Highest Strike Rate In ODI World Cup

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Highest Strike Rate In ODI World Cup

Player NameDuarationMatInnRunsSR50s100s4s6s
Glenn Maxwell2015-20232624899160.24239443
Brendon McCullum (NZ)2003-20153427742120.84617729
Jos Butler2015-20232623591118.20135015
AB de Villiers (SA)2007-201523221207117.296412137
Kapil Dev (IND)1979-19922624669115.141154+14+
David Miller2015-20232421816113.33215435
Shane Watson (AUS)2007-20152219643108.06606717
Rachin Ravindra2023-20231010578106.17325517
Virender Sehwag (IND)2003-20112222843106.173210818
Rohit Sharma (IND)2015-2019171797895.973610023
Highest Strike Rate In Cricket World Cup
Highest Strike Rate In ODI World Cup

Highest Strike Rate In ODI World Cup Year-wise

YearPlayerStrike Rate
1975Chris Old (ENG)136.92
1979Collis King (WI)121.10
1983 Graham Dilley (ENG)120.00
1987Abdul Qadir (PAK)130.23
1992Chris Lewis (ENG)155.77
1996Romesh Kaluwitharana (SL)140.38
1999Tom Moody (AUS)130.00
2003Ricardo Powell (WI)156.94
2007Shane Watson (AUS)170.59
2011David Hussey (AUS)152.94
2015Dinesh Chandimal (SL)216.67
2019Fabien Allen154.55

A player with the highest strike rate has a tendency to score runs briskly and propel the team’s total in any part of the innings. Power-hitting has been an utmost skillset for the modern-day game. Batters have to be diligent and avoid the scoreboard pressure, particularly in a tournament like ODI Cricket World Cup.

Highest Strike Rate In Cricket World Cup
Highest Strike Rate In ODI World Cup Year-wise

Which player has the highest strike rate In ODI World Cup?

Brendan McCullum Highest Strike Rate
Brendan McCullum Highest Strike Rate In ODI World Cup

Former New Zealand captain Brendan McCullum has the highest strike rate In ODI world cup. He is one of the five players to have a strike rate over 100 in the quadrennial event. McCullum played four editions of the World Cup from 2003 to 2015 before hanging his boots in February 2016.

The swashbuckling batter scored 742 runs in 34 matches at a strike rate of 120.84 with the help of six fifties and one century. AB de Villiers has the second highest strike rate of 117.29 in the World Cup with 1207 runs next to his name in 22 innings. He is the only batter to hit more than 30 sixes with a strike rate over 100.

The likes of Kapil Dev (115.14), Shane Watson (108.06) and Virender Sehwag (106.17) are followed up the charts. Watson has the best strike rate (minimum 5 innings) in a single edition of the ODI World Cup. The former Australian all-rounder made 145 runs in six innings, striking impressively at 170.59 when the Aussies clinched their third straight title in the 2007 World Cup.

What is considered a highest Strike Rate In ODI World Cup?

The batting strike rate is a method where one can calculate how quickly a player can score runs in an innings or a bilateral series or a whole tournament. The formula for calculatinge the batting strike rate goes with dividing the number of runs scored by number of balls faced and the output of that will be multiplied with 100.

For instance, Jos Buttler has scored 38 runs from 24 balls in an innings. Here you will divide 38 by 24 and whatever the result comes should be multiplied with 100. Here is how you can do it - 38/24 = 1.5833 x 100 = 158.33.

In case you want to calculate the overall strike rate of Jos Buttler in a particular series/tournament/year then just divide the aggregate runs of the required event with the total number of balls faced and later multiply the outcome with 100. Considering that Buttler scored 312 runs off 254 balls in the 2019 World Cup, his strike rate was 122.83 in the whole tournament. (312/254 = 1.2283 x 100 = 122.83)

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