1. Bangladesh registered their first win in this tournament.
2. England becomes the first among the leading sides to lose two matches in this tournament.
3. Anderson had yet another expensive return in a World cup match middle He has now given 282 runs in this World cup edition of his 43 overs with just 4 wickets.
4. All Bangladeshi bowlers were among the wickets in the match.
5. Shafiul Islam bowled the first ball of the match, claimed the last wicket and was involved in a vital 58 run ninth wicket partnership with Mahmudullah to seal Bangladesh’s victory. Shafiul also scored the only sixer in the match.
6. Trott (67) scored his fourth half century in this tournament. He is also the fifth leading run scorer in the tournament with 289 runs.
7. Strauss (18) had yet another failure, but he is still the fourth leading run scorer of the tournament so far with 298 runs.
8. Eoin Morgan (63) scored a fifty on his World cup debut. He also became the fourth batsman in World Cup cricket to represent two countries. He represented Ireland and England. Others in the list include Kepler Wessels (Australia and South Africa); Anderson Cummins (West Indies and Canada) and Ed Joyce (England and Ireland).

– Sharath

1. Suleiman Benn has now opened the bowling for the West Indies in all four three matches.
2. Darren Sammy in just his eighth completed match as captain of the West Indies has now won five of those matches in charge. This win is his second against a Test playing nation.
3. West Indies have conceded just 4 runs as an extra in terms of a wide in their last four matches.
4. Suleiman Benn’s 4 – 53 in this match is his second four wicket haul in the tournament. He is now the joint second leading wicket taker in this World cup edition with 12 wickets.
5. Keiron Pollard (94) registered his highest one day score and has scored the maximum number of sixes (9) in this tournament so far.
6. Devon Smith (107) registered his first limited overs century in 34 innings. He is also West Indies leading run scorer in this tournament with 202 runs and tenth overall.
7. Smith and Pollard scored 201 of the total 275 runs posted by West Indies in the match.
8. Andre Russell made his debut in this match and claimed the wicket if the Irish top scorer (Ed Joyce for 84). He became the first West Indian to debut in a World cup match after Pollard in 2007.
9. Darren Sammy played his 50^th limited overs match.
10. Seven batsmen of the 20 wickets in the match were dismissed bowled.
11. Kevin O’Brien’s 4 for 71 in this match is the second four wicket haul by an Irish bowler after Mooney’s 4 for 63 against England.
12. Kevin O’Brien reached a career milestone of 1500 runs and became the first Ireland batsman to reach the milestone.

– Sharath

1. Tillekaratne Dilshan’s sixer in the match is the solitary hit beyond the boundary that Sri Lanka has managed in their last two matches. Interestingly, they have scored  470 runs in just 68.4 overs at 6.87 runs per over in their last 2 matches.
2. Sri Lanka which lost its first wicket after 282 runs on board lost their next five wickets for just 45 runs.
3. Dilshan scored his first World cup hundred in 14 innings and ninth of his career overall. He now tops the highest run aggregate in this World cup with 283 runs in 5 matches.
4. Upul Tharanga (133) scored his 10^th limited overs career century and his first in 16 World cup innings.
5. Muralitharan (playing in his 35^th World cup match already) has been among the wickets in all matches in this World cup so far and his overall tally of wickets in World cups is now at 60.
6. Brendan Taylor (80) scored his 21^st career half century. This is his first score over fifty in his last 0 innings.
7. Interestingly, both the teams posted more than 100 runs opening wicket partnerships.
8. Chris Mpofu’s four wicket is the second of his career and he has claimed 60 wickets so far in 52 matches.
9. The last Zimbabwean before Mpofu bowler to claim a four wicket haul in a World cup match was by Neil Johnson in the 1999 edition.
10. Sri Lanka now joins India and England as the only sides to have posted 300 plus team totals on two occasions in this World cup edition so far
11. Dilshan became the first cricketer to achieve the feat of scoring a hundred and claiming four wickets in a world cup match.

