulations.
|
Sr. No.
|
Name
|
Country
|
Match No.
|
Wickets
|
Average
|
Economy
|
|
1.
|
Trent Boult
|
New Zealand
|
8
|
21
|
15.76
|
4.41
|
|
2.
|
Mitchell Starc
|
Australia
|
7
|
20
|
10.20
|
3.65
|
|
3.
|
Umesh Yadav
|
India
|
8
|
18
|
18.35
|
4.92
|
|
4.
|
Mohammed Shami
|
India
|
7
|
17
|
14.23
|
4.32
|
|
5.
|
Morne Morkel
|
South Africa
|
8
|
17
|
17.58
|
4.38
|
|
6.
|
Jerome Taylor
|
West Indies
|
7
|
17
|
19.29
|
5.70
|
|
7.
|
Wahab Riaz
|
Pakistan
|
7
|
16
|
23.00
|
5.56
|
|
8.
|
Daniel Vettori
|
New Zealand
|
8
|
16
|
18.80
|
3.98
|
|
9.
|
Josh Davey
|
Scotland
|
6
|
15
|
20.73
|
6.22
|
|
10.
|
Imran Tahir
|
South Africa
|
8
|
15
|
21.13
|
5.57
|
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