2003 Cricket World Cup statistics

2003 Cricket World Cup statistics lists all the major statistics and records for the 2003 Cricket World Cup held in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya from 9 February to 24 March 2003.

Talha Jubair became the youngest player to participate in Cricket World Cup.[1] Sri Lanka's clinical demolition of Canada for 36 runs created a new World Cup record for the lowest innings score, a dubious distinction that was, at the time, the lowest score in ODI history. Records tumbled when defending champions Australia took on minnows Namibia, with Glenn McGrath claiming the World Cup's best bowling figures (7/15), a performance that helped Australia defeat Namibia by 256 runs. Team-mate Adam Gilchrist created a new wicket-keeping dismissal record in the same match, with 6. Against Namibia, Indian players Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly recorded the second highest partnership in World Cup cricket (244 runs). India and Australia clashed in a one-sided battle in the final, with Australia creating multiple records (highest World Cup final score, highest score by a captain in a World Cup final – Ricky Ponting, most sixes by a batsman – Ponting) in a match; with Australia winning by 125 runs. Tendulkar's 673 runs, the most runs scored in a single World Cup history to date, was the consolation for India as he won the 2003 Cricket World Cup Man of the Series award. The World Cup also saw fielding records in an innings (Mohammad Kaif) and tournament (Ponting). The World Cup broke the record for most sixes in the tournament (with 266), but this was easily surpassed in the 2007 edition (with 373).[2]

Records

Country	Versus	Venue	Date
Canada	Sri Lanka	Paarl	19-02-2003
Lowest innings total in any World Cup – 36, by Canada[3][4] Lowest innings total in any ODI – 36, by Canada (since beaten by Zimbabwe in 2003/4) Biggest Victory margin (By balls remaining) in World Cup history (50 over match)[n 1] – 272 balls[4][5]
New Zealand	West Indies	Port Elizabeth	13-02-2003
Seventh wicket partnership record for any World Cup – 98, by Ramnaresh Sarwan and Ridley Jacobs (West Indies)[6]
Australia	Namibia	Potchefstroom	27-02-2003
Best bowling analysis in any World Cup innings – 7/15, by Glenn McGrath (Australia)[7] Most runs off an over in any World Cup innings – 28, by Darren Lehmann[8] (Australia, since beaten by Herschelle Gibbs) Highest Victory Margin (By runs) in World Cup – 256 runs, by Australia[5] (since bettered by India against Bermuda in 2007 Cricket World Cup) Most wicket-keeper dismissals in any World Cup innings – 6, Adam Gilchrist (Australia)[9]
India	Sri Lanka	Johannesburg	10-03-2003
Most catches in an innings by a fielder in World Cup – Mohammad Kaif[10]
Australia	India	Johannesburg	23-03-2003
Highest score by a team in World Cup final – Australia[11] Highest score by an individual in World Cup final – Ricky Ponting[11] (since bettered by Adam Gilchrist in the finals against Sri Lanka in the 2007 Cricket World Cup) Highest score by a captain in World Cup final – Ricky Ponting[11] Most sixes in a single World Cup innings – 8, by Ricky Ponting (Australia, since equalled by Imran Nazir and Adam Gilchrist) Most runs in a single World Cup – 673, by Sachin Tendulkar (India)[12] Most wicketkeeping dismissals in a single World Cup – 21, by Adam Gilchrist (Australia)[13] Most fielder catches in a single World Cup – 11, by Ricky Ponting (Australia)[14]

Team totals

Highest team totals

The highest score of the 2003 Cricket World Cup came in the finals when Australia scored 359 runs against India in 50 overs. This represents the highest score made in the finals of Cricket World Cup.[11]

Note: Only scores of 310 or higher are listed.

Score (Overs)	Country	Versus	Venue	Date
359–2 (50)	Australia	India	Johannesburg	23-03-2003
340–2 (50)	Zimbabwe	Namibia	Harare	10-02-2003
319–5 (50)	Australia	Sri Lanka	Centurion	07-03-2003
314–4 (50)	Netherlands	Namibia	Bloemfontein	03-03-2003
311–2 (50)	India	Namibia	Pietermaritzburg	23-02-2003
Source: CricketArchive.com Archived 27 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine

Lowest team totals

Canada were bowled out for the lowest ever total in World Cup history against Sri Lanka;[4] which was also, at the time, the lowest ever total in ODI history.

Note: Only scores of 100 or lower are listed.

