1. The match witnessed just two half centurions (Porterfield and Yuvraj Singh).
2. Virender Sehwag for three consecutive matches in a row has opened the scoring with a boundary.
3. As many as 8 Irish bowlers were involved in the 46 overs they bowled to India.
4. Till Yousuf Pathan hit 3 sixes between overs 41 and 45, the Indian innings did not have any sixer scored, uncharacteristically. Prior to this match, the Indian batsmen had scored 7 or more sixes in their innings on three consecutive instances.
5. Sachin Tendulkar (38) played just his second one dayer against Ireland in his illustrious career of 447 matches and also posted his highest score against them.
6. Kohli played his first one dayer against Ireland and has now played against ten cricketing sides in his 48 match one day career so far.
7. When Munaf Patel dismissed Johnston as the last Irish wicket, he extended his good run in World cups overall with 11 wickets in six World cup matches.
8. Yusuf Pathan has now scored 12 sixes in his last 4 one day innings.
9. Yuvraj Singh’s 5-31 is his first five wicket haul and also becomes the first cricketer to achieve the feat of five wickets and a fifty in a World cup match.
10. Yuvraj Singh scored his second consecutive fifty and has scored just three half centuries in his last 10 innings, though.
11. Zaheer Khan had yet another 3 wicket haul in Bangalore and has claimed 8 wickets in the tournament so far.
12. George Dockrell (2-49) has been among wickets consistently and has claimed 12 wickets in his last 6 international matches.
13. Trent Johnston (2-16) has claimed 2 wickets in each of the matches he has played in this World cup edition so far.

– Sharath

1. The victory for England is their first in three World cup matches.
2. It took almost just the half the runs they scored against India and Ireland to win the match, in a different venue, though (Chennai).
3. Chennai has been a witness to low scoring matches in this World cup edition so far and no team has scored more than 175.
4. Anderson’s middle innings two wicket burst that was part of his 2-16 in 6 overs is his most economical spell in the four World cup matches he has played. He has now given 228 runs in this World cup edition of his 34 overs with just 4 wickets.
5. Trott (52) scored his third half century in this tournament.
6. South Africa lost its last seven wickets for just 41 runs.
7. South Africa has now adopted a sinusoidal pattern in terms of their new ball bowling pair. They started with a spinner (Peterson) as they did with Botha in the first match. They began their bowling with two regular fast bowlers in their previous match against the Netherlands.
8. Imran Tahir (4-38), who became the first South African since the 1992 World cup to make his career debut in a World cup match has now, claimed 11 wickets in his first three matches. Tahir is now the second leading wicket taker in this tournament behind Afridi’s 14 wickets.
9. Jack Kallis (15) is not having the best of starts in this World cup and has scored just 21 runs in the first three matches in this edition so far.
10. Kallis is now the only senior batsman, who has played in all World cups since 1996 and has scored less than 25 runs in three innings.
11. Hashim Amla who scored more than 25% of the South Africa’s aggregate in the match has now scored fifty or more runs in an innings on five of his last 10 one day innings.
12. Strauss (0) failed to add on to his superior runs aggregate of 280 runs. However, he still remains the leading run getter in this tournament.
13. Stuart Broad’s 4-15 is his ninth four wicket haul in 76 matches. He has now claimed 130 wickets.

– Sharath

1. Ricky Ponting could not add to his tally of just 40 runs in this World cup edition which includes just one hit to the boundary and remains in the bottom of the list if batsmen with more than four World cup appearances, in terms of the runs scored.
2. Shaun Tait (1-23) continues to have a good run in World cups and has now claimed 29 wickets in 14 matches. Outside World cups, Tait has claimed almost the equal amount of wickets (28) in 17 matches. He has now claimed 6 wickets in this World cup edition so far.
3. This match is seventh instance of a no result match in a World cup and the first one for Australia.
4. Ponting also suffered an unexpended end in his 24 World cup matches winning streak.

– Sharath