Records have this wonderful capacity to egg on a person to give their best in whatever they are doing. Cricket is one sport where one can get to see thrill, excitement and action on the field. With so many matches being played these days, it is inevitable that some or the other cricket records will be made while these matches are being played. The cricket world cup is scheduled to begin in a few days and this has made fans all the more excited about it. Already, there is a speculation going around in cricketing circles about who will win the title and which teams do not have a chance.

There are several cricket records at stake during the world cup and all players will try their outmost to break those records and get their names enacted in the record books. The cricket records for world cup are different from the cricket records of any other tournament which are played in the cricket world. The simple reason for that is the world cup is a prestigious event which happens after every four years. Well, you cannot club together world cup record with any other cricketing event.

As far as batting records are concerned, Sachin Tendulkar of India holds the record for scoring the maximum number of runs. This is one cricket record that many players will be eyeing during this world cup. Well, which player would not like their name against the highest number of runs cored in the tournament? This time also Sachin is playing in the world cup, may be he can retain this record or set a new one, by scoring more runs then he has earlier done or may be we will see some new player emerging and writing his name in the record book. Well we will have to wait for just about more then a month to know all this besides many other things.

There are some cricket fans that are more statistically inclined and want to have an in-depth knowledge about all the statistics that are connected to the game. There are various sources through which one can find out the statistics that they want to know. Newspapers and magazines are not always a very good option for you. Well chances are there that you may not be able to buy that particular issue of the newspaper or magazine. Then you can miss out on getting to know all those records and statistics. The web is an easy option for you to get rid of this problem.

There are several sites on the web that are dedicated to the game of cricket. In such sites one can find all the statistics and cricket records that that they want to know. That is not all; fans can actually take a print out of the cricket records and keep it with them for reference purposes. Also the cricket records on these sites are updates on a regular basis, so you will come to know about every cricket record that is being made by the players.