The Young Chronicle: For 1st Graders April 3rd, 2015 | Page 3
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RECORDS OF THE ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015
Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc and New Zealand
bowler Trent Boult finished
with the most number of
wickets in the World Cup
2015. Both grabbed 22 wickets.
Martin Guptill made a name
for himself by becoming the
highest run-scorer of the
tournament with a total of
547 runs in the entire tournament.
Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara took batting to a new
height as he became the first
man to score four back to
back centuries in one-day
cricket. He went past 500runs for the second time in
the tournament which also
made him only the second
man after Sachin Tendulkar
to get to the milestone.
South African skipper AB de
Villiers made the fastest
150 runs (in 64 balls)
against West Indies.
South African JP Duminy
claimed a hat-trick to become the first South African to achieve the feat in a
World Cup and only the
second spinner after Pakistan's Saqlain Mushtaq.
The final match of the World Cup took
place at the Melbourne Cricket
Ground between co-hosts New Zealand and Australia in front of a record
crowd of 93,013 people!
Also, Australia played in their record
seventh final, having won four
(1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007) and lost
two (1975, 1996).
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