- India became the first country ever to win the cricket world cup on their soil.
- India became only the third team after West Indies and Australia to win the Cricket world cup more than once.
- For the first time three Asian teams reached the semifinal stage of the cricket World Cup.
- A TV viewership of 67.6 million was registered in this cricket world cup.
- Bangladesh co-hosted the cricket world cup for the first time.
- Sachin Tendulkar became the second player after Javed Miandad to play in 6 world cup cricket tournaments.
- Virender Sehwag made his highest one day score 175 runs in the tournament.
- Sachin became the first player to score 2000 runs in world cup cricket. He has scored six centuries and 15 half centuries in world cup cricket history.
- Yuvraj Singh became the first player to score 50 runs and to take 5 wickets in a world cup match.
- Sachin has scored the maximum number of centuries in the World Cup Cricket.
- Kevin O’ Brien of Ireland scored the fastest century in world cup cricket against England.
- Bangladesh team was bowled out for 58 runs against West Indies which was the lowest score by any host country and the fourth lowest score by any country. Canada has scored the lowest score (36 runs) in the world cup history.
- The winning streak of Australia stopped after it lost to Pakistan during league round of world cup matches. It had won 34 matches in world cup without losing a single one in between.
- Lasith Malinga became the first player to get hat-trick wickets for the second time in world cup cricket when he took hat-trick wickets against Kenya. Earlier, he had taken hat-trick wickets against South Africa in 2007 world cup.
- For the first time two Asian teams reached the world cup cricket final.
- For the first time any cricket team successfully chased a big score of 275 runs in world cup cricket final.
- Indian team became the first team to defeat all the previous world cup winner countries to won the cricket world cup 2011.
- Sachin Tendulkar has won the highest number of Man of the Match awards in world cup cricket.
- Sachin Tendulkar reached the personal score of 18000 runs during this world cup during the quarterfinal match against Australia.
- In world Cup Cricket history Tilakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga made the record partnership for the first wicket. They together scored 282 runs against Zimbabwe in world cup cricket 2011.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011: New Records at a Glance
By Jagran Josh
Apr 5, 2011, 15:23 IST
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