– Sharath

1. Yuvraj Singh (51*) was the only half centurion for India in its last 2 matches. He has also now scored three consecutive fifties.
2. Virender Sehwag for four consecutive matches in a row has opened the scoring with a boundary. Sehwag is the third leading run scorer in the tournament with 254 runs in 4 innings.
3. Yousuf Pathan’s solitary sixer was only India’s only effort to clear the boundary in its entire innings.  He has now scored 26 sixes in his last 10 innings.
4. Sachin Tendulkar (27) played just his second one dayer against the Netherlands in his illustrious career of 448. Incidentally he also played his second match against Ireland in his previous match in this tournament.
5. Tendulkar also became the first batsman to score 2000 runs in World cup cricket alone.
6. Kohli played his first one dayer against the Netherlands and has now played against eleven cricketing sides in his 49 match one day career so far.
7. Ashish Nehra played a World cup match for India nearly after 8 years. His last World cup match was against Australia in March 2003.
8. Zaheer Khan had yet another 3 wicket haul, has claimed 11 wickets in the tournament so far and is now the third leading wicket-taker in this tournament.
9. Pieter Seelar claimed his fourth three wicket haul in 25 one dayers. This also is his second three wicket haul in three matches, both in Delhi.
10. India scored the final 111 runs after the fall of Yousuf Pathan’s wicket in 26.4 overs.
11. Ryan ten Doeschate after his 119 against England has scored just 29 more runs in his next three innings and is 15^th now among the leading run getters in the tournament and still the top Netherlands batsman in the list.
12. Yuvraj Singh (2-43) has claimed 7 wickets in his last 2 matches. He also claimed his 100th wicket in limited overs cricket. He is now the 49th cricketer to reach the all rounders double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets and the third Indian cricketer after Tendulkar and Ganguly.

– Sharath

1. With the defeat for Pakistan, now no team in this World cup has won all their matches so far.
2. Tim Southee (3-25) has now claimed 62 wickets in 47 matches.
3. Shahid Afridi (1-55) is continuing to be the leading wicket taker in this edition with 15 wickets overall. Prior to this edition, he had claimed just 7 wickets in 12 world cup matches.
4. Afridi, however is continuing to have a disappointing World up with the bat as he has scored just 185 runs in 15 World cup innings.
5. New Zealand hit a mammoth thirteen sixes including seven by Ross Taylor alone in contrast to just two sixes hit by Pakistan.
6. Umar Gul was the only Pakistan batsman who had a good match overall. He claimed three wickets, scored a career best unbeaten 34 and was involved in a 66 run ninth wicket partnership with Abdur Razzaq.
7. Martin Guptill’s 57 is his second and consecutive fifty in World cup matches and eleventh overall in his limited overs career.
8. Abdur Razzaq had an indifferent match. He gave away 49 runs at 12.25 runs per over and scored 62 runs (top score for Pakistan) of 74 deliveries coming into bat at number 8.
9. Ross Taylor, prior to his 131 in this match had scored just 114 runs in his 7 World cup innings.
10. Taylor’s 131 is also his career best one day score and his fourth ton.
11. Abdur Razzaq reached a milestone of 5000 one day international runs and in the process became the fourth cricketer to complete the all rounder’s double of 5000 plus runs and 250 or more wickets. He now joins Sanath Jayasuriya (13428 runs; 322 wickets), Shahid Afridi (6643 runs; 307 wickets), and Jack Kallis (11023 runs; 261 wickets).
12. Younis Khan’s duck is already his 20^th in 210 innings of his career.

– Sharath

1. All Canadian bowlers who bowled five or more overs were among the wickets.
2. John Davison, who came into bat at number 7 scored his first run in almost 2 years with a first ball boundary, characteristically.
3. Henry Osinde’s 4-26 is his career best bowling figures in 37 one day matches. He managed to bowl is first quota of 10 overs after nearly three and a half years and 16 one dayers.
4. Jimmy Hansra’s effort of 70 with the bat is the highest score by a batsman in the entire match. This also is his first career half century in 11 matches.
5. Ashish Bagai (64*) scored his 15^th half century in 57 innings.
6. Thomas Odoyo, one of the few players in this tournament to have played in all World cups starting with the 1996 edition scored his first World cup 50 in 23 matches, also the eighth of his career.

