Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for most runs in a single edition of a World Cup, with 673 runs at an average of 61 in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, including one of the best World Cup knocks of all time, 98 (75) against Pakistan. Having featured in 6 World Cups from 1992 to 2011, Tendulkar also holds the record as the highest scorer in the history of the ODI World Cup with 2278 runs at an average of 56.

Swashbuckling opener Matthew Hayden scored 659 runs in the 2007 World Cup in West Indies. The lanky left-hander averaged 73 in the tournament, notching up 3 centuries and a fifty, on his way to helping Australia to their 4th ODI World Cup title

Rohit Sharma had his best ever ICC tournament in the 2019 World Cup in England where he amassed 648 runs in 9 games at an average of a whopping 81. Rohit raised 5 hundreds in the tournament, including against Pakistan and South Africa. However, Sharma failed in the semi-final against New Zealand and India suffered another heartbreak.

Returning from a year-long ban for ball tampering in 2018, Australia opener David Warner made a fiery comeback in the 2019 World Cup in England. With the help of big hundreds vs Pakistan, South Africa, and Bangladesh, Warner aggregated 647 runs in the tournament at an average of 71, though Australia lost in the semi-final.

The 2019 World Cup in England was a high-scoring one, and with no surprise, it is arguably Bangladesh's greatest cricketer Shakib Al Hasan who stepped up at the right time with 606 runs in the tournament at a massive average of 86 with 2 hundreds and 5 fifties to his name