| Players | Team | Matches | Balls | Runs | Wickets | Best Inning |
| M Muralitharan | Sri Lanka | 132 | 43669 | 17989 | 792 | 9/51 |
| SK Warne | Australia | 145 | 40705 | 17995 | 708 | 8/71 |
| A Kumble | India | 132 | 40850 | 18355 | 619 | 10/74 |
| GD McGrath | Australia | 124 | 29248 | 12186 | 563 | 8/24 |
| CA Walsh | West Indies | 132 | 30019 | 12688 | 519 | 7/37 |
| Kapil Dev | India | 131 | 27740 | 12867 | 434 | 9/83 |
| Richard Hadlee | New Zealand | 86 | 21918 | 9611 | 431 | 9/52 |
| SM Pollock | South Africa | 108 | 24353 | 9733 | 421 | 7/87 |
| Wasim Akram | Pakistan | 104 | 22627 | 9779 | 414 | 7/119 |
| Curtly Ambrose | West Indies | 98 | 22103 | 8501 | 405 | 8/45 |