1. West Indies have lost two consecutive matches in Chennai, both chasing a total less than 300.
2. Zaheer Khan (3-26) has now claimed 15 wickets in the tournament so far and is now the second leading wicket-taker in this tournament, behind Afridi’s 17 wickets.
3. India lost its last seven wickets for just 50 runs. While West Indies lost their last seven for just 39 runs.
4. Ravi Rampaul (5-51) in his first World cup match claimed his career best figures and his first career five wicket haul.
5. Rampaul has claimed 9 wickets in four matches against India in one-dayers.
6. R. Ashwin and Suresh Raina made their World cup debuts for India. Both were among the wickets.
7. Wicket-keepers in the match had their personal revenge. Dhoni was stumped by Thomas and Thomas was in turn stumped by Dhoni.
8. Suleiman Benn has now opened the bowling for the West Indies in all their six matches.
9. Darren Sammy in just his tenth completed match as captain of the West Indies has won just five of those matches in charge and which includes just 2 wins against a Test playing nation.
10. In the last three matches West Indies has played, six or more of the 20 batsmen dismissed were bowled.
11. Indian’s 268 is the highest score recorded in the four matches played in Chennai in this World cup.
12. Benn, who was once among the leading wicket takers has not been among the wickets in the last 2 matches.
13. Keiron Pollard’s wicket of Yuvraj Singh was just his second in this World cup. It has been more than a year since Pollard completed his full quota of 10 overs in an one day match, which he was able to complete in this match.
14. Yuvraj Singh’s 113 is his 13^th career 100 and his first in this tournament. He has already scored three fifties in this tournament. He has also claimed 9 wickets in this tournament so far.
15. Virat Kohli (59) scored his thirteenth limited overs half century already. He has now scored 50 or more runs in an innings on 18 occasions of his 48 innings career so far. He also averages 46 in his 51 match career so far.
16. As many as 12 batsmen were dismissed in single digit scores in this match.

– Sharath

1. Craig Ervine (66) scored his third World cup half century in this edition.
2. Zimbabwe’s whopping 161 run victory margin is their second in terms of win by over 100 runs in a World cup match. They have achieved both their highest margin victories in this edition (against Canada and Kenya respectively).
3. Taibu scored his second fifty in the tournament.
4. All Zimbabwean bowlers were among the wickets in the match.
5. Thomas Odoyo, who opened the bowling for Kenya in all its matches in this tournament didn’t bowl even a single over in this match.
6. The match ended the international career of Kenya’s Steve Tikolo, who along with Odoyo is the only player to have appeared in five World cups for Kenya starting from the 1996 edition.
7. Kenya now joins the Netherlands as the only teams to have lost all their matches in this tournament.

- Sharath

1. Pakistan becomes the first team to break the Australia’s world cup win juggernaut of 34 wins. Incidentally Pakistan was the last side to beat Australia in a world cup game, this was in 1999.
2. Shahid Afridi (1-34) is continuing to be the leading wicket taker in this edition with 17 wickets overall. Prior to this edition, he had claimed just 7 wickets in 12 world cup matches.
3. Afridi (2) however is continuing to have a disappointing World up with the bat as he has scored just 190 runs in 17 World cup innings.
4. Umar Akmal and Brad Haddin were the only batsmen to have scored sixers in this match.
5. Umar Gul (3-30), for the third consecutive match claimed 3 wickets and has claimed 13 wickets overall in his 6 matches in this World cup edition so far.
6. Abdur Razzaq, who gave away 49 runs in 4 overs in Pakistan’s fourth match in this edition has since then  come back strongly and in the last 2 matches, has given away just 32 runs in 11 overs and has claimed 3 wickets as well. He is also the fourth leading wicket taker in the tournament (joint with Baidwan and Kemar Roach).
7. Asad Shafiq has scored 124 runs in his last 2 innings.
8. Mohammed Hafeez (5) has just one hundred in his last 12 innings and has scored less than 110 runs in this World cup so far, being an opening batsman.
9. Ricky Ponting has scored just 102 runs in five innings in this World cup edition which includes just eight hits 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.
10. Shaun Tait had a rare match in recent times in which he went wicketless. He has claimed 33 wickets in 17 World cup matches.
11. Mitchell Johnson (1-40) has claimed 10 wickets in six matches in this World cup, which includes 8 wickets in his first 2 matches.
12. Both the Australian new ball bowlers have 30 plus wickets in World cups alone – Lee (34) and Tait (33).

– Sharath

1. Bangladesh registered their second team score below 100 in this tournament.
   1. Both the low scores were in Mirpur
   2. On both the occasions Bangladesh batted second
   3. Bangladesh now joins Canada, Ireland and Namibia among the teams to be dismissed below 100 twice in World cup matches.
2. Shafiul Islam, for the second consecutive match was the only Bangladesh bowler who was not among the wickets, this time he was the most expensive bowler in the whole match with 44 runs scored of his 5 overs.
3. Shakib Al Hassan was the only Bangladesh batsman to score in double digits.  He was dismissed with the team score on 61 in which he had scored almost half the runs (30).
4. Jack Kallis (69) improved his World cup batting record in this edition. Prior to this match, he had 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).
5. Du Plessis scored his first World cup fifty and the second of his career.
6. Interestingly, Jack Kallis has scored exactly 69 on both the fifty plus knocks he had in this tournament. Both the fifties have been scored against Sub continent teams – India and Bangladesh (69)
7. Hashim Amla (51) has now scored fifty or more runs in an innings on seven ix of his last 13 one day innings.
8. Robin Peterson (4-12) has quickly risen as the second leading wicket taker (joint with Tim Southee of New Zealand) in the tournament.
9. South Africa have now won 8 matches by a margin of more than 100 runs in all World cups and are on level with Australia in this record.
10. Kallis now joins Tendulkar, Gibbs and Ponting among batsmen to have scored ten or more World cup fifties.
11. Imran Tahir (1-20) has claimed 12 wickets in the tournament so far playing just 4 matches.
12. Tsotsobe and Wayne Parnell played their first World cup match.
13. Tsotsobe (3-14) has now claimed 39 wickets in his 20 one dayers and he has had just one wicket-less match in his career so far.

Sharath