Score (Overs)	Country	Versus	Venue	Date
36 (18.4)	Canada	Sri Lanka	Paarl	19-02-2003
45 (14)	Namibia	Australia	Potchefstroom	27-02-2003
84 (17.4)	Namibia	Pakistan	Kimberley	16-02-2003
Source: CricketArchive.com Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine

Bowling

Most wickets in the tournament

Vaas's haul of 23 wickets in the tournament was, at the time, the record in World Cup history. His record was equalled or bettered by three bowlers in the 2007 edition of the World Cup (Glenn McGrath, Muttiah Muralitharan and Shaun Tait).

Note: Only top 10 players shown. Sorted by wickets then bowling average.

Player	Team	M[n 2]	Overs	Runs	Wkts	Mdns[n 3]	Avg	4WI[n 4]	5WI[n 5]	BBI[n 6]	Econ[n 7]	S/R
WPUJC Vaas	Sri Lanka	10	88	331	23	14	14.39	1	1	6/25	3.76	22.9
B Lee	Australia	10	83.1	394	22	9	17.90	0	1	5/42	4.73	22.6
GD McGrath	Australia	11	87	310	21	18	14.76	0	1	7/15	3.56	24.8
Z Khan	India	11	88.2	374	18	5	20.77	1	0	4/42	4.23	29.4
SE Bond	New Zealand	8	78	305	17	12	17.94	0	1	6/23	3.91	27.5
M Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	10	87.4	319	17	7	18.76	1	0	4/28	3.63	30.9
AJ Bichel	Australia	8	57	197	16	7	12.31	0	1	7/20	3.45	21.3
VC Drakes	West Indies	6	51.5	208	16	7	13.00	0	2	5/33	4.01	19.4
J Srinath	India	11	91.1	369	16	4	23.06	2	0	4/30	4.04	34.1
A Nehra	India	9	69.1	289	15	9	19.26	1	1	6/23	4.17	27.6
Source: Cricinfo.com

Best bowling

Note: Only top ten performances listed.

Bowling figures Wickets-Runs (Overs)	Bowler	Country	Versus	Venue	Date
7-15 (7)	GD McGrath	Australia	Namibia	Potchefstroom	27-02-2003
7–20 (10)	AJ Bichel	Australia	England	Port Elizabeth	02-03-2003
6–23 (10)	A Nehra	India	England	Durban	26-02-2003
6–23 (10)	SE Bond	New Zealand	Australia	Port Elizabeth	11-03-2003
6–25 (9.1)	WPUJC Vaas	Sri Lanka	Bangladesh	Pietermaritzburg	14-02-2003
5–24 (10)	CO Obuya	Kenya	Sri Lanka	Nairobi (Gymkhana)	24-02-2003
5–27 (9)	A Codrington	Canada	Bangladesh	Durban	11-02-2003
5–28 (9)	Wasim Akram	Pakistan	Namibia	Kimberley	16-02-2003
5–33 (10)	VC Drakes	West Indies	Kenya	Kimberley	04-03-2003
5–42 (9.1)	B Lee	Australia	New Zealand	Port Elizabeth	11-03-2003
Source: Cricinfo.com

Batting

Most runs in the tournament

The 2003 Cricket World Cup had four cricketers scoring over 400 runs in the tournament (two Indians and two Australians), a record that has been bettered when ten cricketers scored more than 400 runs in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Sachin's 673 runs in the 2003 Cricket World Cup is the current record for most runs scored in a single edition in World Cup history.[12]

Note: Only top 10 players shown. Sorted by total.

Player	Team	M[n 2]	I	NO	Total[n 8]	Avg	50s	100s	Best[n 9]	S/R
Sachin Tendulkar	India	11	11	0	673	61.18	6	1	152	89.25
SC Ganguly	India	11	11	3	465	58.12	0	3	112*	82.30
RT Ponting	Australia	11	10	2	415	51.87	1	2	140*	87.92
AC Gilchrist	Australia	10	10	0	408	40.80	4	0	99	105.15
HH Gibbs	South Africa	6	6	2	384	96.00	2	1	143	100.78
MS Atapattu	Sri Lanka	10	10	3	382	54.57	1	2	124	84.51
A Flower	Zimbabwe	8	7	0	332	47.42	3	0	71	72.33
ML Hayden	Australia	11	11	1	328	32.80	1	0	88	80.00
A Symonds	Australia	9	5	3	326	163.00	2	1	143*	90.55
DR Martyn	Australia	10	8	3	323	64.60	4	0	88*	81.77
Source: Cricinfo.com

Highest individual scores

Twenty one individual centuries were scored in the 2003 Cricket World Cup, the highest across all editions.[15]

Note: The top ten scores are listed below.

