Top 8 Best Batsmen In The World Cup History

By siliconindia | Friday, 07 November 2014, 12:55 Hrs

# Ricky Ponting
* Australia

Played with the Indian premier league in the Kolkata Knight Riders Team, Ricky Ponting is considered by many to be one of the best batsmen of the modern cricket era along with Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara.

Scoring 1743 runs from 46 matches, Ricky Ponting holds 140 as his highest average with 5 centuries and 6 fifties in the matches. India faced Ricky Ponting in the 2003 final when he weakened Sourav Ganguly's bowlers with a score of 140 in 121 balls, which included eight sixes too.

# Brian Lara
* West Indies

Held as one of the ace cricketers, Brian Lara holds the record for the highest individual score in a Test innings after scoring 400 not out against England in 2004, and is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games in his career.

Lara made a comeback with a defeat in the opening game of the 2003 World Cup game. His winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket which is next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.