England lifted their first World Cup after somehow scraping past New Zealand by the narrowest possible margin in the most intense of finals. As for the statistics, they feature in almost every chart, including most runs and wickets.
Interestingly, the top five in batting averages do not include Englishmen. Three low-scoring knockout matches led to both Williamson and Rohit dropping below Shakib.
Players | Teams | R | Ave | SR |
Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh | 606 | 86.57 | 96.0 |
Kane Williamson | New Zealand | 578 | 82.57 | 75.0 |
Rohit Sharma | India | 648 | 81.00 | 98.3 |
David Warner | Australia | 647 | 71.88 | 89.4 |
Babar Azam | Pakistan | 474 | 67.71 | 87.8 |
Maxwell finished at the top of the strike rates chart, but both Buttler and Roy made their way into the top four.
Players | Teams | R | Ave | SR |
Glenn Maxwell | Australia | 177 | 22.12 | 150.0 |
Jos Buttler | England | 312 | 34.67 | 122.8 |
Imad Wasim | Pakistan | 162 | 54.00 | 118.2 |
Jason Roy | England | 443 | 63.28 | 115.4 |
Hardik Pandya | India | 226 | 32.28 | 112.4 |
Morgan’s 17 sixes against Afghanistan kept him at top spot despite the fact that he managed only 5 more throughout the rest of the World Cup. Roy rose to fifth place.
Players | Teams | 6s | BF | B/6 |
Eoin Morgan | England | 22 | 334 | 15.2 |
Aaron Finch | Australia | 18 | 497 | 27.6 |
Rohit Sharma | India | 14 | 659 | 47.1 |
Chris Gayle | West Indies | 12 | 274 | 22.8 |
Jason Roy | England | 12 | 384 | 32.0 |
Bairstow caught up with Rohit to share the top of the four chart. Despite missing a few matches, Roy moved to 5th place.
Players | Teams | 4s | BF | B/4 |
Jonny Bairstow | England | 67 | 573 | 8.6 |
Rohit Sharma | India | 67 | 659 | 9.8 |
David Warner | Australia | 66 | 724 | 11.0 |
Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh | 60 | 631 | 10.5 |
Jason Roy | England | 51 | 384 | 7.5 |
Rohit finished with 5 hundreds, the most by anyone in a single edition of the World Cup.
Players | Teams | 100s |
Rohit Sharma | India | 5 |
David Warner | Australia | 3 |
Aaron Finch | Australia | 2 |
Joe Root | England | 2 |
Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh | 2 |
Kane Williamson | New Zealand | 2 |
Jonny Bairstow | England | 2 |
Shakib has scored the most fifties, followed by Rohit and Warner, but Roy, Root, and Stokes are all tied at 4th spot.
Players | Teams | 100s | 50s | 50+ |
Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh | 2 | 5 | 7 |
Rohit Sharma | India | 5 | 1 | 6 |
David Warner | Australia | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Aaron Finch | Australia | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Joe Root | England | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Jason Roy | England | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Virat Kohli | India | 0 | 5 | 5 |
Ben Stokes | England | 0 | 5 | 5 |
Archer has bowled the most dot balls in this World Cup. Boult and Ferguson finished at 2nd and 5th place respectively.
Players | Teams | D | B | B/D |
Jofra Archer | England | 372 | 606 | 1.63 |
Trent Boult | New Zealand | 351 | 594 | 1.69 |
Pat Cummins | Australia | 323 | 517 | 1.60 |
Mitchell Starc | Australia | 319 | 554 | 1.74 |
Lockie Ferguson | New Zealand | 301 | 502 | 1.67 |
Bumrah’s 9 maidens are the most in the tournament, but Archer (8) and Woakes (6) have been phenomenal as well.
Players | Teams | M | O | O/M |
Jasprit Bumrah | India | 9 | 84 | 9.33 |
Jofra Archer | England | 8 | 101 | 12.60 |
Chris Woakes | England | 6 | 85 | 14.17 |
Pat Cummins | Australia | 6 | 86.1 | 14.36 |
Chris Morris | South Africa | 5 | 63.4 | 12.93 |
Mohammad Amir | Pakistan | 5 | 73 | 14.60 |
Matt Henry | New Zealand | 5 | 80.2 | 16.07 |
Mitchell Starc | Australia | 5 | 92.2 | 18.47 |
The bowling averages list is headed by Shami and Afridi, two men who should have played more matches than they did.
Players | Teams | W | Ave | Econ |
Mohammed Shami | India | 14 | 13.78 | 5.48 |
Shaheen Shah Afridi | Pakistan | 16 | 14.62 | 4.96 |
Mitchell Starc | Australia | 27 | 18.59 | 5.43 |
Dwaine Pretorius | South Africa | 5 | 18.80 | 4.08 |
Jimmy Neesham | New Zealand | 15 | 19.46 | 5.35 |
The most economical bowlers are probably not the high-profile names one expected to be.
Players | Teams | W | Ave | Econ |
Kemar Roach | West Indies | 6 | 20.16 | 3.67 |
Ravindra Jadeja | India | 2 | 37.00 | 3.70 |
Dwaine Pretorius | South Africa | 5 | 18.80 | 4.08 |
Colin de Grandhomme | New Zealand | 6 | 35.33 | 4.15 |
Jasprit Bumrah | India | 18 | 20.61 | 4.41 |
Starc and Mustafizur finished with 2 five-wicket hauls each.
Players | Teams | 5WIs |
Mitchell Starc | Australia | 2 |
Mustafizur Rahman | Bangladesh | 2 |
Mohammad Amir | Pakistan | 1 |
Jimmy Neesham | New Zealand | 1 |
Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh | 1 |
Jason Behrendorff | Australia | 1 |
Mohammed Shami | India | 1 |
Shaheen Shah Afridi | Pakistan | 1 |
Starc also had most four-wicket hauls, followed by Shami.
Players | Teams | 5WIs | 4WIs | 4+ |
Mitchell Starc | Australia | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Mohammed Shami | India | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Mustafizur Rahman | Bangladesh | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Shaheen Shah Afridi | Pakistan | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Trent Boult | New Zealand | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Players | Batsmen | Teams | vs | Venue | Date |
Mohammed Shami | Mohammed Nabi Aftab Alam Mujeeb Ur Rahman | Ind | Afg | Rose Bowl | 22/6 |
Trent Boult | Usman Khawaja Mitchell Starc Jason Behrendorff | NZ | Aus | Lord’s | 29/6 |