Runs[n 10]	Balls	Batsman	Country	Versus	Venue	Date	Strike rate
172*	151	CB Wishart	Zimbabwe	Namibia	Harare	10-02-2003	113.91
152	151	S Tendulkar	India	Namibia	Pietermaritzburg	23-02-2003	100.66
143*	125	A Symonds	Australia	Pakistan	Johannesburg	11-02-2003	114.40
143	141	HH Gibbs	South Africa	New Zealand	Johannesburg	16-02-2003	101.42
141	125	SB Styris	New Zealand	Sri Lanka	Bloemfontein	10-02-2003	112.80
140*	121	RT Ponting	Australia	India	Johannesburg	23-03-2003	115.70
134*	132	SP Fleming	New Zealand	South Africa	Johannesburg	16-02-2003	101.52
134*	129	KJJ van Noortwijk	Netherlands	Namibia	Bloemfontein	03-03-2003	103.88
124	129	MS Atapattu	Sri Lanka	South Africa	Durban	03-03-2003	96.12
121	142	JF Kloppenburg	Netherlands	Namibia	Bloemfontein	03-03-2003	85.21
Source: Cricinfo.com

Highest partnerships of the tournament

There were 25 century partnerships in the tournament, in comparison to 28 century partnerships in the 1999 Cricket World Cup.[16] The top ten partnerships have been listed below. The 244 run partnership between Ganguly and Tendulkar is currently the second highest partnership in World Cup history.[17]

Runs	Wicket	Partnerships	Country	Versus	Venue	Date
244	2nd	SC Ganguly/Sachin Tendulkar	India	Namibia	Pietermaritzburg	23-02-2003
234*	3rd	DR Martyn/RT Ponting	Australia	India	Johannesburg	23-03-2003
228	2nd	JF Kloppenburg/KJJ van Noortwijk	Netherlands	Namibia	Bloemfontein	03-03-2003
170	2nd	ST Jayasuriya/HP Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	Bloemfontein	10-02-2003
166*	3rd	GW Flower/CB Wishart	Zimbabwe	Namibia	Harare	10-02-2003
153	1st	V Sehwag/SR Tendulkar	India	Sri Lanka	Johannesburg	10-03-2003
152	4th	MS Atapattu/PA de Silva	Sri Lanka	South Africa	Durban	03-03-2003
142*	1st	HH Gibbs/G Kirsten	South Africa	Kenya	Potchefstroom	12-02-2003
140*	2nd	NJ Astle/SP Fleming	New Zealand	South Africa	Johannesburg	16-02-2003
129*	4th	R Dravid/M Kaif	India	New Zealand	Centurion	14-03-2003
Source: Cricinfo.com

Highest partnerships for each wicket

Wicket	Runs[n 11]	Partnerships	Country	Versus	Venue	Date
1st	153	SR Tendulkar/V Sehwag	India	Sri Lanka	Johannesburg	10-03-2003
2nd	244	SR Tendulkar/SC Ganguly	India	Namibia	Pietermaritzburg	23-02-2003
3rd	234*	RT Ponting/DR Martyn	Australia	India	Johannesburg	23-03-2003
4th	152	MS Atapattu/PA de Silva	Sri Lanka	South Africa	Durban	03-03-2003
5th	118*	SC Ganguly/Yuvraj Singh	India	Kenya	Cape Town	07-03-2003
6th	90	AJ Stewart/A Flintoff	England	Australia	Port Elizabeth	02-03-2003
7th	98	RR Sarwan/RD Jacobs	West Indies	New Zealand	Port Elizabeth	13-02-2003
8th	97	MG Bevan/AJ Bichel	Australia	New Zealand	Port Elizabeth	11-03-2003
9th	73*	MG Bevan/AJ Bichel	Australia	England	Port Elizabeth	02-03-2003
10th	54	Saqlain Mushtaq/Shoaib Akhtar	Pakistan	England	Cape Town	22-02-2003
Source: cricketarchive.com

Fielding

Most catches in a match

Catches	Player	Country	Versus	Venue	Date
4	M Kaif	India	Sri Lanka	Johannesburg	10-03-2003
3	V Sehwag	India	Netherlands	Paarl	12-02-2003
	LJ Burger	Namibia	England	Port Elizabeth	19-02-2003
	JP Maher	Australia	Netherlands	Potchefstroom	20-02-2003
	HH Dippenaar	South Africa	Bangladesh	Bloemfontein	22-02-2003
	D Mongia	India	Namibia	Pietermaritzburg	23-02-2003
	V Sehwag	India	England	Durban	26-02-2003
	AF Giles	England	Australia	Port Elizabeth	02-03-2003
Source: Cricinfo.com

Most catches in the tournament

Note: Only lists players with 6 catches or more.

