5. Jacques Kallis
South African Jacques Kallis has played 36 matches across five World Cup from 196 to 2011. In the 32 innings he got to bat, he amassed 1148 runs with an average of 43. Unfortunately for Kallis, his side failed to reach the finals at least once in those editions. His highest score 128* came against the Netherlands in the same match in which Herschelle Gibbs hit six sixes in an over.