1. Tillekaratne Dilshan’s sixer in the match is the solitary hit beyond the boundary that Sri Lanka has managed in their last two matches. Interestingly, they have scored  470 runs in just 68.4 overs at 6.87 runs per over in their last 2 matches.
2. Sri Lanka which lost its first wicket after 282 runs on board lost their next five wickets for just 45 runs.
3. Dilshan scored his first World cup hundred in 14 innings and ninth of his career overall. He now tops the highest run aggregate in this World cup with 283 runs in 5 matches.
4. Upul Tharanga (133) scored his 10^th limited overs career century and his first in 16 World cup innings.
5. Muralitharan (playing in his 35^th World cup match already) has been among the wickets in all matches in this World cup so far and his overall tally of wickets in World cups is now at 60.
6. Brendan Taylor (80) scored his 21^st career half century. This is his first score over fifty in his last 0 innings.
7. Interestingly, both the teams posted more than 100 runs opening wicket partnerships.
8. Chris Mpofu’s four wicket is the second of his career and he has claimed 60 wickets so far in 52 matches.
9. The last Zimbabwean before Mpofu bowler to claim a four wicket haul in a World cup match was by Neil Johnson in the 1999 edition.
10. Sri Lanka now joins India and England as the only sides to have posted 300 plus team totals on two occasions in this World cup edition so far
11. Dilshan became the first cricketer to achieve the feat of scoring a hundred and claiming four wickets in a world cup match.

– Sharath