ICC Champions Trophy 2017 began from 1st June. Well, you will be surprised to know that even after near two decades of its existence, no batsman has scored a 150 plus score in this big ICC event.
So far, the West Indies opener Chris Gayle is the leading run-scorer in the tournament with 791 runs followed by the Sri Lankan duo Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara with 742 and 683 runs respectively.
Sourav Ganguly is the leading run scorer for India with 665 runs and is also the highest scorer with unbeaten 141 runs till now.
Interestingly, none of the players who is in the top 10 list features in the ongoing Champions Trophy. Since West Indies didn’t qualify for the series this year, therefore, chances of Chris Gayle to increase his lead is not possible.
Here is the list of top 10 run-scorers in the ICC Champions Trophy:
1.) Chris Gayle (WI)
Span: 2002-2013
Matches: 17
Innings: 17
Not-Out: 2
Runs: 791
Highest score: 133 not-out
Average: 52.73
Strike-rate: 88.77
100’s: 3
50’s: 1
2.) Mahela Jayawardene (SL)
Span: 2000-2013
Matches: 22
Innings: 21
Not-Out: 3
Runs: 742
Highest score: 84 not-out
Average: 41.22
Strike-rate: 84.80
100’s: 0
50’s: 5
3.) Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
Span: 2000-2013
Matches: 22
Innings: 21
Not-Out: 3
Runs: 683
Highest score: 134 not-out
Average: 37.94
Strike-rate: 71.36
100’s: 1
50’s: 4
4.) Sourav Ganguly (IND)
Span: 1998-2004
Matches: 13
Innings: 11
Not-Out: 2
Runs: 665
Highest score: 141 not-out
Average: 73.88
Strike-rate: 83.12
100’s: 3
50’s: 3
5.) Jacques Kallis (SA)
Span: 1998-2009
Matches: 17
Innings: 17
Not-Out: 3
Runs: 653
Highest score: 113 not-out
Average: 46.64
Strike-rate: 77.46
100’s: 1
50’s: 3
6.) Rahul Dravid (IND)
Span: 1998-2009
Matches: 19
Innings: 15
Not-Out: 2
Runs: 627
Highest score: 76
Average: 48.23
Strike-rate: 73.33
100’s: 0
50’s: 6
7.) Ricky Ponting (AUS)
Span: 1998-2009
Matches: 18
Innings: 18
Not-Out: 3
Runs: 593
Highest score: 111 not-out
Average: 39.53
Strike-rate: 76.51
100’s: 1
50’s: 4
8.) Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)
Span: 1998-2006
Matches: 16
Innings: 16
Not-Out: 5
Runs: 587
Highest score: 74
Average: 53.36
Strike-rate: 67.93
100’s: 0
50’s: 5
9.) Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)
Span: 1998-2009
Matches: 20
Innings: 20
Not-Out: 2
Runs: 536
Highest score: 102 not-out
Average: 29.77
Strike-rate: 88.01
100’s: 1
50’s: 1
10.) Damien Martyn (AUS)
Span: 1998-2006
Matches: 12
Innings: 11
Not-Out: 3
Runs: 492
Highest score: 78
Average: 61.50
Strike-rate: 73.98
100’s: 0
50’s: 5
