1. Zaheer Khan (2-53) has now claimed 17 wickets in the tournament so far and is now the second leading wicket-taker in this tournament, behind Afridi’s 21 wickets.
2. Yuvraj Singh’s 57 is his 49^th career fifty and his fourth in this tournament. He is now the fourth leading run scorer in this tournament with 341 runs. He has also claimed 11 wickets in this tournament so far.
3. Brad Haddin (53) scored his fourth fifty in this tournament.
4. Sachin Tendulkar (53) moved back to the top spot in terms of leading run scorers in this tournament with 379 runs in 7 matches so far. This is also his 94^th fifty.
5. Interestingly opening batsmen from both the sides, who didn’t take the first strike scored exactly 53 runs – Haddin and Tendulkar.
6. Ricky Ponting (104) scored his 30^th limited overs ton, fifty in World cups and sixth against India. Interestingly, prior to this match, Ricky Ponting has scored just 102 runs in five innings in this tournament which included just eight hits to the boundary. He also remained in the bottom of the list if batsmen with more than four World cup appearances, in terms of the runs scored.
7. Ashwin has claimed 2 wickets in each of the World cup matches he has played in this edition so far. He has been among the wickets in all the nine matches he has played in his career so far.
8. Sachin Tendulkar got a chance to bowl couple of overs in this match. The last time Sachin bowled in an one dayer was also against Australia in November 2009. The last time he bowled 2 overs in an one dayer was in 2008.
9. Shaun Tait (1-52) finished this World cup with 34 wickets in 18 career World cup matches.
10. Mitchell Johnson finished this World cup with a wicketless performance and overall just 10 wickets in seven matches in this World cup, which includes 8 wickets in his first 2 matches.
11. Both the Australian new ball bowlers have 30 plus wickets in World cups alone – Lee (35) and Tait (34).
12. Zaheer Khan has kind of made an habit of striking a wicket very early in his second spell, in this tournament:
    1. Ian Bell and Andrew Strauss – England
    2. Devon Smith – West Indies
    3. Michael Hussey – Australia, in this match.
13. Some milestones in this match:
    1. Zaheer Khan – 40 World cup wickets
    2. Tendulkar

i.      First batsman in the annals of the game to score 18000 or more runs

ii.      14^th World cup fifty

14. This is the second instance in which a Ponting hundred in a World cup match in the sub continent ended up in the losing cause (the first instance was against the West Indies in 1996).

– Sharath