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

1. New Zealand played just their second match in Ahmedabad, both the matches not against India and has won both the matches.
2. Hamish Bennett, who claimed 6 wickets for New Zealand in the first 2 matches was the only New Zealand bowler to have bowled more than 4 overs and didn’t claim a wicket.
3. Utseya, Cremer and Price, batted at numbers 8, 9 and 10 respectively for Zimbabwe and scored nearly 43% of the total score.
4. Interestingly both the teams conceded just 4 extras respectively.
5. This victory margin (10 wickets) is already New Zealand’s second in the tournament in three matches.
6. Tim Southee (3-29) has now claimed 59 wickets in 46 matches. Interestingly, Southee has claimed just 7 wickets in his last seven matches after his five wicket haul against Pakistan in Wellington in January 2011.
7. Martin Guptill’s unbeaten 86 is his first in World cup matches and tenth overall in his limited overs career. His two sixes in the match has ensured that he maintains his better sixes:matches ration as he has already scored 31 sixes in his 45 innings career so far.
8. Brendon McCullum’s unbeaten 76 is also just his second World cup fifty in 13 innings and 19^th overall in his career.

– Sharath

1. Pakistan remains the only team so far to have won all three of their opening matches.
2. Shahid Afridi (5-23) claimed his fifth five wicket haul in limited overs cricket and is continuing to be the leading wicket taker in this edition with 14 wickets overall. Prior to this edition, he had claimed just 7 wickets in 12 world cup matches.
3. Afridi, however is continuing to have a disappointing World up with the bat as he has scored just 168 runs in 14 World cup innings with an uncharacteristic just 5 hits beyond the boundary.
4. Umar Akmal (Pakistan) and Hansra (Canada) were the only batsman to score a six in the match.
5. No batsman scored a fifty in this match.
6. All Canadian bowlers except Khurram Chohan and TGGordon who combined to bowl 4 overs between them, were among the wickets.
7. All Pakistani bowlers except Mohammed Hafeez were among the wickets as well.
8. Misbah Ul Haq (37) is now the fourth leading run getter in this tournament with 185 runs in 3 matches.
9. Saeed Ajmal, who played his first World cup match and claimed his first World cup wicket as well, returned to the Pakistan one day team after 4 months.

– Sharath

1. Hashim Amla scored his first World cup ton in just his second match and the 8^th hundred overall in his one day career.
2. Unlike the previous match, South Africa began their bowling with two regular fast bowlers. J. Botha didn’t play in this match as well.
3. AB DeVilliers (134) scored his third World cup hundred and a second consecutive hundred in this edition. This ton is also the eleventh of his limited overs career, overall.
4. Imran Tahir (3-19), who became the first South African since the 1992 World cup to make his career debut in a World cup match has now claimed 7 wickets in his first two matches.
5. Jack Kallis(2) is not having the best of starts in this World cup and has scored just 6 runs in the first two matches in this edition so far. Interestingly, in his last 10 innings he has not scored in double figures only thrice including the last 2 matches and this sequence of matches included five knocks over fifty.
6. Ryan ten Doeschate, who scored a career best 119 against England earlier in this tournament, claimed his best bowling figures in World cups (3-72 in this match).
7. As many as three Dutch bowlers gave away more than 70 runs.
8. JP Duminy (40*) for the second consecutive match remained unbeaten in the forties. He has now scored 82 runs in two matches, facing just 68 deliveries and has hit three fours and four sixes.

– Sharath

1. Kevin O’Brien (113):
   1. Scored the fastest century in World cup cricket of fifty deliveries.
   2. The only centurion of the match in which 656 runs were scored, coming into bat at number 6 for Ireland
   3. Scored six sixes, one more than the number of sixes the entire England team managed to score.
   4. Now is the only Irish batsman to score a sixer in both their World cup games.
   5. Is the sixth leading run scorer in the tournament (150 runs in 2 matches).
   6. Is now the leading run scorer for Ireland in one day cricket (1486 runs in 54 matches at an average of 36.2 and has scored 40 sixes as well).
2. Anderson’s 1-49 in 8.1 overs is his most economical spell in the three World cup matches he has played. He has now given 212 runs in this World cup edition of his 28 overs with just 2 wickets.
3. For the second consecutive match, Bangalore witnessed both teams scoring well in excess of 300 runs.
4. Graeme Swann (3-47) claimed 3 wickets in 4 overs , which is now his best returns in a World cup match.
5. Trott (92) and Bell (81) scored their second half centuries in this tournament, while Pietersen (59) scored his first of the edition.
6. Ireland lost 7 wickets in the match overall which included a wicket of the first ball of their innings and three wickets within a space of four overs.
7. JF Mooney finished with most wickets among bowlers from both the sides with 4-63, scored an unbeaten 33 with the bat coming in at number 8 and hitting the winning runs as well.
8. England’s batting performance in the same ground (Bangalore) in the last 2 matches are almost identical:
   1. Scored 338/8 Vs India, Scored 327/8 against Ireland
   2. Didn’t win both the matches
   3. Had centuries being scored against their bowling, both scoring in the 120 runs range (Tendulkar – 120, Kevin O’Brien – 113)
   4. Graeme Swann the unbeaten batsman in both their matches.

