5 batsmen with most runs in ODI finals

#4 Adam Gilchrist - 1163 runs

Adam Gilchrist was the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2002

Between 1998 and 2008, Adam Gilchrist played 33 finals for Australia and scored 1,163 runs at an average of 37.51.

The Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2002, Gilchrist scored 16 ODI tons and three of them were scored in deciders.

Gilchrist, in an ODI career that lasted 12 years, played his most memorable final innings in the 2007 ICC World Cup.

Playing with a squash ball stuffed inside his glove, Gilchrist hit 13 fours and eight sixes from just 104 balls to score 149, the fastest hundred in the history of cup finals.

Australia beat Sri Lanka by 53 runs by the Duckworth-Lewis method at Bridgetown to complete a hat-trick of World Cup titles.