England was dismissed for a total of 123 in this game to provide the 42nd occasion of England dismissed for a total of less than 125 in the World Cup. It also provides the fourth occasion of England dismissed for a total of less than 125 runs in the World Cup.

 

No	Team	Score	Overs	Opposition	Ground	Date
1	England	93	36.2	v Australia	Leeds	18.06.75
2	England	103	41.0	v South Africa	The Oval	22.05.99
3	England	123	33.2	v New Zealand	Wellington	20.02.15
4	England	125	49.1	v Zimbabwe	Albury	18.03.92

 

England was dismissed for a total of 123 in this game to provide the third occasion of a team dismissed for a total of one-two-three in World Cup.

 

No	Team	Score	Overs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Date
1	Zimbabwe	123	40.3	2	v Pakistan	The Oval	11.06.99
2	Canada	123	42.1	2	v Zimbabwe	Nagpur	28.02.11
3	England	123	33.2	1	v New Zealand	Wellington	20.02.15

 

TG Southee captured seven wickets for 33 runs in this game to provide the 51st occasion of a bowler capturing five or more wickets in World Cup. It also provides the third   occasion of a New Zealand bowler to capture five or more wickets in the World Cup

 

No	Player	O	M	R	W	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Date
1	TG Southee	9.0	0	33	7	1	v England	Wellington	20.02.15
2	SE Bond	10.0	2	23	6	1	v Australia	P Elizabeth	11.03.03
3	RJ Hadlee	10.1	4	25	5	1	v Sri Lanka	Bristol	13.06.83

 

Thus TG Southee’s 7 for 33 in this game represent the best bowling figures by a New Zealand bowler in the World Cup. The previous best was 6 for 23 by SE Bond against Australia at Port Elizabeth on 11.03.03

 

TG Southee became the fourth bowler to capture seven wickets in the World Cup. Others are GD McGrath, AJ Bichel and WW Davis

 

No	Player	O	M	R	W	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Date
1	GD McGrath	7.0	4	15	7	2	Aus	Nam	Potchefstroom	27.02.03
2	AJ Bichel	10.0	0	20	7	1	Aus	Eng	P Elizabeth	02.03.03
3	TG Southee	9.0	0	33	7	1	NZl	Eng	Wellington	20.02.15
4	WW Davis	10.3	0	51	7	2	Win	Aus	Leeds	11.06.83

 

Thus TG Southee’s 7 for 33 in this game represent the best bowling figures by a New Zealand bowler in one day games.  The previous best was 6 for 19 by SE Bond against India at Bulawayo on 26.08.05.

 

TG Southee became the ninth bowler to capture seven or more wickets in one day games. The following table lists all the nine bowlers with their performances.

 

No	Player	O	M	R	W	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Date
1	WPUJC Vaas	8.0	3	19	8	1	Srl	Zim	Col-SSC	08.12.01
2	Shahid Afridi	9.0	3	12	7	2	Pak	Win	Providence	14.07.13
3	GD McGrath	7.0	4	15	7	2	Aus	Nam	Potchefstroom	27.02.03
4	AJ Bichel	10.0	0	20	7	1	Aus	Eng	P Elizabeth	02.03.03
5	M Muralitharan	10.0	1	30	7	2	Srl	Ind	Sharjah	27.10.00
6	TG Southee	9.0	0	33	7	1	NZl	Eng	Wellington	20.02.15
7	Waqar Younis	10.0	0	36	7	1	Pak	Eng	Leeds	17.06.01
8	Aaqib Javed	10.0	1	37	7	2	Pak	Ind	Sharjah	25.10.91
9	WW Davis	10.3	0	51	7	2	Win	Aus	Leeds	11.06.83

 

TG Southee became the second bowler to capture seven wickets against England in the World Cup after AJ Bichel. AJ Bitchell had captured seven wickets conceding 20 runs at Port Elizabeth on 02.03.03.

 

No	Player	O	M	R	W	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Date
1	AJ Bichel	10.0	0	20	7	1	Aus	Eng	P Elizabeth	02.03.03
2	TG Southee	9.0	0	33	7	1	NZl	Eng	Wellington	20.02.15

 

TG Southee became the third bowler to capture seven wickets against England in one day games. The following table lists all the three bowlers with their performances.

 

No	Player	O	M	R	W	Inns	Team	Oppn	Ground	Date
1	AJ Bichel	10.0	0	20	7	1	Aus	Eng	P Elizabeth	02.03.03
2	TG Southee	9.0	0	33	7	1	NZl	Eng	Wellington	20.02.15
3	Waqar Younis	10.0	0	36	7	1	Pak	Eng	Leeds	17.06.01

 

BB McCullum registered the third fastest fifty of the one day games when he scored the first fifty of his 77 runs in 18 balls. The following are the other batsmen who have scored fastest fifties in 18 balls or less in one day games. It is observed that BB McCulum shares his 18 ball fifty with six other batsmen.