– Sharath

1. Sri Lanka won the math by nine wickets and scored the required 143 runs in just 18.4 overs, but their innings didn’t include even a single sixer.
2. Lasith Malinga became the second bowler in successive matches to claim six wickets that included a hat-trick after Kemar Roach achieved the feat against the Netherlands in the previous match.
3. Malinga has an impressive World cup record of 24 wickets in just nine matches and 120 wickets in 78 matches overall in his career.
4. Tharanga (67*) scored his 19^th limited overs career half century
5. Muralitharan (playing in his 34^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 57.
6. Malinga’s hat-trick is also the seventh by a bowler in World cup cricket. Incidentally this is his second hat-trick in World cup, the only bowler to have achieved this feat.
7. The Obuya brothers (Collins and David) both scored half centuries for Kenya in the match. Interestingly they were the only batsmen to score in double digits. Collins scored his 8^th career fifty while David scored his 6^th.
8. Four of the six dismissals of Malinga in this match were “Bowled”.

– Sharath

1. Devon Smith (53) managed his first one day half century in one and a half years. This is also just his fourth half century in 34 matches.
2. The match witnessed a rare event of Chris Gayle outscored by his opening partner when the first wicket fell for the West Indies.
3. Suleiman Benn opened the bowling for the West Indies for the second consecutive match.
4. Chris Gayle (80) scored his 43^rd one day fifty. He fell one short of his 8000^th run in one day cricket. He has scored a half century almost after a gap of a year and has missed to score one in his last 10 matches.
5. Keiron Pollard (60) almost overhauled his career best one day score of 62. He scored four sixes in the match and has now scored 27 sixes in 31 innings of his career so far.
6. Darren Sammy in just his sixth completed match as captain of the West Indies has now won three of those matches in charge. All his wins as skipper have been against non test playing nations – Canada, Ireland and Netherlands.
7. West Indies for the second consecutive match didn’t concede a single wide in their 2 runs as extras conceded.
8. Kemar Roach (6-27) became the fourth bowler in the annals of the World cup to claim a hat-trick. This is Roach’s second career five wicket haul in 17 matches. He has claimed 33 wickets in his career so far.
9. Tom Cooper’s unbeaten 55 is already his 6^th half century in 12 matches. He has now scored 691 runs at an average of 69 with a hundred as well.

– Sharath

1. John Davison (aged 40 years), who was a revelation in the 2003 World cup and also Canada’s all-time leading run scorer managed second consecutive duck in this tournament and also went wicket-less for 56 runs in his 8 overs.
2. N.R. Kumar became the youngest cricketer to represent a country in World cup matches (aged 16).
3. Surkari, who came into bat at number 7 was the top scorer for Canada with 26.
4. W.D. Balaji Rao claimed his career best bowling figures with 4-47 in this match. Prior to this match he had claimed just 3 wickets in 5 matches. He became the second Canadian bowler to claim four or more wickets in the World Cup behind A Codrington’s 5 for 27 against Bangladesh in the 2003 edition.
5. Taibu (98) scored his 17^th limited overs half century.
6. Ervine managed just his second half century in 16matches.
7. Wicket-keepers had contrasting fortunes in this game, interestingly:
   1. Taibu – 98 runs with the bat and two stumpings
   2. Bagai – Dismissed for no score and claimed three catches
8. Cremer claimed his 50th one day wicket and became the 15th Zimbabwean bowler to achieve the landmark in one-dayers.
9. Zimbabwe’s whopping 175 run victory margin is their first in terms of win by over 100 runs in a World cup match.
10. Canada’s AS Hansra and John Davison were the only bowlers in the entire match to have given more than 6 runs an over. They gave away 97 runs in 12 overs between them.

