England's Harry Kane wins World Cup Golden Boot

AFP  |  Moscow 

England's won award as top scorer with six goals.

The Tottenham star topped the chart by two goals ahead of a group including and Kylian Mbappe, who both scored in France's 4-2 defeat of in today's final.

Kane is the first England to win the coveted prize since 32 years ago.

He scored twice against in England's first match in and then bagged a hat-trick in a 6-1 romp against

rested Kane for the third group game against but the returned to score from the penalty spot against in the last 16.

He failed to add to his tally in England's next three games -- the 2-0 quarter-final win over Sweden, the 2-1 semi-final loss to nor the 2-0 third-place play-off defeat by

Joining Griezmann and Mbappe on the four-goal mark were Russia's Denis Cheryshev, Portugal's and Belgium's Romelu Lukaku. top scorers:

6 goals: Kane (ENG) - winner

4 goals: Cheryshev (RUS), Ronaldo (POR), Griezmann (FRA), Lukaku (BEL), Mbappe (FRA) 3 goals: Cavani (Uruguay), Costa (Spain), Dzyuba (Russia), E.

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First Published: Mon, July 16 2018. 00:05 IST