World Cup stats to blow your mind

83.63 Of the current Australian players, Michael Clarke has the highest average in World Cup matches. He's scored 669 tournament runs at 83.63 with a top-score of 93*.

Shane Watson has the second highest, averaging 62.14 in 12 World Cup innings.

Of the remaining 13 teams, AB de Villers comes closest to the two Australians with his World Cup average.

He has scored 725 runs in 15 innings at 51.79. They are the only three current players, who have played more than 10 World Cup innings, to average above 50.

109.02 Speaking of Watson, he also has the highest World Cup strike-rate of any player taking part in 2015. He's scored his runs at 109.02.

De Villiers is not far behind, with a Cup strike rate of 104.32.

55 Australia has won more World Cup games than any other team, with 55 victories. New Zealand is next on the list, with 40, despite never making a final.

4 Australia has also won four titles - in 1987, 1999, 2003 and 2007 - while India (1983 and 2011) and West Indies (1975 and 1979) are the only other teams with multiple wins.

17.87 Lasith Malinga is one of the most experienced bowlers at the 2015 tournament and also has the lowest average of the current crop of players. His 31 World Cup wickets have come at 17.87. Pakistan's Shahid Afridi's record at cricket's biggest one-day event is also excellent: he's collected 28 scalps at 19.61.

7 There has only been seven hat-tricks in World Cup history and Malinga is responsible for two of them, in 2007 and 2011.

146 De Villiers and records go hand in hand, so it is not surprising the Proteas captain also has the highest top-score of any player heading to 2015. He scored 146 against West Indies in Grenada in 2007.

Tillakaratne Dilshan is next on the high-score list, with 144 scored in 2011 against Zimbabwe, while Clarke (93*) has the highest score of any current Aussie, followed by Brad Haddin (88).

20.71 Malinga also comes with a strike rate of 20.71 – the best in World Cup history. Brett Lee is second on the all-time list with 23.57.

32.48 United Arab Emirates have the highest average player age – 32.48, perhaps not surprisingly with 43-year-olds Khurram Khan and Mohamma Tauqir in their squad. Sri Lanka has the next highest average age at 31.07. Bangladesh (25) just edged out Afghanistan for the youngest team. Australia has an average age of 28.62.

3 Mahela Jayawardene has scored three World Cup tons, but needs another three in 2015 to match Sachin Tendulkar six.

3 Only seven players in World Cup history have scored centuries as wicketkeeper and three – Kumar Sangakkara, Brendan McCullum and De Villiers – are playing in 2015. Of those three, the latter two have since given up full-time 'keeping duties.

2048 Sri Lanka has by far the most experienced team, with 2048 caps. By comparison, Australia has 1035 caps.

4 The most catches taken by a single player (excluding wicketkeepers) in a World Cup innings is four, courtesy of India's Mohammad Kaif in 2003. Of the current crop, Zimbabwe's Elton Chigumbura and England captain Eoin Morgan have each snared three in an innings.

10 On only 10 occasions have players (including wicketkeepers) scored 50 and taken three catches in the same World Cup innings. Sangakkara's managed the feat three times, while McCullum and Haddin also feature on the list.

4 Surprisingly, AB de Villiers not only has the most World Cup ducks of any current player – he's been dismissed four times without scoring – he also comes in at equal-second on the overall list for most tournament ducks, which is five, which is jointly held by Ijaz Ahmed and Nathan Astle.