Rohit Sharma (India). 597 runs @ 54.27, one century, three fifties, strike-rate 125, highest score 131: Reinvented himself as a berserker at the top of the order and boomed more sixes – 31 – than any other player. Left holding back the tears at the end, The Hitman is unlikely to ever be a 50-over World Cup winner but will unquestionably go down as an ODI great.
Quinton de Kock (wk) (South Africa). 594 runs @ 59.4, four centuries, SR 107, HS 174, 19 catches, one stumping: This was a fine swan song in ODI cricket for doleful De Kock; the highest number of runs in a men’s World Cup from a wicketkeeper-batter and, as ever, compiled in such utterly butterly fashion. Those gloves deny Travis Head a spot here, a call that possibly compares to this correspondent’s pre-tournament predictions.
