1. The result is just the fourth tied one dayer in the annals of World cup. South Africa (twice), Australia, Sri Lanka and now India and England have been involved once in a tied one dayer in a World cup event.
2. Interestingly now, all World cups starting from the 1999 edition have all had one tied World cup match.
3. England had made some sort of a comeback to correct their recent one day record in India. Prior to this match England has lost 11 of their last 12 one dayers in India.
4. Sachin Tendulkar (120) had plenty of records in this match:
   1. The first cricketer to score a World cup 100 in his sixth world cup edition.
   2. Scored his fifth World cup hundred
   3. The first batsman to have scored a hundred by playing in more than 445 one day internationals (he played his 446 one dayer).
   4. Scored his last hundred almost a year back, an unbroken record 200* against South Africa on 24^th Feb 2010.
   5. Scored his first World cup hundred against England and his third world cup 100 in the sub continent.
5. Virat Kohli (8), who scored his fifth limited overs career hundred in the previous match and has scored 50 or more runs in an innings on 17 occasions of his 44 innings career so far, came into bat at number 7, for the third time in his career.
6. Kohli played his first one dayer against England and has now played against nine cricketing sides in his 47 match one day career so far.
7. Munaf Patel (2-70) has now claimed 10 wickets in five world cup matches.
8. James Anderson has conceded 90 or more runs in one day matches twice in the same month now, (Feb 2011).
9. Tim Bresnan (5-48) was the most economical among the bowlers from both the sides considered with an economy rate of 4.8, while runs were scored in the match overall at 6.7 runs per over.
10. Bresnan’s five wicket haul is his first in his 37 match limited overs career so far. He has claimed just 46 career one day wickets. He has not claimed a five wicket haul in any form of cricket for England prior to this match (Test cricket, T20, etc).
11. This becomes the third consecutive one day match this year in which the Indian batsmen have scored have scored 7 or more sixes in their innings. Tendulkar, Dhoni and Yusuf Pathan scored all seven sixes between them in this match.
12. Yusuf Pathan has now scored 9 sixes in his last 3 one day innings.
13. Strauss (158) leapfrogged to the top of the leading run getters list n this World cup with 246 runs in 2 matches.
14. Strauss’s 100 is his sixth in one dayers and his first in World cup matches. This hundred is also his first against India. He has now managed to score four of his six one day hundreds against Sub continent sides (Pakistan, India and Bangladesh). He has scored his other two against the West Indies.
15. Paul Collingwood (1) managed to register his fifth single digit score in his last 11 one day innings.
16. India has now posted 300+ scores on two consecutive world cup matches.
17. James Anderson has now given 163 runs in this World cup edition of his 19.5 overs with the wicket of Tendulkar in this match, his only wicket so far.
18. Anderson has now dismissed Tendulkar three times in the 11 matches they have played against each other.
19. Piyush Chawla has played 8 of his 23 one dayers against England and has claimed 8 wickets, including his 2-71 in this match.

– Sharath