Cricket World Cup 2019: All Sri Lanka cricket records at World Cup – most runs, wickets, catches, wins and more
Kumar Sangakkara struck four centuries in a row in the 2015 World Cup. (AFP Image)[/caption] - Sangakkara also holds the record for the highest average. With eight not outs, Sangakkara averages 56.74, ahead of Dilshan and Sri Lanka’s former World Cup winning captain, Arjuna Ranatunga. - A factors behind that average also boils down the number of centuries Sangakkara has at cricket’s biggest tournament. In four World Cups, Sangakkara has five centuries, four of which came on the trot during the 2015 World Cup which ensured Sri Lanka made it to the semifinal. - Dilshan, who is Sri Lanka’s third-highest run-getter holds the record for the Sri Lanka’s highest individual score at the World Cup. His unbeaten 161 against Bangladesh arrived during the 2015 World Cup in Melbourne, where Dilshan hammered 22 fours at a strike rate of 110. Sri Lanka went on to beat Bangladesh comprehensively by 92 runs. - Former captain Angelo Mathews has the highest-strike rate among all Sri Lankan players. Mathews hasn’t really set the World Cup on fire, with just 289 runs from 10 innings, but those runs have come at a SR of 94.13, ahead of Dilshan, Jayasuriya and Sangakkara - Sangakkara and Ranatunga have the maximum half-centuries for Sri Lanka, 7. However, in terms of the most 50-plus scores in the World Cup, the wicket-keeper batsman leads the chart with 12 such scores, three more than the next in line Mahela Jayawardene, who tallies 9. - He may have led Sri Lanka to their only World Cup triumph in 1996, but Ranatunga wasn’t always the best with the bat. He has the maximum of ducks for his country at the World Cup and ties the record with Jayawardene. Jayawardene however has four hundreds, while Ranatunga has not reached the three-figure mark even once. - When it comes to the most sixes hit, the honour goes to the “Matara Mauler”, Jayasuriya. Jayasuriya has smoked 27 sixes, miles ahead of the next in line, de Silva, who has 15 sixes. Jayasuriya has also hit the most sixes in a World Cup innings by a Sri Lankan, when he tonked seven sixes against Bangladesh at Port of Spain in 2007. [caption id="attachment_846033" align="alignnone" width="628"]
Mahela Jayawardene has scored a century in the final of the 2011 World Cup, but Sri Lanka ended up losing their second straight World Cup final. (AFP Image)[/caption] - Jayasuriya has also taken the highest number of catches by a Sri Lanka cricketer in a World Cup, 18. - Jayawardene has the most runs in a single edition of the World Cup for Sri Lanka. He scored 548 runs at an average of 60.88, with one century and four fifties during the 2007 edition and played a key role in Sri Lanka reaching the final in the West Indies. - Jayawardene and Muttiah Muralitharan have played the most World Cup matches for Sri Lanka – 40. Both played five World Cups for their country. - Dilshan and Upul Tharanga hold the record for Sri Lanka’ highest partnership for any wicket in the World Cup. They put on 282 runs in Pallekele against Zimbabwe in 2011 as Sri Lanka romped home by 139 runs, Dilshan was adjudged Player of the Match for his knock of 144. - With 68 scalps, Muralitharan is Sri Lanka’s leading wicket-taker, ahead of Chaminda Vaas and Lasith Malinga, who have 49 and 43 wickets respectively. - Vaas, however, has produced the best bowling figures in an innings by a Sri Lankan. His 6 for 25 against Bangladesh in 2003 gave Sri Lanka a comfortable 10-wicket win with 173 balls to spare. - Sangakkara has affected the most dismissals by a Sri Lankan wicketkeeper in the World Cup. In 37 matches, Sangakkara has taken 41 catches and affected 13 stumpings. The next in line in Romesh Kaluwitharana, who is miles behind with 12 dismissals. - Ashantha de Mel, the former fast bowler has two five-wicket hauls for Sri Lanka in a World Cup. Malinga and Vaas are the only other two bowlers to have taken a five-for for Sri Lanka in the history of the World Cup.