David Warner breaks Tendulkar’s record to score fastest 1000 ODI World Cup runs. After only 19 innings, Australian batsman David Warner became the fastest player in Cricket World Cup history to reach 1,000 runs.
The left-hander scored 41 runs in Australia’s opening match of the 2023 Cricket World Cup but was unable to prevent their loss to India.
Warner, on the other hand, broke the run-scoring record held by India legend Tendulkar and former South African captain de Villiers, who both took 20 innings to reach 1,000 runs in Cricket World Cups.
As David Warner breaks Tendulkar’s record to score the fastest 1000 ODI World Cup runs, Tendulkar still holds the record for most runs in the showpiece event, having scored 2,278 runs in 45 matches across six Cricket World Cups from 1992 to 2011.
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Warner now has 1,033 runs after participating in three Cricket World Cups since 2015.
Sachin Tendulkar, ICC Hall of Famer and India legend, joins ICC Digital Insider Tanvi Shah to reflect on India’s ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2011 victory and their hopes of winning another trophy on home soil in 2023.
Rohit Sharma, who is currently 22 runs short of 1,000 runs from 18 innings at Cricket World Cups, could equal Warner’s record when India plays Afghanistan on 11 October.
After being caught in front for a duck off Josh Hazlewood’s bowling, the India captain was unable to increase his career total in the victory over Australia.
