- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
- Kumar Sangakkara (SL) became the second highest run scorer in ODIs. [4]
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
- Both Sri Lanka openers (Lahiru Thirimanne and Tillakaratne Dilshan) were dismissed for golden ducks. It was the second time in ODI history where this has occurred. [6]
- Hamid Hassan became first Afghan bowler to take 50 ODI wickets and seventh-quickest in the world to take 50 ODI wickets. [6]
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
- Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara's unbroken partnership of 210 was Sri Lanka's highest second-wicket partnership in ODIs. [8]
- Kumar Sangakkara became the fourth cricketer to play 400 ODI matches. [9]
- Dilshan's score of 161 not out was the highest individual score in an ODI without hitting a six. [10]
- England won the toss and elected to bat.
- Joe Root became the youngest English player to score a century at a World Cup. [12]
- Lahiru Thirimanne became the youngest Sri Lankan player to score a century at a World Cup. [12]
- Sri Lanka became the first team in a World Cup match to chase down a score of more than 300 runs for the loss of only one wicket. [13]
- Suranga Lakmal (SL) was fined 30% of his match fee for bowling two beamers in the final over. [13]
- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- Umpire Ian Gould stood in his 100th ODI match. [15]
- Glenn Maxwell scored his maiden ODI century, the fastest by an Australian in a World Cup (51 balls) and the second-fastest overall. [16]
- Tillakaratne Dilshan hit six fours off an over, bowled by Mitchell Johnson, the first time this has happened in World Cup history. [17]
- Kumar Sangakkara became the second player to score 14,000 ODI runs, [18] and scored a record third consecutive World Cup century. [19]
- Dinesh Chandimal retired hurt, and did not return to complete his innings. [19]
- New Zealand were confirmed as Pool A winners as a result of this match. [20]
- Australia qualified for the quarter-finals as a result of this match. [19]
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
- Kumar Sangakkara hit a record fourth consecutive ODI century. [22]
- Sangakkara has now taken 54 dismissals as a wicket keeper, the most by any player in World Cups. [22]
- Angelo Mathews scored Sri Lanka's fastest World Cup fifty and their second fastest in all ODIs (20 balls). [22]
- This is the highest score conceded by Scotland in an ODI. [23]
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