 

Runs	First 50	Balls	6s	4s	Player	Team	Opp	Venue	Year
149	First 50	16	16	9	AB de Villiers	RSA	Win	Johannesburg	18/01/2015
76	First 50	17	5	8	ST Jayasuriya	Srl	Pak	Singapore	07/04/1996
74	First 50	18	6	4	SP O’Donnell	Aus	Srl	Sharjah	02/05/1990
102	First 50	18	11	6	Shahid Afridi	Pak	Srl	Nairobi	04/10/1996
55*	First 50	18	6	4	Shahid Afridi	Pak	Net	Colombo	21/09/2002
60	First 50	18	7	3	GJ Maxwell	Aus	Ind	Bangalore	02/11/2013
59	First 50	18	7	2	Shahid Afridi	Pak	Ban	Mirpur	04/03/2014
77	First 50	18	7	8	BB McCullum	NZl	Eng	Wellington	20/02/2015

 

BB McCullum registered the fastest fifty of the world cup when he scored the first fifty of his 77 runs in 18 balls. It was an improvement over his own fastest fifty in the World Cup. Prior to this feat, he had scored the first fifty of his 52 against Canada at St Lucia on 22.03.07

 

BB McCullum became the first captain to score the fastest fifty in the World Cup when he scored the first fifty of his 77 in 18 balls in this game.

 

The following are the occasions when a New Zealand batsman has scored seven or more sixes in an innings in a one day game.

 

No	Player	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	Team	Oppn	Ground	Date
1	CJ Anderson	131*	47	6	14	NZl	Win	Queenstown	01.01.14
2	BB McCullum	166	135	12	10	NZl	Ire	Aberdeen	01.07.08
3	L Vincent	172	120	16	9	NZl	Zim	Bulawayo	24.08.05
4	L Ronchi	170*	99	14	9	NZl	Srl	Dunedin	23.01.15
5	CL Cairns	115	80	7	7	NZl	Ind	Christchurch	19.01.99
6	CD McMillan	64*	27	2	7	NZl	USA	The Oval	10.09.04
7	LRPL Taylor	131*	124	8	7	NZl	Pak	Pallekele	08.03.11
8	BB McCullum	77	25	8	7	NZl	Eng	Wellington	20.02.15

 

BB McCullum became the second New Zealand batsman to score seven sixes in an innings in the World Cup after LRPL Taylor. LRPL Taylor had scored seven sixes in his knock of 131 not out against Pakistan at Pallekele on 08.03.11

 

No	Player	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	Team	Oppn	Ground	Date
1	LRPL Taylor	131*	124	8	7	NZl	Pak	Pallekele	08.03.11
2	BB McCullum	77	25	8	7	NZl	Eng	Wellington	20.02.15

 

BB McCullum’s 77 in this game provide the 134^th occasion of a captain scoring a fifty in the World Cup. It also provides the 20^th occasion of a New Zealand captain scoring a fifty in the World Cup.

 

BB McCullum’s scored seven boundary sixers in this game which fetched him 20 boundary sixes aggregate in the World Cup. He became the eighth batsman to score 20 plus boundary sixes in the World Cup. The following table enlists all the eight batsmen who have an aggregate of 20 plus boundary sixes in the World Cup. BB McCullum earned the distinction of becoming the first New Zealand batsman to score 20 plus boundary sixes in the World Cup.

 

No	Player	Team	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	6s
1	RT Ponting	Aus	46	42	4	1743	140*	45.86	5	6	31
2	HH Gibbs	RSA	25	23	4	1067	143	56.15	2	8	28
3	ST Jayasuriya	Srl	38	37	3	1165	120	34.26	3	6	27
4	SR Tendulkar	Ind	45	44	4	2278	152	56.95	6	15	27
5	SC Ganguly	Ind	21	21	3	1006	183	55.88	4	3	25
6	ML Hayden	Aus	22	21	2	987	158	51.94	3	2	23
7	IVA Richards	Win	23	21	5	1013	181	63.31	3	5	22
8	BB McCullum	NZl	28	21	5	571	101	35.68	1	4	20

 

BB McCullum’s boundary sixes in one day games aggregate read 177 at the end of this game. He became the seventh batsman to total 175 plus boundary sixes in one day games. The following table lists all such batsmen

 

No	Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0	4s	6s
1	Shahid Afridi	Pak	392	364	26	7970	124	23.57	6	39	29	721	346
2	ST Jayasuriya	Srl	445	433	18	13430	189	32.36	28	68	34	1500	270
3	CH Gayle	Win	264	259	17	8917	153*	36.84	21	46	23	1024	213
4	SR Tendulkar	Ind	463	452	41	18426	200*	44.83	49	96	20	2016	195
5	SC Ganguly	Ind	311	300	23	11363	183	41.02	22	72	16	1122	190
6	MS Dhoni	Ind	255	223	64	8280	183*	52.07	9	56	7	644	178
7	BB McCullum	NZl	243	212	28	5637	166	30.63	5	29	18	519	177

 

DL Vettori’s two catches gave him an aggregate of 84 catches in one day games. He now occupies the fourth place in the list of New Zealand fieldsmen who have pouched most catches. Others are – SP Fleming {132}, LRPL Taylor {100} and CZ Harris {96}. DL Vettori went past NJ Astle who has taken 83 catches on his way to the fourth position.

