The 2015 Cricket World Cup is just days away from getting kicked off and the cricket fraternity has started to have a grip over it. The hosts Australia and New Zealand are gearing for the extravaganza and the players too are battling it hard to perform well in the World Cup. Since the completion of 2011 World Cup, let us look at how the batsmen around the World fared down under.
South African captain AB de Villiers has scored 576 runs in 10 innings at an average of 115.20 leads the batsmen with better averages. De Villiers is followed by the Englishman-in-exile Jonathan Trott with an average of 68.25. Indian duo of MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli with averages of 53.00 and 48.57 too feature in the list alongside Adam Voges, Luke Ronchi, David Hussey, Steve Smith and Tillakaratne Dilshan. India has played 5 matches in New Zealand and 11 matches in Australia in the given period.
|
S.No |
Batsmen |
Team |
Mat/Inn |
Runs |
Avg |
Highest |
100/50 |
|
1 |
AB de Villiers |
South Africa |
10/10 |
576 |
115.20 |
106* |
1/ 4 |
|
2 |
Jonathan Trott |
England |
10/10 |
546 |
68.25 |
137 |
2/3 |
|
3 |
Adam Voges |
Australia |
10/10 |
365 |
60.83 |
112* |
1/1 |
|
4 |
Luke Ronchi |
New Zealand |
18/15 |
541 |
54.10 |
170* |
1/ 2 |
|
5 |
MS Dhoni |
India |
15/13 |
530 |
53.00 |
79* |
0/5 |
|
6 |
Phillip Hughes |
Australia |
10/8 |
416 |
52.00 |
138* |
2/1 |
|
7 |
Virat Kohli |
India |
16/16 |
680 |
48.57 |
133* |
2/4 |
|
8 |
David Hussey |
Australia |
23/22 |
803 |
47.23 |
74 |
0/8 |
|
9 |
Steve Smith |
Australia |
20/17 |
613 |
47.15 |
105 |
2/2 |
|
10 |
Tillakaratne Dilshan |
Sri Lanka |
25/24 |
1036 |
47.09 |
160* |
4/3 |
Scottish skipper Preston Mommenson too averages over 100 as he had scored 323 in three innings down under. Late Australian batsman Phillip Hughes also features in the list with an average of 52.00.