“Let’s face it, Sachin has played and lost 5 world cups before this, he has to take some of the responsibility/blame for some of that, it has not always been the teams fault.”
This is the comment by one of my blog reader and this triggered me to dig in further into Sachin’s stats.
M- Matches; R – Runs; A – Average;
1992 Benson & Hedges World Cup
Martin Crowe – M-9, R-456, A-114, 100-1, 50-4
Azharuddin – M-8, R-332, A-47.42, 100-0, 50-4
Sachin – M-8, R-283, A-47.16, 100-0, 50-3
1996 Wills World Cup
Sachin – M-7, R-523, A-87.16, 100-2, 50-3
Sidhu – M-5, R-178, A-35.6, 100-0, 50-2
1999 ICC World Cup
Dravid – M-8, R-461, A-65.85, 100-2, 50-3
Ganguly – M-10, R-398, A-79.6, 100-1, 50-2
Jadeja – M-8, R-285, A-47.5, 100-1, 50-1
Sachin – M-7, R-253, A-42.16, 100-1, 50-0
2003 ICC World Cup
Sachin – M-11, R-673, A-61.18, 100-1, 50-6
Ganguly – M-11, R-465, A-58.12, 100-3, 50-0
2007 ICC World Cup
Hayden – M-11, R-659, A-73.22, 100-3, 50-1
Sehwag – M-3, R-164, A-54.66, 100-1, 50-0
Sachin – M-3, R-64, A-32, 100-0, 50-1
2011 ICC World Cup
Sehwag – M-5, R-327, A-65.4, 100-1, 50-1
Sachin – M-5, R-324, A-64.8, 100-2, 50-0
From the above stats, there is no world cup other than 2007 (where the whole team has miserably failed) where Sachin has not performed. There is no world cup (other than 2007) where Sachin has scored runs at an average less than 40.
Overall by Indians
Sachin – M-41, R-2120, A-58.88, 100-6, 50-13
Ganguly – M-21, R-1006, A-55.88, 100-4, 50-3
Dravid – M-22, R-860, A-61.42, 100-2, 50-6
Azharuddin – M-30, R-826, A-39.33, 100-0, 50-8
The above are the overall stats for Indian’s performance at World Cups. I guess Sachin has done his job and it was team who failed to do the rest at most of the times. Out of those 39 world cup innings he played, he scored more than 50 in 19 innings which is almost 50%.
Overall World Cup Records
Most Runs – 2120
Most Hundreds – 6
Most Fifties – 13
Best Average with more than 1000 Runs – 58.88
Most Runs in a World Cup – 673
Involved in Best 3rd Wicket Partnership with Dravid – 237
2nd in the most number of matches played – 41
From the above records one can understand that he has been the most prolific batsmen in world cups and has done his job every time he entered the ground. For more stats about Sachin’s performance in World cups you can check the below link. I have queried cricinfo site to get the results for world cups.
