World Cup 2019: Top 5 players who can help New Zealand win the tournament

#3 Martin Guptill

Martin Guptill

Martin Guptill has been one of the mainstays of New Zealand's batting line-up in one-day international cricket over the years. A prolific opener, Guptill has consistently been among the runs in ODIs and has played many scintillating knocks in his career.

Guptill has played 169 ODI matches in which he has accumulated 6440 runs, making him the fourth highest run-getters in ODIs for New Zealand. He has 16 centuries and 34 fifties to his name. Also, he is the first New Zealander to score a double century in an ODI.

Guptill has represented New Zealand in the last two editions of the world cup and he has performed really well for his team. In 2011, he scored 262 runs at an average of 43.66 and was the second highest run-scorer for the team after Ross Taylor. He bettered his performance in 2015 when he topped the charts by smashing 547 runs from 9 matches. This included a double-century in the quarter-final and his 237* remains the highest individual score in World Cup cricket.

He has been in a superb form in recent times and his back-to-back centuries against Bangladesh in the recently concluded series is a testimony to that. No doubt, Guptill will be playing a key role in New Zealand's World Cup dream.