ICC’s team of the tournament New Zealand's captain and Player of the Tournament Kane Williamson has been named captain of an ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 team that includes six players from Sunday's dramatic final at Lord's. Newly-crowned world champions England are the most represented with four selections in the XI while runners-up the Black Caps have two in the team, named by a panel selected by the ICC to honour players who performed well in the tournament.
The other representatives come from the losing semi-finalists India and Australia, who have two each, while Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan rounds out the team.
Team of the tournament:
Kane Williamson who led New Zealand to their 2nd World Cup final was named captain of the team while Alex Carey was appointed wicketkeeper.
India’s Rohit Sharma finished as the leading run-scorer in the 2019 Cricket World Cup and became the only man to score 5 hundreds in a single World Cup. Jasprit Bumrah, Rohit Sharma's Mumbai Indians teammate, was the pick of India's bowlers and finished with 18 wickets. Explosive England opener Jason Roy was named as Rohit's opening partner.
Roy scored 443 runs at a strike rate of 115.36 and played significant innings in a must-win game agaisnt India and the semi-final against Australia. Kane Williamson was described as the "bedrock of New Zealand's batting right through the tournament". Williamson was named Player of the Tournament for his astute leadership and scoring 578 runs in the 2019 World Cup.
England batting mainstay Joe Root, who scored 556 runs but failed to make an impact in a tense final, was also named in the ICC XI.
Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was slotted in at No.5 after he starred with both bat and ball. He finished with 606 runs and 11 wickets in arguably one of the greatest World Cup performances of all time. Ben Stokes of England was the other all-rounder in the side. He stood tall with knocks of 82 not out and 89 not despite England's batting collapse against Sri Lanka and Australia.
Australia's wicketkeeper Alex Carey had a good tournament behind the stumps and with the bat. He scored 375 runs from 9 innings and made the cut ahead of some of the greatest wicketkeepers in the modern era.
Carey's Australia teammate Mitchell Starc was the other inclusion in the ICC XI. He finished with an all-time World Cup record of 27 wickets and was on fire throughout the 2019 World Cup barring the all important semi-final.
Jofra Archer (England), Lockie Ferguson (New Zealand) and Bumrah made the rest of the XI while Trent Boult was named the 12th man in the side.
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