- Virender Sehwag for five consecutive matches in a row has opened the scoring with a boundary. Sehwag is the leading run scorer in the tournament with 327 runs in 5 innings.
- Sachin Tendulkar (111) had plenty of records in this match:
- The first cricketer to score more than one World cup 100 in his sixth world cup edition.
- Scored his sixth World cup hundred
- Scored his first World cup hundred against South Africa and his fourth world cup 100 in the sub continent.
- Zaheer Khan has now claimed 12 wickets in the tournament so far and is now the joint second leading wicket-taker in this tournament.
- India lost its last nine wickets for just 29 runs. Incidentally in its last match South Africa lost its last seven wickets for just 41 runs.
- The match witnessed five half centurions and one centurion.
- Indian bowlers bowled just 1 wide in their 49.4 overs bowled.
- Interestingly, for the first time since the 1975 World cup, the first three batsmen of a side have all scored fifty plus runs in an innings.
- Dale Steyn (5-50), became the fifth South African bowler to capture five wickets in an innings in a World Cup match.
- Jack Kallis (69) scored his first major knock in this tournament. Prior to this match he has scored just 21 runs in the first three matches in this edition.
- Hashim Amla (61) has now scored fifty or more runs in an innings on six of his last 11 one day innings.
– Sharath