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