World Cup Batting Records
| Most runs by a batsman in one world cup tournament. | ||||||||||
| Batsman (Country) | Runs | WC | Mts | Inns | Best | Srate | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s |
| Sachin Tendulkar (India) | 673 | 2003 | 11 | 11 | 152 | 89.25 | 1 | 6 | 75 | 4 |
| Mathew Hayden (Australia) | 659 | 2007 | 11 | 10 | 158 | 101.07 | 3 | 1 | 69 | 18 |
| Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) | 548 | 2007 | 11 | 11 | 115* | 85.09 | 1 | 4 | 40 | 10 |
| Ricky Ponting (Australia) | 539 | 2007 | 11 | 9 | 113 | 95.39 | 1 | 4 | 53 | 11 |
| Sachin Tendulkar (India) | 523 | 1996 | 7 | 7 | 137 | 87.16 | 2 | 3 | 57 | 7 |
| Scott Styris (New Zealand) | 499 | 2007 | 10 | 9 | 111* | 83.16 | 1 | 4 | 45 | 6 |
| Jacques Kallis (South Africa) | 485 | 2007 | 10 | 9 | 128* | 80.83 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 6 |
| Mark Waugh (Australia) | 484 | 1996 | 7 | 7 | 130 | 80.66 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 6 |
| Graham Gooch (England) | 471 | 1987 | 8 | 8 | 115 | 58.87 | 1 | 3 | 45 | 0 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) | 467 | 2007 | 11 | 11 | 115 | 46.70 | 2 | 2 | 47 | 14 |
| Sourav Ganguly (India) | 465 | 2003 | 11 | 11 | 112* | 58.12 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 15 |
| Rahul Dravid (India) | 461 | 1999 | 8 | 8 | 145 | 65.85 | 2 | 3 | 49 | 1 |
| Martin Crowe (New Zealand) | 456 | 1992 | 9 | 9 | 100* | 114.00 | 1 | 4 | 45 | 6 |
| Adam Gilchrist (Australia) | 453 | 2007 | 11 | 11 | 149 | 45.30 | 1 | 2 | 58 | 10 |
| Arvinda de Silva (Sri Lanka) | 448 | 1996 | 6 | 6 | 145 | 89.60 | 2 | 2 | 57 | 7 |
| Highest Individual scores by a batsman in one day World cups. | |||||||
| Batsman (Country) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Versus | Venue | Dt/Mon/Yr |
| Gary Kirsten (South Africa) | 188* | 159 | 13 | 4 | UAE | Rawalpindi | 16 Feb 1996 |
| Sourav Ganguly (India) | 183 | 158 | 17 | 7 | Sri Lanka | Taunton | 26 May 1999 |
| Vivian Richards (West Indies) | 181 | 125 | 16 | 7 | Sri Lanka | Karachi | 13 Oct 1987 |
| Kapil Dev (India) | 175* | 138 | 16 | 6 | Zimbabwe | Tunbridge | 18 Jun 1983 |
| Craig Wishart (Zimbabwe) | 172* | 151 | 18 | 3 | Namibia | Harare | 10 Feb 2003 |
| Glenn Turner (New Zealand) | 171* | 201 | 16 | 2 | East Africa | Edgbaston | 7 Jun 1975 |
| Andrew Hudson (South Africa) | 161 | 132 | 13 | 4 | Holland | Rawalpindi | 5 Mar 1996 |
| Imran Nazir (Pakistan) | 160 | 121 | 14 | 8 | Zimbabwe | Kingston | 21 Mar 2007 |
| Mathew Hayden (Australia) | 158 | 143 | 14 | 4 | West Indies | North Sound | 27 Mar 2007 |
| Sachin Tendulkar (India) | 152 | 151 | 18 | 0 | Namibia | Pieterzburg | 23 Feb 2003 |
| Adam Gilchrist (Australia) | 149 | 104 | 13 | 8 | Sri Lanka | Barbados | 28 Apr 2007 |
| AB de Villiers (South Africa) | 146 | 130 | 12 | 5 | West Indies | St George's | 10 Apr 2007 |
| Arvinda de Silva (Sri Lanka) | 145 | 115 | 14 | 5 | Kenya | Kandy | 6 Mar 1996 |
| Rahul Dravid (India) | 145 | 129 | 17 | 1 | Sri Lanka | Taunton | 26 May 1999 |
| Andrew Symonds (Australia) | 143* | 125 | 18 | 2 | Pakistan | Johannesburg | 11 Feb 2003 |
| Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) | 143 | 141 | 19 | 3 | New Zealand | Johannesburg | 16 Feb 2003 |
| David Haughton (Zimbabwe) | 142 | 137 | 13 | 6 | New Zealand | Hyderabad | 10 Oct 1987 |
| Scott Styris (New Zealand) | 141 | 125 | 3 | 6 | Sri Lanka | Bloemfontein | 10 Feb 2003 |
| Sachin Tendulkar (India) | 140* | 101 | 16 | 3 | Kenya | Bristol | 23 May 1999 |
| Ricky Ponting (Australia) | 140* | 121 | 4 | 8 | India | Johannesburg | 23 Mar 2003 |
| Vivian Richards (West Indies) | 138* | 157 | 11 | 3 | England | Lord's | 23 Jun 1979 |
