Johannesburg, Mar 09: Sri Lanka's Aravinda De Silva became the fifth player to score 1,000 World Cup career runs when he made 92 during Friday's match against Australia at Centurion. India's Sachin Tendulkar still leads the way with 1,533 runs.
Top ten World Cup run-makers (matches, innings, not out, runs, average, 100s, 50s):
Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) 29 28 3 1533 152 61.32 4 10
Javed Miandad (Pak) 33 30 5 1083 103 43.32 1 8
Aravinda De Silva (Sri) 32 29 3 1028 145 39.53 2 6
Viv Richards (WI) 23 21 5 1013 181 63.31 3 5
Mark Waugh (Aus) 22 22 3 1004 130 52.84 4 4
Steve Waugh (Aus) 33 30 10 978 120* 48.90 1 6
Arjuna Ranatunga (Sri) 30 29 8 969 88* 46.14 0 7
Brian Lara (WI) 25 25 3 956 116 43.45 2 6
Saeed Anwar (Pak) 21 21 4 915 113* 53.82 3 3
Graham Gooch (Eng) 21 21 1 897 115 44.85 1 8. Bureau Report