1. Devon Smith (53) managed his first one day half century in one and a half years. This is also just his fourth half century in 34 matches.
2. The match witnessed a rare event of Chris Gayle outscored by his opening partner when the first wicket fell for the West Indies.
3. Suleiman Benn opened the bowling for the West Indies for the second consecutive match.
4. Chris Gayle (80) scored his 43^rd one day fifty. He fell one short of his 8000^th run in one day cricket. He has scored a half century almost after a gap of a year and has missed to score one in his last 10 matches.
5. Keiron Pollard (60) almost overhauled his career best one day score of 62. He scored four sixes in the match and has now scored 27 sixes in 31 innings of his career so far.
6. Darren Sammy in just his sixth completed match as captain of the West Indies has now won three of those matches in charge. All his wins as skipper have been against non test playing nations – Canada, Ireland and Netherlands.
7. West Indies for the second consecutive match didn’t concede a single wide in their 2 runs as extras conceded.
8. Kemar Roach (6-27) became the fourth bowler in the annals of the World cup to claim a hat-trick. This is Roach’s second career five wicket haul in 17 matches. He has claimed 33 wickets in his career so far.
9. Tom Cooper’s unbeaten 55 is already his 6^th half century in 12 matches. He has now scored 691 runs at an average of 69 with a hundred as well.

– Sharath

1. John Davison (aged 40 years), who was a revelation in the 2003 World cup and also Canada’s all-time leading run scorer managed second consecutive duck in this tournament and also went wicket-less for 56 runs in his 8 overs.
2. N.R. Kumar became the youngest cricketer to represent a country in World cup matches (aged 16).
3. Surkari, who came into bat at number 7 was the top scorer for Canada with 26.
4. W.D. Balaji Rao claimed his career best bowling figures with 4-47 in this match. Prior to this match he had claimed just 3 wickets in 5 matches. He became the second Canadian bowler to claim four or more wickets in the World Cup behind A Codrington’s 5 for 27 against Bangladesh in the 2003 edition.
5. Taibu (98) scored his 17^th limited overs half century.
6. Ervine managed just his second half century in 16matches.
7. Wicket-keepers had contrasting fortunes in this game, interestingly:
   1. Taibu – 98 runs with the bat and two stumpings
   2. Bagai – Dismissed for no score and claimed three catches
8. Cremer claimed his 50th one day wicket and became the 15th Zimbabwean bowler to achieve the landmark in one-dayers.
9. Zimbabwe’s whopping 175 run victory margin is their first in terms of win by over 100 runs in a World cup match.
10. Canada’s AS Hansra and John Davison were the only bowlers in the entire match to have given more than 6 runs an over. They gave away 97 runs in 12 overs between them.

– Sharath