• It was the 20th match between the two teams. The record now reads: England 13, SriLanka 7.
• The playing record between the two teams in World Cup matches now reads: played 7, England 6, SriLanka 1.
• Umpires Rudi Koertzen and S Venkataraghavan were officiating in their 48th and 20th match respectively.
• Eric Upasantha and Marvan Atapattu, and Ian Austin, Mark Ealham, Andrew Flintoff, Adam Hollioake, Nasser Hussain and Alan Mullally were making their World Cup debut for SriLanka and England respectively. Now 48 players for Sri Lanka and 66 players for England have played in World Cup matches.
• Kaluwitharana's innings is the highest for Sri Lanka against England at batting position 7. The previous highest was AN Ranasinghe's 51 at Colombo on 13-02-1982.
• Kaluwitharana's innings is the fourth joint highest for SriLanka in all matches at batting position 7.

The accompanying table has the details:

100	Hashan Tillekeratne	  vs WestIndies	    Sharjah	16-10-1995
72*	Hashan Tillekeratne	  vs Zimbabwe	    Sharjah	10-11-1998
63*	Arjuna Ranatunga	  vs WestIndies	    Perth	02-02-1985
57	Lanka DeSilva		  vs South Africa   Lahore	06-11-1997
57	Romesh Kaluwitharana      vs England        Lord's	14-05-1999

• Just for the record the highest individual score against England at batting position 7 remains West Indian Junior Murray's 86 at The Oval on 26-05-1995.
• 9 SriLankan batsmen were out 'caught'. This is the most number of dismissals in this mode in an innings in world cup. The previous record was of 8 batsmen caught in an innings on 12 Occasions.
• Graeme Hick, when caught Mahanama, became leading fieldsman for England. He was previously at level with Graham Gooch with 45 catches.
• Alan Mullally became first Englishman and 11th bowler in World Cup history to capture four wickets on world cup debut. The previous best 'World Cup debut' performance for England was on the Neil Smith,who took 3 for 29 against UAE at Peshawar on 18-02-1996.
• Graham Thorpe became only the second Englishman to take three catches as a fieldsman on two separate occasions after Neil Fairbrother. Overall it was 12th instance of an Englishman taking three cathces in a match in the field.
• Thorpe also equalled the existing world cup record of most catches by a fieldsman in a match. The others to held three cathces in a match are WestIndian Clive Lloyd (v SriLanka, Manchester, 07-06- 1975), Englishman Dermot Reeve (v Pakistan, Adelaide, 01-03-1992), Pakistani Ijaz Ahmed (v Australia, Perth, 11-03-1992), Australian Allan Border (v Zimbabwe, Hobart, 14-03-1992) and NewZealander Chris Cairns (v UAE, Faisalabad, 27-02-1996).
• Arjuna Ranatunga was making his 26th World Cup appearance. He thus equalled India's Kapil Dev's tally. Now only two Pakistanis Javed Miandad (33) and Imran Khan (28) have played more World Cup matches than Ranatunga.

• This was also Ranatunga's fifth World Cup (his first was 1983 World Cup). He became only third player after Pakistanis Javed Miandad and Imran Khan to play in five World Cups. Miandad, incidentally, is the only player to have played in six World Cups (from 1975 to 1996)
• Ranatunga faced his first defeat as Sri Lanka's captain in seventh World Cup match.
• The second wicket partnership of 125 runs between Stewart and Hick is England's best for this wicket against Sri Lanka. This obliterates the 75 runs partnership between Nick Knight and Hick at Adelaide on 23-01-1999.
• Alec Stewart won Man of the Match award for the sixth time in his ODI career