Match 6 – Kenya Vs Pakistan at Hambantota


  1. 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.
  2. Three Pakistani batsmen scored fifties in the match and all other batsmen all scored in single digits.
  3. Umar Akmal top scored for Pakistan with 71 on his World cup debut match. This also is his seventh one day fifty.
  4. Shahid Afridi (5-16) claimed his fourth five wicket haul in limited overs cricket and his first in World cups as well.
  5. Kamran Akmal’s 55 is the first fifty by a Pakistani wicket keeper in World cups after Moin Khan in the 1999 edition.
  6. 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.
  7. 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).
  8. Shahid Afridi adds to the list of first time captains in a World cup match in this edition.

– Sharath

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