New Delhi: Age and injuries might have taken a toll on Sachin Tendulkar's
reputation as the best batsman in the world but when it come to the World Cup,
the little master, just shy off 2000 runs in the quadrennial extravaganza,
stands head and shoulders above them all.
On the grandest stage, Sachin
proves himself the greatest, scoring a whopping 1732 runs in 33 matches with a
staggering average of 59.72 in the four World Cups he has played so
far.
Former Pakistani great Javed Miandad is a distant second with 1083
runs in 33 matches with an average of 43.32.
Sri Lankan Aravinda D Silva
(1064), West Indian Vivian Richards (1017) and Aussie Mark Waugh (1004) are the
only other batsmen to have scored more than 1,000 runs in the
competition.
Among the current lot, Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting is
closest to Sachin having scored 998 runs in 28 matches with an average of 41.58
runs per innings.
West Indian skipper Brain Lara also makes his presence
felt with 956 runs in 25 matches.Read more
