1. Contrary to the previous World cup match played by South Africa (against India), in which there were five half centurions and a centurion, there was only one half centurion in this match, Duminy, who missed his century by a run.
2. Dale Steyn who became the fifth South African bowler to capture five wickets in an innings in a World Cup match in the previous match, was the only South African bowler who didn’t claim a wicket, though he just bowled 4 overs.
3. Jack Kallis (19) has scored just 109 runs in his 5 innings in this World cup, joining the list of under scoring five World cup veterans such as Chanderpaul (West Indies) and Ponting (Australia).
4. All Irish bowlers who bowled more than 5 overs were among the wickets.
5. Interestingly, the last 2 opponents of Ireland (West Indies and now South Africa) have both conceded just 4 runs as an extra in terms of a wide.
6. Van Wyk claimed four catches in the match for South Africa.
7. J. Kallis has been run out for three times in World cup matches now, the most by a South African.
8. Duminy’s 99 is his first World cup fifty. He has scored six fifties and a hundred in his last 16 innings, all as a middle order batsman.

– Sharath

1. Shahid Afridi (1-33) is continuing to be the leading wicket taker in this edition with 16 wickets overall. Prior to this edition, he had claimed just 7 wickets in 12 world cup matches.
2. Afridi however is continuing to have a disappointing World up with the bat as he has scored just 188 runs in 16 World cup innings.
3. In contract to Pakistan’s previous match in which 15 sixes were scored overall (against New Zealand), no sixes were scored in this match.
4. Umar Gul, for the second consecutive match claimed 3 wickets and has claimed 10 wickets overall in his 5 matches in this World cup edition so far.
5. Abdur Razzaq, who gave away 49 runs in 4 overs in his previous match, came back strongly with 1-24 in 7 overs..
6. Craig Ervine (52) scored his second World cup half century in this edition, becoming the 12^th Zimbabwean to achieve the feat.
7. Asad Shafiq’s unbeaten 78is his highest score in one day internationals.
8. Mohammed Hafeez (49) missed out on his first half century in 11 matches this year. He has just one hundred in his last 11 innings and has scored less than 100 runs in this World cup so far, being an opening batsman.

– Sharath

1. Bangladesh registered their first consecutive wins in this tournament.
2. Netherlands have now lost all their 5 matches.
3. Shafiul Islam was the only Bangladesh bowler who was not among the wickets, though he was the most economical giving away just 15 runs in his 9.3 overs.
4. Tamim Iqbal scored his second duck of the tournament. He has now scored as many as 10 ducks in his 94 innings career so far.
5. Doeschate scored 50 or more runs after a gap of 3 matches, since his 119 against England in the first match. This is his third World cup fifty and ninth overall in his career.
6. There were as many as four run outs in the Netherlands innings (E. Szwarczynski, Tom Cooper, P. Borren and Adeel Raja) which is just the tenth instance in a World cup match.
7. Shahriar Nafees reached a milestone of 2000+ runs in one day internationals, becoming the fifth Bangladesh batsman reach the landmark.
8. Imrul Kayes’ unbeaten 73 is the highest individual score by a Bangladeshi opening batsman in a World Cup match. The previous best was in the same edition (70 by Tamim Iqbal against India at Dhaka earlier in the tournament).
9. Adeel Raja played his first World cup match in this edition. This is his third World cup appearance for the Netherlands. He went wicket-less. His last wicket in a World cup match was in 2003 when he claimed 4-42 against Namibia.

– Sharath