Rohit Sharma on cusp of breaking Kane Williamson’s all-time World Cup record in final

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Rohit Sharma on cusp of breaking Kane Williamson’s all-time World Cup record in final


Image Source : GETTY Rohit Sharma and Kane Williamson

India and Australia are all set to face one another in the final of World Cup 2023 on Sunday (November 19) on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Both groups are on a profitable streak in this mega occasion with India profitable all of their 10 matches whereas Australia have received their final 8 video games.

It has been a record-breaking World Cup for some of the Indian gamers. Skipper Rohit Sharma has additionally damaged fairly a couple of information together with his selfless batting upfront and has yet one more in his sight forward of the final. He has to this point amassed 550 runs in 10 innings at a median of 55 and a strike-rate of 124.15 with 28 sixes to his title. The opening batter wants solely 29 runs to turn into the captain with most runs in a single World Cup version.

Kane Williamson is on prime of this listing having smashed 578 runs in 2019 World Cup that was performed in England. He had damaged legendary Sri Lanka cricketer Mahela Jayawardene’s record who had scored 548 runs as captain of his group in World Cup 2007. In the identical version, Ricky Ponting had mustered 539 runs as Australia skipper whereas main the group to glory finally.

Coming again to Rohit Sharma, he has a great opportunity to be an element of historical past in the World Cup. Looking on the method Rohit Sharma is batting in this mega occasion, scoring 29 runs should not be a giant deal for him to take a seat atop of this listing going previous New Zealand captain Williamson.

Captains to attain most runs in a single World Cup version

Players Runs World Cup version
Kane Williamson 578 2019
Rohit Sharma 550* 2023
Mahela Jayawardene 548 2007
Ricky Ponting 539 2007
Aaron Finch 507 2019
AB de Villiers 482 2015
Sourav Ganguly 465 2003
Kumar Sangakkara 465 2011

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