Most hundreds scored by a player at the Cricket World Cup (male)

India’s Rohit Sharma struck his seventh ICC Cricket World Cup hundred – one more than the legendary Sachin Tendulkar – playing against Afghanistan at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, India, on 11 October 2023. The opener had reached three figures in one-third of his 21 innings at the World Cup as of 19 October, amassing 1,243 runs in total, an average of 65.42 runs per innings and a strike rate (runs scored per 100 balls faced) of 102.55.

Rohit’s seven tons have been scored against six different teams across three World Cup tournaments. Before his 131 against Afghanistan in Delhi in 2023, his list of centuries was as follows: 137 vs. Bangladesh on 19 March 2015;
122 not out vs. South Africa on 5 June 2019;
140 vs. Pakistan on 16 June 2019;
102 vs. England on 30 June 2019;
104 vs. Bangladesh on 2 July 2019;
and 103 vs. Sri Lanka on 6 July 2019.

Rohit was the leading run-scorer at the 2019 Cricket World Cup in England (648 runs), and he beat Kumar Sangakkara’s 2015 record of four hundreds at a single tournament with his 103 against Sri Lanka. After that innings, Rohit was described as “ridiculously brilliant”, while compatriot Ravichandran Ashwin accused him of “making numbers look silly”.

Rohit’s 131 against Afghanistan featured the fastest World Cup hundred by an Indian batter (63 balls, with 12 fours and four sixes), and with five sixes in total he passed Chris Gayle’s record for the most maximums in international cricket (Tests, One-Day Internationals and T20 Internationals) – 556 vs. 553.