1999 Cricket World Cup statistics

This is a list of statistics for the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

Team statistics edit

Highest team totals edit

The following table lists the ten highest team scores during this tournament.

Team Total Opponent Ground
  India 373/6   Sri Lanka County Ground, Taunton, England
  India 329/2   Kenya County Ground, Bristol, England
  Australia 303/4   Zimbabwe Lord's, England
  South Africa 287/5   New Zealand Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
  Australia 282/6   India Kennington Oval, London, England
  Pakistan 275/8   Australia Headingley, Leeds, England
  Sri Lanka 275/8   Kenya County Ground, Southampton, England
  Australia 272/5   South Africa Headingley, Leeds, England
  Pakistan 271/9   Zimbabwe Kennington Oval, London, England
  South Africa 271/7   Australia Headingley, Leeds, England

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Largest winning margin edit

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By runs edit

Team Margin Opponent Ground Date
  India 157 runs   Sri Lanka County Ground, Taunton, England 26 May 1999
  Pakistan 148 runs   Zimbabwe Kennington Oval, London, England 11 Jun 1999
  South Africa 122 runs   England Kennington Oval, London, England 22 May 1999
  Pakistan 94 runs   Scotland Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street, England 20 May 1999
  India 94 runs   Kenya County Ground, Bristol, England 23 May 1999
Source: Cricinfo

By wickets edit

Team Margin Overs Remaining Opponent Ground Date
  England 9 wickets 11.0   Kenya St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, England 18 May 1999
  Pakistan 9 wickets 2.3   New Zealand Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England 16 Jun 1999
  England 8 wickets 3.1   Sri Lanka Lord's, England 14 May 1999
  West Indies 8 wickets 39.5   Scotland Grace Road, Leicester, England 27 May 1999
  Australia 8 wickets 29.5   Pakistan Lord's, England 20 Jun 1999
Source: Cricinfo

By balls remaining edit

Team Margin Opponent Ground Date
  West Indies 239 balls   Scotland Grace Road, Leicester, England 27 May 1999
  New Zealand 193 balls   Scotland The Grange Club, Edinburgh, Scotland 31 May 1999
  Australia 181 balls   Bangladesh Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street, England 27 May 1999
  Australia 179 balls   Pakistan Lord's, England 20 Jun 1999
  New Zealand 102 balls   Bangladesh County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford, England 17 May 1999

Lowest team totals edit

This is a list of completed innings only, low totals in matches with reduced overs are omitted except when the team was all out. Successful run chases in the second innings are not counted.

Team Score Opponent Ground Date
  Scotland 68 (31.3 overs)   West Indies Grace Road, Leicester, England 27 May 1999
  England 103 (41 overs)   South Africa Kennington Oval, London, England 22 May 1999
  Sri Lanka 110 (35.2 overs)   South Africa County Cricket Ground, Northampton, England 19 May 1999
  West Indies 110 (46.4 overs)   Australia Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England 30 May 1999
  Bangladesh 116 (37.4 overs)   New Zealand County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford, England 17 May 1999

Smallest winning margin edit

By runs edit

Team Margin Opponent Ground Date
  Zimbabwe 3 runs   India Grace Road, Leicester, England 19 May 1999
  Pakistan 10 runs   Australia Headingley, Leeds, England 23 May 1999
  Bangladesh 22 runs   Scotland The Grange Club, Edinburgh, Scotland 24 May 1999
  Pakistan 27 runs   West Indies County Ground, Bristol, England 16 May 1999
  Australia 44 runs   Zimbabwe Lord's, England 09 Jun 1999
Source: Cricinfo

By wickets edit

Team Margin Overs Remaining Opponent Ground Date
  South Africa 3 wickets 1.0   Pakistan Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England 05 Jun 1999
  South Africa 4 wickets 2.4   India County Cricket Ground, Hove, England 15 May 1999
  Sri Lanka 4 wickets 4.0   Zimbabwe New Road, Worcester, England 22 May 1999
  Australia 5 wickets 0.2   South Africa Headingley, Leeds, England 13 Jun 1999
  New Zealand 5 wickets 1.4   India Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England 12 Jun 1999
Source: Cricinfo

By balls remaining edit

Team Margin Opponent Ground Date
  Australia 2 balls   South Africa Headingley, Leeds, England 13 Jun 1999
  South Africa 6 balls   Pakistan Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England 05 Jun 1999
  New Zealand 10 balls   India Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England 12 Jun 1999
  Pakistan 15 balls   New Zealand Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England 16 Jun 1999
  South Africa 16 balls   India County Cricket Ground, Hove, England 15 May 1999
Source: Cricinfo

Individual statistics edit

Batting statistics edit

Most runs edit

The top ten highest run scorers (total runs) in the tournament are included in this table.