– Sharath

1. The result is just the fourth tied one dayer in the annals of World cup. South Africa (twice), Australia, Sri Lanka and now India and England have been involved once in a tied one dayer in a World cup event.
2. Interestingly now, all World cups starting from the 1999 edition have all had one tied World cup match.
3. England had made some sort of a comeback to correct their recent one day record in India. Prior to this match England has lost 11 of their last 12 one dayers in India.
4. Sachin Tendulkar (120) had plenty of records in this match:
   1. The first cricketer to score a World cup 100 in his sixth world cup edition.
   2. Scored his fifth World cup hundred
   3. The first batsman to have scored a hundred by playing in more than 445 one day internationals (he played his 446 one dayer).
   4. Scored his last hundred almost a year back, an unbroken record 200* against South Africa on 24^th Feb 2010.
   5. Scored his first World cup hundred against England and his third world cup 100 in the sub continent.
5. Virat Kohli (8), who scored his fifth limited overs career hundred in the previous match and has scored 50 or more runs in an innings on 17 occasions of his 44 innings career so far, came into bat at number 7, for the third time in his career.
6. Kohli played his first one dayer against England and has now played against nine cricketing sides in his 47 match one day career so far.
7. Munaf Patel (2-70) has now claimed 10 wickets in five world cup matches.
8. James Anderson has conceded 90 or more runs in one day matches twice in the same month now, (Feb 2011).
9. Tim Bresnan (5-48) was the most economical among the bowlers from both the sides considered with an economy rate of 4.8, while runs were scored in the match overall at 6.7 runs per over.
10. Bresnan’s five wicket haul is his first in his 37 match limited overs career so far. He has claimed just 46 career one day wickets. He has not claimed a five wicket haul in any form of cricket for England prior to this match (Test cricket, T20, etc).
11. This becomes the third consecutive one day match this year in which the Indian batsmen have scored have scored 7 or more sixes in their innings. Tendulkar, Dhoni and Yusuf Pathan scored all seven sixes between them in this match.
12. Yusuf Pathan has now scored 9 sixes in his last 3 one day innings.
13. Strauss (158) leapfrogged to the top of the leading run getters list n this World cup with 246 runs in 2 matches.
14. Strauss’s 100 is his sixth in one dayers and his first in World cup matches. This hundred is also his first against India. He has now managed to score four of his six one day hundreds against Sub continent sides (Pakistan, India and Bangladesh). He has scored his other two against the West Indies.
15. Paul Collingwood (1) managed to register his fifth single digit score in his last 11 one day innings.
16. India has now posted 300+ scores on two consecutive world cup matches.
17. James Anderson has now given 163 runs in this World cup edition of his 19.5 overs with the wicket of Tendulkar in this match, his only wicket so far.
18. Anderson has now dismissed Tendulkar three times in the 11 matches they have played against each other.
19. Piyush Chawla has played 8 of his 23 one dayers against England and has claimed 8 wickets, including his 2-71 in this match.

– Sharath

1. Pakistan and Australia remain the only teams so far to have won both their opening encounters.
2. Younis Khan (72), in his tenth World cup match followed his first World cup fifty in the previous match with another fifty plus knock in this match.
3. Younis Khan and Misbah Ul Haq both scored half centuries in two matches in a row so far in this edition.
4. Shoiab Akhtar (2-42) has now claimed 29 wickets in 18 World cup matches. Both his dismissals in the match were dismissed “Bowled”. 85 of his 246 wickets in one day cricket (more than one-third) have been “Bowled” dismissals.
5. Shahid Afridi (4-34) claimed his third four wicket haul in limited overs cricket and is also now the leading wicket taker in this edition with 9 wickets overall. Prior to this edition, he had claimed just 7 wickets in 12 world cup matches so far.
6. Pakistan leaked 29 runs as extras in contrast to just 9 runs as extras from the Sri Lankan team.
7. Sri Lanka as a team managed to score just 2 sixes for the second consecutive World cup match.
8. Chamara Silva (57) scored his fifth fifty in World cup cricket and twelfth of his 65 match limited overs career so far. He scored his fifty coming into bat at number 6 and scored the lone fifty for Sri Lanka in the match.

– Sharath