* This is the 150th ODI to be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. While Australia have played 125 of them, Sri Lanka and South Africa were playing their 19th and 15th on this ground respectively.
* Only the Sharjah Cricket Ground (218) has hosted more ODIs than the SCG.
* Tharindu Kaushal is only the second player to make his ODI debut in a World Cup knockout match, the other being Wayne Larkins (Eng), who made his bow against New Zealand in the 1979 semi-final.
* Imran Tahir has now claimed the wicket of Mahela Jayawardene four times, the most by a South Africa bowler.
* Sri Lanka’s total of 133 is the second-lowest total made in a World Cup quarter-final. The lowest is the 112 made by West Indies vs Pakistan at Mirpur in 2011.
* The 15 wickets claimed by Imran Tahir is now the highest by a spinner in this edition. The next best by a spinner is Daniel Vettori’s 13.
* JP Duminy’s hat-trick was the 10th such in World Cups and the first by a South African. He is only the second spinner after Saqlain Mushtaq (vs Zim, Oval, 1999) to claim a World Cup hat-trick
* He is only the second South African to claim a hat-trick in ODIs after Charl Langevelt, who did so against the West Indies at Bridgetown in 2005, and he is also the first South African to claim a hat-trick in a World Cup.
* It is the only the second hat-trick on this ground after Bruce Reid’s for Australia against New Zealand back in January 1986.
* This World Cup has seen the most sixes of all editions (388 so far), but this was the first match to be played without a single maximum.
* This is South Africa’s first win in the knockout stages. They had lost four times (1992, 1996, 2007, 2011) and tied once in 1999.
* South Africa’s win with 192 balls to spare is the biggest margin in any quarter-final, semi-final or final. The previous largest was Australia’s four-wicket win with 188 balls remaining vs England at Headingly in 1975.