Players Team Runs Matches Inns Avg S/R HS 100s 50s 4s 6s
Rahul Dravid   India 461 8 8 65.85 85.52 145 2 3 49 1
Steve Waugh   Australia 398 10 8 79.60 77.73 120* 1 2 35 6
Sourav Ganguly   India 379 7 7 54.14 81.15 183 1 1 39 8
Mark Waugh   Australia 375 10 10 41.66 76.21 104 1 2 39 1
Saeed Anwar   Pakistan 368 10 10 40.88 72.01 113* 2 0 42 0
Neil Johnson   Zimbabwe 367 8 8 52.42 73.99 132* 1 3 43 4
Ricky Ponting   Australia 354 10 10 39.33 66.54 69 0 1 32 5
Herschelle Gibbs   South Africa 341 9 9 37.88 73.01 101 1 2 34 4
Roger Twose   New Zealand 318 9 9 79.50 74.64 80* 0 3 29 4
Jacques Kallis   South Africa 312 8 8 52.00 66.38 96 0 4 18 4

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Highest scores edit

This table contains the top ten highest scores of the tournament made by a batsman in a single innings.

Player Team Score Balls 4s 6s Opponent Ground
Sourav Ganguly   India 183 158 17 7   Sri Lanka County Ground, Taunton, England
Rahul Dravid   India 145 129 17 1   Sri Lanka County Ground, Taunton, England
Sachin Tendulkar   India 140* 101 16 3   Kenya County Ground, Bristol, England
Neil Johnson   Zimbabwe 132* 144 14 2   Australia Lord's, England
Steve Waugh   Australia 120* 110 10 2   South Africa Headingley, Leeds, England
Saeed Anwar   Pakistan 113* 148 9 0   New Zealand Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England
Rahul Dravid   India 104* 109 10 0   Kenya County Ground, Bristol, England
Mark Waugh   Australia 104 120 13 0   Zimbabwe Lord's, England
Saeed Anwar   Pakistan 103 144 11 0   Zimbabwe Kennington Oval, London, England
Herschelle Gibbs   South Africa 101 134 10 1   Australia Headingley, Leeds, England

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Most boundaries edit

Total Fours Total Sixes
Player Team No. of Fours Player Team No. of Sixes
Rahul Dravid   India 49 Lance Klusener   South Africa 10
Neil Johnson   Zimbabwe 43 Sourav Ganguly   India 8
Saeed Anwar   Pakistan 42 Moin Khan   Pakistan 6
Sourav Ganguly   India 39 Thomas Odoyo   Kenya 6
Mark Waugh   Australia 39 Wasim Akram   Pakistan 6
Source: Cricinfo Source: Cricinfo

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Bowling statistics edit

Most wickets edit

The following table contains the ten leading wicket-takers of the tournament.

Player Team Wkts Mts Ave S/R Econ BBI
Geoff Allott   New Zealand 20 9 16.25 26.3 3.70 4/37
Shane Warne   Australia 20 10 18.05 28.3 3.82 4/29
Glenn McGrath   Australia 18 10 20.38 31.8 3.83 5/14
Lance Klusener   South Africa 17 9 20.58 26.7 4.61 5/21
Saqlain Mushtaq   Pakistan 17 10 22.29 29.5 4.52 5/35
Allan Donald   South Africa 16 9 20.31 30.7 3.96 4/17
Shoaib Akhtar   Pakistan 16 10 24.43 30.3 4.83 3/11
Wasim Akram   Pakistan 15 10 22.80 36.2 3.77 4/40
Damien Fleming   Australia 14 10 25.85 37.7 4.11 3/57
Abdul Razzaq   Pakistan 13 9 23.23 35.5 3.92 3/25

Best bowling figures edit

This table lists the top ten players with the best bowling figures in the tournament.