 

LRPL took a catch to dismiss ST Finn off the bowling of TG Southee for a duck which gave him his 100^th catch in one day games. He became the second New Zealand fieldsman to pouch 100 plus catches in one day games after SP Fleming. SP Fleming has pouched 132 catches. With 100 catches to his credit, LRPL Taylor became the 30^th fieldsman in the annals of one day games to pouch 100 plus catches

 

New Zealand registered its fifth straight win against New Zealand in World Cup. The following table lists out the Head to Head performance between the two teams in the World Cup and also in one day games

 

England-New Zealand Head to Head in One day games
Team	Span	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	NR
England	1973-2015	78	33	39	2	4
New Zealand	1973-2015	78	39	33	2	4
England-New Zealand Head to Head in World Cup
Team	Span	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	NR
England	1975-2015	8	3	5	0	0
New Zealand	1975-2015	8	5	3	0	0

 

No	WC Edition	Date	Ground	Teams	Winner	Margin
1	1975	11.06.75	Trent Bridge	Eng v NZl	England	080 runs
2	1979  (SF)	20.06.79	Old Trafford	Eng v NZl	England	009 runs
3	1983	09.06.83	Kennington Oval	Eng v NZl	England	106 runs
4	1983	15.06.83	Edgbaston	Eng v NZl	New Zealand	002 wkts
5	1991-92	15.03.92	Wellington	Eng v NZl	New Zealand	007 wkts
6	1995-96	14.02.96	Ahmedabad	Eng v NZl	New Zealand	011 runs
7	2006-07	16.03.07	Gros Islet	Eng v NZl	New Zealand	006 wkts
8	2014-15	20.02.15	Wellington	Eng v NZl	New Zealand	008 wkts

 

New Zealand won this game by eight wickets with 226 balls to spare to provide the tenth occasion of a team winning a World Cup game with 226 plus balls to spare. All such occasions are listed below

 

No	Winner	Margin	BR	Target	Overs	Max	Oppn	Ground	Date
1	Eng	08 wkts	277	46	13.5	60.0	Can	Manchester	13.06.79
2	Srl	09 wkts	272	37	4.4	50.0	Can	Paarl	19.02.03
3	NZl	10 wkts	252	70	8.0	50.0	Ken	Chennai	20.02.11
4	Srl	08 wkts	240	78	10.0	50.0	Ire	St George’s	18.04.07
5	Win	08 wkts	239	69	10.1	50.0	Sco	Leicester	27.05.99
6	Win	09 wkts	236	87	20.4	60.0	Srk	Manchester	07.06.75
7	RSA	10 wkts	228	109	12.0	50.0	Ban	Bloemfontein	22.02.03
8	Aus	09 wkts	226	92	12.2	50.0	Ire	Bridgetown	13.04.07
9	Win	09 wkts	226	59	12.2	50.0	Ban	Dhaka	04.03.11
10	NZl	08 wkts	226	124	12.2	50.0	Eng	Wellington	20.02.15

 

New Zealand won this game by eight wickets with 226 balls to spare to provide the second occasion of New Zealand winning a World Cup game with 226 plus balls to spare. All such occasions are listed below

 

No	Winner	Margin	BR	Target	Overs	Max	Oppn	Ground	Date
2	NZl	10 wkts	252	70	8.0	50.0	Ken	Chennai	20.02.11
2	NZl	08 wkts	226	124	12.2	50.0	Eng	Wellington	20.02.15

 

New Zealand won this game by eight wickets with 226 balls to spare to provide the second occasion of New Zealand winning a World Cup game with 226 plus balls to spare. New Zealand became the third team in the history of the World cup to win a game with 22 plus balls to spare on two or more occasions. Others are – Sri  Lanka {02} and West Indies {03}. All such occasions are listed below

 

No	Winner	Margin	BR	Target	Overs	Max	Oppn	Ground	Date
1	NZl	10 wkts	252	70	8.0	50.0	Ken	Chennai	20.02.11
2	NZl	08 wkts	226	124	12.2	50.0	Eng	Wellington	20.02.15
1	Srl	09 wkts	272	37	4.4	50.0	Can	Paarl	19.02.03
2	Srl	08 wkts	240	78	10.0	50.0	Ire	St George’s	18.04.07
1	Win	08 wkts	239	69	10.1	50.0	Sco	Leicester	27.05.99
2	Win	09 wkts	236	87	20.4	60.0	Srk	Manchester	07.06.75
3	Win	09 wkts	226	59	12.2	50.0	Ban	Dhaka	04.03.11