1. Virender Sehwag (175) scored his 14^th one day hundred.
   • This is his second World cup century
   • His first century against Bangladesh. He has now scored hundreds against 7 countries – Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Pakistan, West Indies, England, Bermuda and now Bangladesh
   • His career best limited overs score.
   • Second best score by an Indian batsman in World cups (alongside Kapil Dev’s 175 against Zimbabwe in 1983).
2. Tamim Iqbal (70) has now managed to score a fifty in consecutive world cup matches against India. He scored 51 in the previous edition against India. Interestingly on both the occasions he was dismissed by Munaf Patel.
3. Virat Kohli (100) scored his fifth limited overs career hundred. He has now scored 50 or more runs in an innings on 17 occasions of his 43 innings career so far. He also averages close to 50 runs every innings in his 46 match career so far.
4. Kohli also bagged the distinction of becoming first Indian batsman to score a hundred on world cup debut.
5. Munaf Patel’s 4 – 48 is already his second four wicket haul in limited overs cricket and the third of his career so far. Interestingly, his only first four wicket haul was against Sri Lanka in February 2007 (almost 4 years back).
6. Munaf Patel has now claimed 8 wickets in four world cup matches.
7. This becomes the second consecutive one day match this year in which the Indian batsmen have scored have scored 7 or more sixes in their innings. Sehwag and Kohli scored all seven sixes between them in this match. In the previous one dayer against South Africa, the Indian batsmen scored 9 sixes overall including 8 by Yousuf Pathan alone.
8. Shafiul Islam didn’t exactly have an auspicious start to his World cup campaign. The first ball of this World cup which was bowled by him was a boundary and he ended up as the most expensive Bangladesh bowler with figures of 1-69 in 7 overs.
9. Shakib Al Hasan (55) became the first Bangladesh captain to score a fifty in a World Cup match.
10. This match breaks the sequence of 8 Indian players getting a chance to bowl. The last two one day matches involved 8 Indian bowlers, while this match had only six bowlers bowling.
11. India scored almost double the total score the team scored in the previous World cup edition against Bangladesh.  India scored 370 in this match against the 191 in the previous edition.  India was dismissed in the last edition while it lost just 4 wickets in this edition.
12. The first and last wickets of the match were both run outs (Sachin Tendulkar and Shafiul Islam).
13. Sachin Tendulkar is now the most capped one day player in the history of the game (445 matches).
14. Tendulkar has now leveled Miandad’s record of most appearance in World cup editions (6).
15. Mahendra Singh Dhoni becomes the third different captain for India in as many editions (Ganguly in 2003 and Dravid in 2007).
16. India has now posted totals in excess of 350 in three instances.
17. Zaheer Khan (2-40) has now claimed 25 wickets in all World cups

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