Player Team Overs Figures Opponent Ground
Glenn McGrath   Australia 8.4 5/14   West Indies Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England
Lance Klusener   South Africa 8.3 5/21   Kenya VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Venkatesh Prasad   India 9.3 5/27   Pakistan Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England
Robin Singh   India 9.3 5/31   Sri Lanka County Ground, Taunton, England
Saqlain Mushtaq   Pakistan 10.0 5/35   Bangladesh County Cricket Ground, Northampton, England
Shaun Pollock   South Africa 9.2 5/36   Australia Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
Chris Harris   New Zealand 3.1 4/7   Scotland The Grange Club, Edinburgh, Scotland
Allan Donald   South Africa 8.0 4/17   England Kennington Oval, London, England
Courtney Walsh   West Indies 10.0 4/25   Bangladesh Castle Avenue, Dublin, Ireland
Shane Warne   Australia 10.0 4/29   South Africa Edgbaston, Birmingham, England

Most maidens edit

Player Team Inns Mdns Ave
Shaun Pollock   South Africa 6 9 40.75
Steve Elworthy   South Africa 5 8 17.85
Glenn McGrath   Australia 7 8 14.60
Shane Warne   Australia 7 8 17.00
Javagal Srinath   India 4 7 18.00
Source: Cricinfo

Hat-tricks edit

Player Team Batsmen out Opponent Date
Saqlain Mushtaq   Pakistan Henry Olonga

Adam Huckle

Pommie Mbangwa

  Zimbabwe 11 June 1999
Source: Cricinfo

Fielding statistics edit

Most dismissals edit

This is a list of the wicketkeepers who have made the most dismissals in the tournament.

Player Team Matches Dismissals Caught Stumped Max
Moin Khan   Pakistan 10 16 12 4 3
Ridley Jacobs   West Indies 5 14 14 0 5
Adam Gilchrist   Australia 10 14 12 2 4
Mark Boucher   South Africa 9 11 11 0 4
Nayan Mongia   India 7 9 8 1 5

Most catches edit

This is a list of the outfielders who have taken the most catches in the tournament.

Player Team Innings Catches
Daryll Cullinan   South Africa 9 8
Graeme Hick   England 5 6
Graham Thorpe   England 5 6
Nathan Astle   New Zealand 9 6
Inzamam-ul-Haq   Pakistan 10 6
Source: Cricinfo

Other Statistics edit

Highest partnerships edit

The following tables are lists of the highest partnerships for the tournament.

By wicket
Wicket Runs Team Players Opposition Ground
1st 194   Pakistan Saeed Anwar Wajahatullah Wasti   New Zealand Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England
2nd 318   India Sourav Ganguly Rahul Dravid   Sri Lanka County Ground, Taunton, England
3rd 237*   India Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar   Kenya County Ground, Bristol, England
4th 126   Australia Ricky Ponting Steve Waugh   South Africa Headingley, Leeds, England
5th 148   New Zealand Roger Twose Chris Cairns   Australia Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Wales
6th 161   Kenya Maurice Odumbe Alpesh Vadher   Sri Lanka County Ground, Southampton, England
7th 83   New Zealand Stephen Fleming Chris Harris   Pakistan County Cricket Ground, Derby, England
8th 64   Sri Lanka Mahela Jayawardene Chaminda Vaas   Kenya County Ground, Southampton, England
9th 44   South Africa Lance Klusener Steve Elworthy   Sri Lanka County Cricket Ground, Northampton, England
10th 35   South Africa Lance Klusener Allan Donald   Zimbabwe County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford, England
By Runs
2nd 318   India Sourav Ganguly Rahul Dravid   Sri Lanka County Ground, Taunton, England
3rd 237*   India Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar   Kenya County Ground, Bristol, England
1st 194   Pakistan Saeed Anwar Wajahatullah Wasti   New Zealand Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England
1st 176   South Africa Gary Kirsten Herschelle Gibbs   New Zealand Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
6th 161   Kenya Maurice Odumbe Alpesh Vadher   Sri Lanka County Ground, Southampton, England
2nd 159*   England Nasser Hussain Graeme Hick   Kenya St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, England
5th 148   New Zealand Roger Twose Chris Cairns   Australia Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Wales
5th 141   India Ajay Jadeja Robin Singh (cricketer)   Australia Kennington Oval, London, England
2nd 130   India Sourav Ganguly Rahul Dravid   South Africa County Cricket Ground, Hove, England
3rd 129   Australia Mark Waugh Steve Waugh   Zimbabwe Lord's, England

References edit

  1. ^ "ICC WORLD CUP, 1999 / HIGHEST TOTALS".
  2. ^ "ICC WORLD CUP, 1999 / LARGEST VICTORIES".
  3. ^ "Most Runs".
  4. ^ "High Scores".
  5. ^ "Most Boundaries".
  6. ^ "Most Sixes".