List of Cricket World Cup records
Overall
Sachin Tendulkar holds numerous batting records, including those for the most centuries, most fifties and most runs. He also has the most Man of the Match awards.

List of Cricket World Cup records

Section Title: Overall
Table Section Text: Sachin Tendulkar holds numerous batting records, including those for the most centuries, most fifties and most runs. He also has the most Man of the Match awards.

Record	First	Second	Ref(s)

Most runs	India Sachin Tendulkar	2,278	Australia Ricky Ponting	1,743

Highest average (min. 20 inns.)	South Africa AB de Villiers	63.52	Australia Michael Clarke	63.42

Highest Strike rate (min. 20 inns.)	New Zealand Brendon McCullum	120.84	South Africa AB de Villiers	117.29

Fastest double century	West Indies Cricket Board Chris Gayle v Zimbabwe (2015)	138 balls	New Zealand Martin Guptill v West Indies (2015)	152 balls

Fastest 150	South Africa AB de Villiers v West Indies (2015)	64 balls

Fastest century	Ireland Kevin O'Brien v England (2011)	50 balls	Australia Glenn Maxwell v Sri Lanka (2015)	51 balls

Fastest fifty	New Zealand Brendon McCullum v England (2015)	18 balls	New Zealand Brendon McCullum v Canada (2007) Sri Lanka Angelo Mathews v Scotland (2015)	20 balls

Most centuries	India Sachin Tendulkar	6	Australia Ricky Ponting Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara	5

Most 50+ scores	India Sachin Tendulkar	21	Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara	12

Most ducks	New Zealand Nathan Astle	5 out of 22	Pakistan Ijaz Ahmed	5 out of 26

Most sixes	West Indies Cricket Board Chris Gayle South Africa AB de Villiers	37	Australia Ricky Ponting	31

Most sixes in an innings	West Indies Cricket Board Chris Gayle v Zimbabwe (2015)	16	New Zealand Martin Guptill v West Indies (2015)	11

Highest score	New Zealand Martin Guptill v West Indies (2015)	237*	West Indies Cricket Board Chris Gayle v Zimbabwe (2015)	215

Most runs through boundaries in an innings	New Zealand Martin Guptill v West Indies (2015)	162	West Indies Cricket Board Chris Gayle v Zimbabwe (2015)	136

Highest partnership	West Indies Cricket Board Marlon Samuels & Chris Gayle (2nd wicket) v Zimbabwe (2015)	372	India Sourav Ganguly & Rahul Dravid (2nd wicket) v Sri Lanka (1999)	318

Sentence(s)

Martin Guptill, from New Zealand, was the first player to score a double century.

final_sentence: Martin Guptill, from New Zealand, was the first player to score a double century.