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