Vivian Richards, Aravinda de Silva and Ricky Ponting each have had the distinction of scoring a century in the final of an ICC Cricket World Cup and making that a title-winning effort. That is something the batsman who heads this list has yet to do.

Richards, who has left a great impact on the tournament, scored a masterly unbeaten 138 that enabled the West Indies to reach 288 in the 1979 final at Lord's. They beat England, who could muster only 194.

Richards (63.31) tops the averages for the ICC Cricket World Cup, though Sachin Tendulkar heads the list of top batsmen with his 1732 runs in 32 innings.Tendulkar has the second highest average (over 59) and shares the most number of centuries (four) with Mark Waugh.

Among current players, Ricky Ponting is closest to Tendulkar with 998 runs in ICC Cricket World Cup tournaments. In the last final, his 140 helped Australia post 359 to beat India.

Tendulkar has an excellent chance of going past 2000 runs in this year's tournament given his record.

Ind

1732

33

32

3

152

59.

72

4

12

1 3

Pak

1083

33

30

5.

103

43.32

1

8

2

0

SL

1064

35

32

3

145

36.69

2

6

2

2

WI

1013

23

21

5

1.81

63.31

3

5

0

1

Aus

1004

22

22

3

130

52.84

4

4

2

0

Aus

998

28

27

3

140*

41.58

3

2

1

0

Aus

978

33

30

10

120*

48.90

1

6

0

0

SL

969

30

29

8

88*

46.14

0

7

3

0

WI

956

25

25

3

116

43.45

2

6

1

0

Pak

915

21

21

4

113*

53.82

3

3

0

0