Catches	Player	Team	Matches
11	Ricky Ponting	Australia	11
8	Brett Lee	Australia	10
	Virender Sehwag	India	11
	Dinesh Mongia	India	11
6	Louis Burger	Namibia	6
	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka	10
	Zaheer Khan	India	11
Source: Cricinfo.com

Wicket-keeping

Most dismissals in a match

Note: only top five performances listed (sorted by dismissals then date).

Dismissals	Player	Country	Versus	Venue	Date
6 (6c)	AC Gilchrist	Australia	Namibia	Potchefstroom	27-02-2003
4 (3c+1st)	KC Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	Bloemfontein	10-02-2003
4 (2c+2st)	KO Otieno	Kenya	Bangladesh	Johannesburg	01-03-2003
4 (3c+1st)	KO Otieno	Kenya	Zimbabwe	Bloemfontein	12-03-2003
4 (3c+1st)	KC Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	Australia	Port Elizabeth	18-03-2003
Source: Cricinfo.com

Most dismissals in the tournament

Note: Only top 10 players shown.

Dismissals (stumpings)	Player	Team	Matches
21	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	10
17 (2)	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	10
16 (1)	Rahul Dravid	India	11
12 (4)	Kennedy Otieno	Kenya	9
11	Mark Boucher	South Africa	6
10 (2)	Ashish Bagai	Canada	6
9	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	7
8 (1)	Rashid Latif	Pakistan	6
8 (1)	Ridley Jacobs	West Indies	6
7 (1)	Alec Stewart	England	5
Source: Cricinfo.com

Tied matches

After the tied semifinal match in the 1999 Cricket World cup that eliminated them[18] South Africa were held to another tie when they scored 229 in 45 overs, needing 230 to win by the Duckworth–Lewis method, against Sri Lanka.[19] South Africa needed a win to progress to the "Super-6" stage, but were ultimately eliminated from the tournament.[20]

Match	Scores	Venue	Date
South Africa vs Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka 268–9 (50 overs), South Africa 229/6 (45 overs)[n 12]	Durban	03-03-2003

Notes

The first three World Cup tournaments in 1975, 1979 and 1983 featured matches with each innings consisting of 60 overs (360 balls). In the subsequent tournaments – since 1987, each innings consists of a maximum of 50 overs (300 balls). The record for the largest victory margin is 277 balls by England against Kenya in the 1979 Cricket World Cup, but the same was achieved in 60 over match. England took 13.5 overs (83 balls) to overhaul the Canadian score but Sri Lanka took just 4.4 overs (28 balls).
Matches played.
Maiden overs.
4WI is the act of a bowler taking 4 wickets or more during his allocated overs.
5WI is the act of a bowler taking 4 wickets or more during his allocated overs.
The first ranking parameter is number of wickets taken followed by number of runs conceded.
Average runs conceded per over bowled.
Total number of runs scored in the tournament.
Top score by the batsman.
- denotes an unfinished innings – the bowling team did not dismiss the batsmen by the conclusion of the innings.
- denotes unfinished partnerships.
South Africa were set 230 to win under the Duckworth–Lewis method

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[5] The first three World Cup tournaments in 1975, 1979 and 1983 featured matches with each innings consisting of 60 overs (360 balls). In the subsequent tournaments – since 1987, each innings consists of a maximum of 50 overs (300 balls). The record for the largest victory margin is 277 balls by England against Kenya in the 1979 Cricket World Cup, but the same was achieved in 60 over match. England took 13.5 overs (83 balls) to overhaul the Canadian score but Sri Lanka took just 4.4 overs (28 balls).

[Matches-16] Matches played.

[17] Maiden overs.

[18] 4WI is the act of a bowler taking 4 wickets or more during his allocated overs.

[19] 5WI is the act of a bowler taking 4 wickets or more during his allocated overs.

[20] The first ranking parameter is number of wickets taken followed by number of runs conceded.

[21] Average runs conceded per over bowled.

[22] Total number of runs scored in the tournament.

[23] Top score by the batsman.

[25] tes an unfinished innings – the bowling team did not dismiss the batsmen by the conclusion of the innings.

[11] tes an unfinished innings – the bowling team did not dismiss the batsmen by the conclusion of the innings.

[28] tes unfinished partnerships.

[13] tes unfinished partnerships.

[32] South Africa were set 230 to win under the Duckworth–Lewis method

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