1. Mahela Jayawardene (100) scored just his second World cup hundred in 25 appearances.  This was also his 13^th One day international hundred.
2. Sri Lanka are without the services of Sanath Jayasuriya for the first instance in the last few world cup editions. Jayasuriya has now missed two records which Tendulkar has managed to achieve:
   1. Most capped one day international player (445 matches)
   2. Leveling the record of most appearing in most editions of the world cup (6).
3. Sri Lanka as a team managed to score just 2 sixes in their massive total of 332 and interestingly Canada scored 2 sixes as well as part of their team total of 122 all out.
4. Khurram Chohan emulated Shafiul Islam (Bangladesh) and Sreesanth (India) in a new ball bowler being the most expensive bowler in their respective sides in their first world cup matches. Khurram conceded 62 runs of his 8 overs.
5. John Davison (aged 40 years), who was a revelation in the 2003 World cup and also Canada’s all-time leading run scorer had a poor match as he didn’t score any runs opening the batting. However, he claimed 2 wickets and extended his tag as Canada’s third leading wicket taker in one day cricket – 33 wickets in 36 matches.
6. As many as 5 Sri Lankan players were playing in their first World cup matches – Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Saramwareera, Thisera Perera, Angelo Matthews and Chamara Kapugedera
7. Muralitharan (playing in his 32^nd World cup match already) with 2 wickets in the match has now claimed 55 World cup wickets.
8. TG Gordon became the 71^st cricketer to represent Canada in limited overs internationals also the 29^th to make his debut in a world cup match.
9. Today’s match marks an interesting instance of three wicket-keeper captains being involved in within the first 3 matches of the World cup – Dhoni (India), Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) and Bagai (Canada).

– Sharath