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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 second most runs scored in a single World Cup history to date (this was the highest number of runs scored by a batsman in a World Cup, until Virat Kohli scored 765 runs in the 2023 edition of the tournament), 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

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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
  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
  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)
  • Second 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

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Highest team totals

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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

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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

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Most wickets in the tournament

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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

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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

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Most runs in the tournament

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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 second highest number of 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

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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

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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

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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

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Most catches in a match

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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

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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

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Most dismissals in a match

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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ 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).
  2. ^ a b Matches played.
  3. ^ Maiden overs.
  4. ^ 4WI is the act of a bowler taking 4 wickets or more during his allocated overs.
  5. ^ 5WI is the act of a bowler taking 4 wickets or more during his allocated overs.
  6. ^ The first ranking parameter is number of wickets taken followed by number of runs conceded.
  7. ^ Average runs conceded per over bowled.
  8. ^ Total number of runs scored in the tournament.
  9. ^ Top score by the batsman.
  10. ^ * denotes an unfinished innings – the bowling team did not dismiss the batsmen by the conclusion of the innings.
  11. ^ * denotes unfinished partnerships.
  12. ^ South Africa were set 230 to win under the Duckworth–Lewis method

See also

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References

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