Champions Trophy Records: Top 10 Batsmen

The top 10 batsmen in terms of runs scored in the recently concluded Champions Trophy 2009 concludes that the Best Team is still Australia. The first two positions were occupied by Australians and they have captured the man of the series and man of the match awards respectively.

Australian skipper heads the table with 288 runs in 5 matches while Watson had just 23 runs short in the same number of matches. Watson in fact started with 2 ducks in the first two matches and then went on to score 2 back-to-back centuries in the semi-final (against England) and final (against New Zealand).

None of the Indian team players are in the top 10. Indian team got opportunity to bat only in 2 games (against Pakistan and West Indies). Their game against Australia was washed out due to rain. West Indies also did not have anyone figuring in the table.

Read as: M=Matches; R=Runs; B=Balls Faced; NO=Not Out; HS=Highest; Avge=Average

S#	Batsman	Team	M	R	B	NO	4s	6s	HS	100s	50s	0s	Avge
1	R Ponting	Aus	5	288	366	1	26	3	*111	1	2	0	72.00
2	S Watson	Aus	5	265	291	2	25	11	*136	2	0	2	88.33
3	G Smith	SA	3	206	192	0	26	1	141	1	1	0	68.66
4	P Collingwood	Eng	4	202	233	0	18	8	82	0	1	0	50.50
5	M Yousuf	Pak	4	200	266	0	17	0	87	0	1	0	50.00
6	M Guptill	NZ	5	191	231	0	18	3	66	0	2	0	38.20
7	S Malik	Pak	4	180	209	0	19	2	128	1	0	0	45.00
8	D Jayawardene	SL	3	163	158	0	15	3	77	0	2	0	54.33
9	B McCullum	NZ	5	155	209	0	13	6	48	0	0	1	31.00
10	T Dilshan	SL	3	149	135	0	23	2	106	1	0	0	49.66