Highest individual World Cup scores after South Africa captain AB de Villiers made 162 not out against the West Indies in a Pool B match at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday (innings, player, team, opponents, venue, date):  

215     Chris Gayle            West Indies v Zimbabwe,      Canberra          Feb 24 2015

188 no  Gary Kirsten           South Africa v UAE,          Rawalpindi        Feb 16 1996

183     Sourav Ganguly         India  v Sri Lanka,          Taunton           May 26 1999

181     Vivian Richards        West Indies v Sri Lanka,     Karachi           Oct 13 1987

175 no  Kapil Dev              India v Zimbabwe,            Tunbridge Wells   Jun 18 1983

175     Virender Sehwag        India v Bangladesh,          Dhaka             Feb 19 2011

172 no  Craig Wishart          Zimbabwe v Namibia,          Harare            Feb 10 2003

171 no  Glenn Turner           New Zealand v East Africa,   Birmingham        Jun 07 1975

162 no  AB de Villiers         South Africa v West Indies   Sydney            Feb 27 2015

161 no  Tillakaratne Dilshan   Sri Lanka v Bangladesh,      Melbourne         Feb 26 2015

161     Andrew Hudson          South Africa v Netherlands,  Rawalpindi        Mar 05 1996