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