Most Centuries in World Cups

The ODI world cup has already started and is in its last phase with the semi-finals and final matches. The tournament started from 5 October and the final match will be played on 19 November. After every four years top 10 teams play for the title and games become more thrilling and exciting. Many Players score tons for their teams and become the top scorer of the tournament. 

Here, We will tell you about the centuries in ODI world cup scored by players in world cup 2023 and previous seasons of World cups.

No

Batsmen

Team

100s

Matches

Inns

R

H.S

1

Quinton de Kock

SA

4

9

9

591

174

2

Rachin Ravindra

NZ

3

9

9

565

123

3

Glenn Maxwell

AUS

2

7

7

397

201

4

Mitchell Marsh

AUS

2

8

8

426

177

5

Virat Kohli

IND

2

9

9

594

103

6

David Warner

AUS

2

9

9

499

163

7

Rassie van der Dussen

SA

1

9

9

442

133

8

Travis Head

AUS

1

4

4

130

109

9

Aiden Markram

SA

1

9

9

396

106

10

Mahmudullah

BAN

1

8

7

328

111

11

Daryl Mitchell

NZ

1

9

8

418

130

12

Charith Asalanka

SL

1

9

8

288

108

13

Rohit Sharma

IND

1

9

9

503

131

14

Shreyas Iyer

IND

1

9

9

421

128

15

KL Rahul

IND

1

9

8

347

102

Here are the players who have scored centuries in World Cup 2023, among them QD Kock is the player who has scored most centuries with 4 Centuries in 8 matches with the highest score of 174. For Team India there are 4 players who have scored centuries: Virat Kohli with 2 centuries and Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, and KL Rahul with 1 century throughout the innings. 

Now if we are looking at the stats of player who have scored centuries then lets see at the most centuries scored in world cups.

Rank

Player

Innings

Runs

100s

Highest Score

Span

1

RG Sharma (IND)

20

1195

7

140

2015-2023

2

SR Tendulkar (IND)

44

2278

6

152

1992-2011

3

KC Sangakkara (SL)

35

1532

5

124

2003-2015

4

RT Ponting (AUS)

42

1743

5

140*

1996-2011

5

SC Ganguly (IND)

21

1006

4

183

1999-2007

6

DA Warner (AUS)

21

1057

4

178

2015-2023

7

AB de Villiers (SA)

22

1207

4

162*

2007-2015

8

ME Waugh (AUS)

22

1004

4

130

1992-1999

9

TM Dilshan (SL)

25

1112

4

161*

2007-2015

10

DPMD Jayawardene (SL)

34

1100

4

115*

1999-2015

In World Cups, Rohit Sharma is the player with most world cup centuries with 7 centuries in 20 innings with highest score of 140 and Sachin Tendulkar standing at second position with 6 centuries in 44 innings with the highest score of 152.