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A One Day International (ODI) tournament for men’s cricket is called the Cricket World Cup. The Cricket World Cup is a competition that is hosted every four years and is organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Even though the ICC stated an interest in changing the format in response to criticism of the 2007 World Cup, the number of teams and matches has increased since that time.
The Indian batter Sachin Tendulkar holds a number of unique World Cup records. Tendulkar, one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1997 and “the most followed cricketer in the world,” has amassed more scores of fifty or more and runs in a World Cup than any other player. With four World Cup appearances for his nation, Australia’s Glenn McGrath owns the individual bowling records. He possesses the best individual bowling statistics, the highest strike rate, and the lowest economy rate of any bowler in the history of the competition.
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| Record | First | Second | Ref(s) | ||||
| Most wickets in a tournament | Mitchell Starc | 27 (10 matches) | 2019 | Glenn McGrath | 26 (11 matches) | 2007 | [63] |
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Mitchell Starc
Johnson came first, and then came Starc. Mitchell, a left-armer, has been a mainstay of Australia’s offence for more than ten years and looks certain to do so for the foreseeable future. While Johnson was more direct, Starc has better swing control than his old teammate and is still quick enough to make life difficult for opposing batters because to the bounce he gets from his 1.96m height. Never was it more evident than during the 2015 World Cup, when Starc occasionally made himself unplayable by rattling stumps and trapping batsmen in front throughout the match. Because of his 22 victims at 10.18, it is not unexpected that he was voted Player of the Tournament. Four years later, he would take 27 wickets, when Australia’s World Cup defence came to an end in the semi-finals in England.
Glenn McGrath
“Thin – but Ambrose-thin, not Bruce Reid-thin,” Mike Whitney said of the young Glenn McGrath. Mike Atherton made a more extensive comparison between McGrath and Ambrose much later. McGrath was propelled into Test cricket from the New South Wales outback to succeed Merv Hughes in 1993, and he went on to become the greatest Australian fast bowler of all time.
His claim to be Australia’s greatest fast man is only challenged by Dennis Lillee as he went on to surpass Courtney Walsh’s 519 wickets in the 2005 Super Test to become the leading wicket-taker among fast bowlers. His obituary was produced a few times; following an ankle operation in 2004 and a prolonged absence to care for his father, there were similar doubts, but he wrote his own farewells. wife two years later. In 2007, his final one-day appearance, he was named Man of the Tournament during Australia’s victorious World Cup campaign after retiring from Tests at the SCG, his home stadium, following Australia’s 5-0 thrashing of England in the 2006–07 Ashes.
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