The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 was the 13th edition of the men’s tournament. It featured 10 teams, 48 matches and 10 venues between 5 October and 19 November 2023, while its records extended from South Africa’s 428/5 to Virat Kohli’s 765 runs. The figures below also show how attendance, broadcast minutes and digital engagement have grown across recent World Cups.
ICC Cricket World Cup statistics at a glance
- 2023 tournament format and prize money
- Team records and scoring milestones
- Batting records from 2023
- Bowling and all-round records
- Attendance and broadcast audience
- Digital reach and social engagement
2023 tournament format and prize money
The 2023 competition lasted 46 days. Each of the 10 teams played two warm-up matches, and the tournament schedule contained 45 group-stage matches within the overall total of 48. These figures come from the ICC prize money announcement.
The total prize pool was USD 10 million. Australia, the champion, received USD 4 million, while India, the runner-up, received USD 2 million. Each losing semi-finalist received USD 800,000. A team eliminated after the group stage received USD 100,000, and each group-stage win was worth USD 40,000.
| 2023 result or stage | Prize money |
|---|---|
| Champion | USD 4 million |
| Runner-up | USD 2 million |
| Losing semi-finalist | USD 800,000 |
| Group-stage elimination | USD 100,000 |
| Group-stage win | USD 40,000 |
Australia’s victory was its record sixth men’s Cricket World Cup title. By the end of the 2023 tournament, Australia had appeared in 8 of the 13 men’s World Cup finals. India and England were joint-second for final appearances, with 4 each. The ICC records article also reported that every participating team won at least 2 games.
Team records and scoring milestones
South Africa produced the tournament’s largest team total, scoring 428/5 against Sri Lanka. The ICC records article described it as the highest-ever score in a Cricket World Cup game and also South Africa’s third-highest ODI total.
South Africa’s wider 2023 campaign created several team records. Its batters hit 9 individual centuries, the most by a team in a single World Cup edition. South Africa also became the first team to score four totals above 350 in one edition. Its 99 sixes were the most by a team in a single World Cup edition.
The 2023 final between India and Australia was also a major audience event. The ICC broadcast records article reported 87.6 billion live viewing minutes globally for the final. Across the tournament, broadcast viewing exceeded 1 trillion total minutes.
The 2023 broadcast total was 38% higher than the 2011 India World Cup and 17% higher than the 2019 England and Wales World Cup. India alone contributed 422 billion viewing minutes on the Disney Star Network. That figure was 54% above India’s 2011 total and 9% above its 2019 total.
Batting records from 2023
Virat Kohli led the 2023 tournament with 765 runs and a batting average of 95.62. His total surpassed Sachin Tendulkar’s previous single-edition World Cup record of 673 runs. During the tournament semi-final against New Zealand, Kohli reached his 50th ODI century and became the highest ODI century-maker with 50 centuries at that point.
Rohit Sharma scored 597 runs at an average of 54.27 and a strike rate of 125.94. His score of 131 against Afghanistan was his seventh Cricket World Cup century. That made Rohit the leading century-maker in Cricket World Cup history, with 7 centuries. He also hit 54 sixes, becoming the first player to hit more than 50 sixes in one World Cup edition.
Quinton de Kock scored 594 runs. The ICC records article identified that as the highest total by a wicketkeeper-batter in a single World Cup edition. De Kock also became the first player in cricket history to score 500 runs and complete at least 20 dismissals in a World Cup.
Rohit Sharma and David Warner both took 19 innings to reach 1,000 World Cup runs, making them joint-fastest to the milestone. Their shared mark adds an innings-based measure to the larger run totals recorded in 2023.
Glenn Maxwell’s double century supplied another unusual batting milestone. It was the first double century by an Australian in ODIs, the second-fastest ODI double ton ever, and the first ODI double century scored in a chase. It was also the highest ODI score by a batter coming in at No. 6 or lower.
Bowling and all-round records
Mohammed Shami took 24 wickets at a bowling average of 10.7 in the 2023 World Cup. He reached 50 World Cup wickets in 17 innings, the fastest ever, and recorded 3 five-wicket hauls in the edition. The ICC records article described him as the first bowler to take three five-wicket hauls in one World Cup edition.
Adam Zampa finished the 2023 tournament with 23 wickets. That equaled Muttiah Muralitharan’s record for the most wickets by a spinner in a World Cup edition.
Mitchell Starc had 65 World Cup wickets by the end of 2023, ranking third all-time in Cricket World Cup history. These career-tournament figures sit alongside the single-edition records held by Shami and Zampa.
Not every bowling statistic in 2023 was a positive record. Haris Rauf conceded 533 runs, the most conceded by any bowler in a single World Cup edition. The figure reflects the volume of runs allowed across the tournament rather than a measure of wickets or economy rate.
Attendance and broadcast audience
The 2023 World Cup attracted 1.25 million spectators, according to the ICC attendance release. That surpassed the 1,016,420 spectators recorded for the 2015 World Cup and the 752,000 recorded for the 2019 World Cup.
The millionth fan of the 2023 competition entered during Afghanistan versus South Africa in Ahmedabad, an attendance milestone reported separately by the ICC.
The ICC’s 2019 audience report recorded a global cumulative average audience of 1.6 billion viewers and 13.7 billion viewing hours. The 2019 tournament had 20,000 hours of coverage across 25 broadcast partners in more than 200 territories.
| Audience measure | 2019 World Cup | 2023 World Cup |
|---|---|---|
| Spectators | 752,000 | 1.25 million |
| Global broadcast viewing minutes | Not stated in the supplied 2019 report | More than 1 trillion |
| Women in audience | 41% | 34% |
| Coverage detail | 20,000 hours, 25 partners, 200+ territories | UK: 800 hours; Australia: 602 hours |
The audience composition changed between the two reported editions. Women represented 41% of the 2019 audience, while the 2023 broadcast records article reported female viewership at 34%. In 2019, 32% of the audience was aged 18 to 34.
The 2019 World Cup reached a unique broadcast audience of 706 million viewers. Average time watched per unique viewer rose 42% versus 2015, and the unique broadcast audience was 22% higher than in 2015. India versus Pakistan was the most watched 2019 match, with 273 million unique viewers on linear television and more than 50 million additional digital-only viewers.
The UK logged more than 5.86 billion live viewing minutes from 800 hours of 2023 coverage. Australia logged 3.79 billion viewing minutes from 602 hours of coverage, and Australia’s broadcast viewing minutes were 92% higher than in 2011.
Digital reach and social engagement
The 2023 World Cup recorded 16.9 billion video views on ICC platforms, according to the ICC digital records article. That was a 158% increase from the previous record, set at the 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
ICC social channels recorded 1.23 billion engagements for the 2023 World Cup. Engagement was 142% higher than at the 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup and 155% higher than at the 2019 World Cup.
These digital figures measure views and engagements, while the broadcast figures measure viewing minutes, audience size or viewing hours. They should therefore be read as different indicators of reach rather than combined into one audience total. The 2023 figures show exceptionally large digital activity alongside more than 1 trillion broadcast viewing minutes, while the 2019 figures provide the clearest supplied measures for unique viewers, audience composition and time watched.