– Sharath

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1. The match witnessed just two half centurions (Porterfield and Yuvraj Singh).
2. Virender Sehwag for three consecutive matches in a row has opened the scoring with a boundary.
3. As many as 8 Irish bowlers were involved in the 46 overs they bowled to India.
4. Till Yousuf Pathan hit 3 sixes between overs 41 and 45, the Indian innings did not have any sixer scored, uncharacteristically. Prior to this match, the Indian batsmen had scored 7 or more sixes in their innings on three consecutive instances.
5. Sachin Tendulkar (38) played just his second one dayer against Ireland in his illustrious career of 447 matches and also posted his highest score against them.
6. Kohli played his first one dayer against Ireland and has now played against ten cricketing sides in his 48 match one day career so far.
7. When Munaf Patel dismissed Johnston as the last Irish wicket, he extended his good run in World cups overall with 11 wickets in six World cup matches.
8. Yusuf Pathan has now scored 12 sixes in his last 4 one day innings.
9. Yuvraj Singh’s 5-31 is his first five wicket haul and also becomes the first cricketer to achieve the feat of five wickets and a fifty in a World cup match.
10. Yuvraj Singh scored his second consecutive fifty and has scored just three half centuries in his last 10 innings, though.
11. Zaheer Khan had yet another 3 wicket haul in Bangalore and has claimed 8 wickets in the tournament so far.
12. George Dockrell (2-49) has been among wickets consistently and has claimed 12 wickets in his last 6 international matches.
13. Trent Johnston (2-16) has claimed 2 wickets in each of the matches he has played in this World cup edition so far.

– Sharath

1. The victory for England is their first in three World cup matches.
2. It took almost just the half the runs they scored against India and Ireland to win the match, in a different venue, though (Chennai).
3. Chennai has been a witness to low scoring matches in this World cup edition so far and no team has scored more than 175.
4. Anderson’s middle innings two wicket burst that was part of his 2-16 in 6 overs is his most economical spell in the four World cup matches he has played. He has now given 228 runs in this World cup edition of his 34 overs with just 4 wickets.
5. Trott (52) scored his third half century in this tournament.
6. South Africa lost its last seven wickets for just 41 runs.
7. South Africa has now adopted a sinusoidal pattern in terms of their new ball bowling pair. They started with a spinner (Peterson) as they did with Botha in the first match. They began their bowling with two regular fast bowlers in their previous match against the Netherlands.
8. Imran Tahir (4-38), who became the first South African since the 1992 World cup to make his career debut in a World cup match has now, claimed 11 wickets in his first three matches. Tahir is now the second leading wicket taker in this tournament behind Afridi’s 14 wickets.
9. Jack Kallis (15) is not having the best of starts in this World cup and has scored just 21 runs in the first three matches in this edition so far.
10. Kallis is now the only senior batsman, who has played in all World cups since 1996 and has scored less than 25 runs in three innings.
11. Hashim Amla who scored more than 25% of the South Africa’s aggregate in the match has now scored fifty or more runs in an innings on five of his last 10 one day innings.
12. Strauss (0) failed to add on to his superior runs aggregate of 280 runs. However, he still remains the leading run getter in this tournament.
13. Stuart Broad’s 4-15 is his ninth four wicket haul in 76 matches. He has now claimed 130 wickets.

– Sharath

1. Ricky Ponting could not add to his tally of just 40 runs in this World cup edition which includes just one hit 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.
2. Shaun Tait (1-23) continues to have a good run in World cups and has now claimed 29 wickets in 14 matches. Outside World cups, Tait has claimed almost the equal amount of wickets (28) in 17 matches. He has now claimed 6 wickets in this World cup edition so far.
3. This match is seventh instance of a no result match in a World cup and the first one for Australia.
4. Ponting also suffered an unexpended end in his 24 World cup matches winning streak.

– Sharath

1. Bangladesh registered the fourth lowest team score in a World cup match and the first among Test playing nations.
2. Suleiman Benn has now opened the bowling for the West Indies in all their three matches.
3. Chris Gayle (37*) reached a milestone of 8000 runs in one day cricket.
4. Darren Sammy in just his seventh completed match as captain of the West Indies has now won four of those matches in charge. This win is his first against a Test playing nation.
5. West Indies have conceded just 1 run as an extra in terms of a wide in their last three matches.
6. Kemar Roach (3-19) is now  the tournament’s second leading wicket taker behind Shahid Afridi with 10 wickets. He has claimed 36 wickets in his 18 match one day career so far.
7. Tamim Iqbal’s duck is already the ninth in his 92 innings career so far.
8. Suleiman Benn’s 4 – 18 in this match is his career best effort in one day internationals.
9. West Indies, along with Australia and New Zealand are the only teams to have won World cup matches by a margin of nine wickets on three instances.

– Sharath