- Hashim Amla scored his first World cup ton in just his second match and the 8th hundred overall in his one day career.
- Unlike the previous match, South Africa began their bowling with two regular fast bowlers. J. Botha didn’t play in this match as well.
- AB DeVilliers (134) scored his third World cup hundred and a second consecutive hundred in this edition. This ton is also the eleventh of his limited overs career, overall.
- Imran Tahir (3-19), who became the first South African since the 1992 World cup to make his career debut in a World cup match has now claimed 7 wickets in his first two matches.
- Jack Kallis(2) is not having the best of starts in this World cup and has scored just 6 runs in the first two matches in this edition so far. Interestingly, in his last 10 innings he has not scored in double figures only thrice including the last 2 matches and this sequence of matches included five knocks over fifty.
- Ryan ten Doeschate, who scored a career best 119 against England earlier in this tournament, claimed his best bowling figures in World cups (3-72 in this match).
- As many as three Dutch bowlers gave away more than 70 runs.
- JP Duminy (40*) for the second consecutive match remained unbeaten in the forties. He has now scored 82 runs in two matches, facing just 68 deliveries and has hit three fours and four sixes.
– Sharath