The records keep tumbling at the 2023 ODI World Cup. Virat Kohli overtook Sachin Tendulkar for most centuries in the ODI format by scoring his 50th against New Zealand in the semifinal at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. It was Kohli’s third hundred at the ongoing tournament. For India, Shreyas Iyer has also claimed a couple of centuries while KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma have one each. The first hundred at the tournament was scored by New Zealand’s Devon Conway in the opening game against England.
The 2023 ODI World Cup is the 13th edition of the tournament and the fourth instance of India hosting the showpiece ICC Cricket World Cup. In the history of the World Cup competition, Sachin Tendulkar leads the all-time scoring charts with 2278 from the 45 matches he played across six editions of the tournament. Behind him in the top five are Ricky Ponting (1743), Kumar Sangakkara (1532), Brian Lara (1225), and AB de Villiers (1207).
Tendulkar’s record for most runs in a single edition of the World Cup (673) in the 2003 tournament has also been surpassed by Kohli in the ongoing edition.
In the 2019 edition of the tournament, India’s Rohit Sharma was the leading run-scorer with 648 runs in nine outings. During his run, Sharma would score a record five tons, more than any other batter in one World Cup. The Indian captain now has seven centuries in his overall World Cup tally, which takes him past Sachin Tendulkar.
Behind him in the runs tally for the tournament hosted in England were David Warner (647), Shakib Al Hasan (606), Kane Williamson (578) and Joe Root (556) - both of whom featured in the 2019 World Cup final at Lord’s that went down the wire to a Super Over and was eventually decided on the boundary count.