- Younis Khan (50), a veteran of 214 one day internationals in a career spanning 11 years played in just his ninth World cup match and scored his first World cup fifty.
- Three Pakistani batsmen scored fifties in the match and all other batsmen all scored in single digits.
- Umar Akmal top scored for Pakistan with 71 on his World cup debut match. This also is his seventh one day fifty.
- Shahid Afridi (5-16) claimed his fourth five wicket haul in limited overs cricket and his first in World cups as well.
- Kamran Akmal’s 55 is the first fifty by a Pakistani wicket keeper in World cups after Moin Khan in the 1999 edition.
- This is just the second instance of Pakistan posting a 300+ score in a World cup match in the last 6 editions. The last time they scored more than 300 runs team total was in 2007.
- Kenyan team conceded a total of 46 extras in the match, the fourth maximum conceded by a team in a World Cup match. In the process, Kenya clinched the record of most wides in a World cup match (37).
- Shahid Afridi adds to the list of first time captains in a World cup match in this edition.
– Sharath