1. Pakistan and Australia remain the only teams so far to have won both their opening encounters.
2. Younis Khan (72), in his tenth World cup match followed his first World cup fifty in the previous match with another fifty plus knock in this match.
3. Younis Khan and Misbah Ul Haq both scored half centuries in two matches in a row so far in this edition.
4. Shoiab Akhtar (2-42) has now claimed 29 wickets in 18 World cup matches. Both his dismissals in the match were dismissed “Bowled”. 85 of his 246 wickets in one day cricket (more than one-third) have been “Bowled” dismissals.
5. Shahid Afridi (4-34) claimed his third four wicket haul in limited overs cricket and is also now the leading wicket taker in this edition with 9 wickets overall. Prior to this edition, he had claimed just 7 wickets in 12 world cup matches so far.
6. Pakistan leaked 29 runs as extras in contrast to just 9 runs as extras from the Sri Lankan team.
7. Sri Lanka as a team managed to score just 2 sixes for the second consecutive World cup match.
8. Chamara Silva (57) scored his fifth fifty in World cup cricket and twelfth of his 65 match limited overs career so far. He scored his fifty coming into bat at number 6 and scored the lone fifty for Sri Lanka in the match.

– Sharath

1. Tamim Iqbal (44) top scored for Bangladesh for the second consecutive match in this World cup. He has now managed to score a fifty in consecutive world cup matches against India. He scored 51 in the previous edition against India. Interestingly on both the occasions he was dismissed by Munaf Patel.
2. Bangladesh had a relatively quieter batting opposition in terms of the number of sixes scored relative to their first match against India in which seven sixes were scored against them. KJ O’Brien scored the solitary sixer for Ireland in the entire match.
3. Shafiul Islam who didn’t exactly have an auspicious start to his World cup campaign, with an expensive 1-69 in 7 overs had a reversal of fortunes with a match-winning 4-21 in 8 overs.
4. Tamim Iqbal has now scored 114 runs in the first 2 matches of this edition. Overall he has scored just 286 runs in 11 matches at an average of 26.
5. Mohammed Ashraful returned to the Bangladesh team and came into bat at number 7. This is just the second instance in which Ashraful batted at number 7 in his career spanning 10 years and 165 matches.
6. The O’Brien brothers top scored for Ireland with Niall scoring 38 and Kevin scoring 37.
7. Ed Joyce become the sixth cricketer to represent two countries in the annals of limited overs cricket (Ireland and England).  Others include – Kepler Wessels (Australia and South Africa, Clayton Lambert (USA and the Wes Indies), Anderson Cummins (Canada and West Indies), Dougie Brown (England and Scotland), and Eoin Morgan (Scotland and England).
8. AR White played his 50^th limited overs match, becoming the second Irish player to achieve the feat, joining Kevin O’Brien.
9. Ashraful claimed his only wickets in World cups. He has also claimed 17 wickets in his limited overs career so far.
10. Shafiul Islam’s four wicket haul is already his fourth in 25 matches. His overall wickets tally stands at 37.

1. Ricky Ponting (12) has so far scored just 40 runs in this World cup edition that included just one hit to the boundary and he has faced 64 deliveries for those runs as well. Quite an uncharacteristic beginning to the Australian captain, this World cup.
2. Ponting also was dismissed in a bizarre fashion, stumped to a fast bowler (Southee).
3. Shaun Tait (3-35) continues to have a good run in World cups and has now claimed 28 wickets in 13 matches. Outside World cups, Tait has claimed the equal amount of wickets (28) in 17 matches. He has now claimed 5 wickets in this World cup edition so far.
4. Mitchell Johnson (4-33) has now claimed 4 wickets in each of his first two World cup matches, which makes him the leading wicket-taker in the tournament so far with 8 wickets for just 52 runs. Johnson also becomes only the third Australian bowler to claim four or more wickets in consecutive World cup matches, others in the list being Gary Gilmour and Shane Warne.
5. With more than 400 runs scored, the match overall witnessed a rare sequence of a lone spinner claiming just 1 of the 13 wickets that fell in the match overall (Smith : 1 – 44).
6. Shane Watson (62) has now scored fifties in 4 of his last 5 one day internationals. Watson also scored the only sixer in the entire match.
7. Hamish Bennett and Tim Southee were once again the only New Zealand bowlers among the wickets. They claimed all the three Australian wickets between them and the duo along with Oram claimed all 10 Kenyan wickets in just 13.5 overs between them in the previous match.
8. Hamish Bennett has now claimed 20 wickets in 10 one day internationals.
9. Australia almost had history repeat when a lower order batsman top scoring against them. Cremer (Zimbabwe) top scored coming in at number 9 in their previous match, while Nathan McCullum top scored for New Zealand with a 52, coming in to bat at number 8.
10. MG Johnson is the third Australian bowler to capture four or more wickets in consecutive games after GJ Gilmour and SK Warne
11. This half century is also Nathan’s career third and the three have been scored this year.
12. Michael Clarke achieved a career millstone of  6000 runs in limited overs cricket, becoming the ninth Australian to enter this bracket.