1. Ricky Ponting had an interesting and uncharacteristic stint in the middle as he didn’t score even a single boundary in his 36 ball 28 runs. He was the only batsman in the entire match to have scored 10 runs or more and didn’t score a single boundary.
2. Ricky Ponting is now the only Australian to appear in 5 world cups starting from 1996 till this edition.
3. Graeme Cremer (37) the highest scorer for Zimbabwe in the match came into bat at number 9.
4. Cremer was also the most economical of the Zimbabwe (1-41 in 10 overs)
5. Shaun Tait (2-34) has extended his good run in World cups and he has now claimed 25 wickets in 12 matches. Outside World cups, Tait has claimed 28 wickets in 17 matches, a relatively lesser success rate compared to his World cup record.
6. Mitchell Johnson (4-19) who made his limited overs debut more than 5 years back played his first World cup match and claimed 4 wickets as well. Johnson now joins Munaf Patel (India) and Bennett (New Zealand) as leading wicket takers of this tournament so far.
7. Sachin Tendulkar (37 World cup matches) and Ricky Ponting (40 World cup matches) are the only batsmen to have played in more than 35 matches in World cups in this edition and both were run out after scoring 28 runs in their respective matches, now.
8. Michael Clarke (58*) has now scored fifties in his last 3 one day internationals.
9. Shane Watson (79) has now scored fifties in 3 of his last 4 one day internationals.
10. Australia’s 262 is the lowest score the first innings score set by Test playing nations so far in this edition.
11. Jason Krejza, played his first World cup match, and only his second one day international at an age of 28 and returned with the second bets bowling figures in the match with 2-28.

– Sharath