1. New Zealand team has qualified for the semi final in two World cup tournaments in a row, now.
2. Tim Southee (1-44) has now claimed 67 wickets in 50 matches. He is also the joint third leading wicket taker in the tournament with 15 wickets.
3. New Zealand has scored just three sixes in their last 2 matches. New Zealand scored more than 12 sixes in each of their earlier 2 matches.
4. Ross Taylor has scored 14 sixes in his last 4 matches, and is still the leading scorer of sixes in the tournament.
5. Robin Peterson (1-49) has is the joint leading wicket taker (with Tim Southee of New Zealand) in the tournament.
6. New Zealand has scored 28 sixes and only ten sixes have been scored against them, in their last four matches.
7. Ross Taylor has now scored 288 runs in his last 4 matches in this World cup.  Interestingly, prior to the last 4 matches, he had scored just 114 runs in his 7 World cup innings.
8. Imran Tahir (2-32) has claimed 14 wickets in the tournament so far playing just 5 matches.
9. Jesse Ryder (83) scored his fifth career fifty and his first in World cups. He also reached a landmark of 1000 one day runs in this match in 29 innings and he has already accumulated 30 sixes so far.
10. Jesse Ryder was the only half centurion in the match.
11. The most experienced of the New Zealand bowlers, Vettori was the only bowler who was not among the wickets in this match.
12. Nathan McCullum (3-24), prior to this match had claimed just 5 wickets in 6 matches in this tournament.

– Sharath