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2007 Cricket World Cup The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was the ninth Cricket World Cup, a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007. There were a total of 51 matches played, three fewer than at the ...
held in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007.
Though India were eliminated early, they set the
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record for the highest victory margin in their 257 run win over Bermuda. In their match against Netherlands, Herschelle Gibbs ( South Africa) created ODI and International cricket record when he hit sixes off all six deliveries in
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's over. In the Super 8 stage games, Lasith Malinga (
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) created ODI record when he took four wickets in four consecutive deliveries in a losing effort against South Africa. By the end of the tournament, new World Cup records for the fastest fifty (20 balls – Brendon McCullum of New Zealand) and fastest hundred (66 balls –
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of
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) were established.
Glenn McGrath Glenn Donald McGrath (; born 9 February 1970) is an Australian former international cricketer who played international cricket for 14 years. He was a fast-medium pace bowler (cricket), bowler and is considered one of the greatest international ...
established a new Cricket World Cup record for the most wickets (26) and also finished his ODI career with the most wickets in World Cup history (71). The number of
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in the overall tournament (373) was 40% higher than the previous record holder, the
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(266). The tournament also saw 32 century partnerships (previous record of 28 during the
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) and 10 batsmen over 400 runs (previous record of 4 during the 2003 Cricket World Cup). __NOTOC__


Records


Team totals


Highest team total

India's total of 413 runs against Bermuda was, at the time, the record for the highest score in an innings in a World cup match, since bettered by South Africa's 428 runs against Sri Lanka in the 2023 Cricket World Cup.


Lowest team total


Batting


Most runs in the tournament

Hayden's 659 runs in the series stands second to only Tendulkar's 673 runs in the 2003 Cricket World Cup. The tournament also saw 10 players exceeding 400 runs for the first time, the previous best being 4 players over 400 runs in world cup tournament (2003 edition). * ''Note : Only top 10 players shown.''


Highest individual scores

Imran Nazir's 160 is the highest score by any individual in West Indies in ODI and
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matches. Matthew Hayden scored the 100th century in World cup history during his innings of 103 against New Zealand. ''Note: Only top ten scores listed.''


Highest partnerships of the tournament

The 4th wicket partnership between Brad Hodge and Michael Clarke is the world cup record for that wicket. ''Note: Top ten would be listed – eleventh place listed due to equal scores.''


Highest partnerships for each wicket

Note: * denotes unfinished partnerships.


Most sixes


In an innings

''Note: Only listing innings of 5 or more sixes.''


In the tournament

''Note: Only player with 10 or more. Listed in order of number of sixes, then innings, then surname.''


Bowling


Most wickets in the tournament

McGrath surpassed Akram's record (55 wickets) for the highest number of wickets in World Cup matches, in the game against Bangladesh. His total of 26 wickets was the highest in any single World Cup tournament, and he finished the tournament with 71 wickets in all World Cup matches. * ''Note: Only top 10 players shown. Sorted by wickets then bowling average.''


Best bowling

''Note: Only top ten performances listed.''


Fielding


Most catches in a match


Most catches in the tournament

Ricky Ponting increased his record number of catches in World cup matches from 17 to 25. Sanath Jayasuriya has moved to second place (18 catches). :''Note: Only lists players with 6 catches or more


Wicket-keeping


Most dismissals in a match

''Note: only top performance listed (sorted by date)''


Most dismissals in the tournament

Adam Gilchrist became the first wicket-keeper to reach the milestone of 50 dismissals in all World Cup matches. His tally of seven World Cup
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s also equals the record held by Pakistan's Moin Khan. ''Note: Only top 10 players shown.''


Tied match

2007 Cricket World cup saw the third tied match in the tournament history ensuring that this was the third world cup with a tied game (1999 Cricket World Cup – Semifinals between Australia and South Africa and 2003 Cricket World Cup – Group B match between South Africa and Sri Lanka)


References


See also

* Cricket statistics * Cricket terminology * Cricket World Cup records * 2003 Cricket World Cup statistics
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