Ireland vs. Sri Lanka - Full Match Details

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Scorecard

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Points Table as @ 19.04.2007

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Top 10 Batters as @ 19.04.2007

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Top 10 Bowlers as @ 19.04.2007

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Wicket Keeper Dismissals as @ 19.04.2007

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Most Economical Bowlers as @ 19.04.2007

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# Ireland's total of 77 is the sixth-lowest in the World Cup.

# Sri Lanka have made it habit of finishing off the minnows in double-quick time, and they did it again in Grenada - three of the seven lowest World Cup scores have now come against them.

# Ireland's innings lasted only 27.4 overs, making it the sixth time a team had been bowled out in under 30 overs in World Cup matches.

# The match aggregate of 158 is the fourth-lowest in a World Cup game.

# Sri Lanka didn't take much longer to wrap it up here, finishing off the run-chase with 240 balls to spare. Only twice in World Cups have teams won more comprehensively, in terms of number of balls remaining - in the match mentioned above, Sri Lanka beat Canada with 272 deliveries remaining, while Canada suffered at the hands of England in 1979, losing with 277 balls to spare. Among all ODIs, this was the sixth-most comprehensive victory margin in terms of balls remaining. (Click here for the most comprehensive wins in World Cups, and here for the most emphatic ODI wins.)

# The Ireland innings had five ducks, making it the fifth instance of five batsmen failing to get off the mark in an innings in the World Cup.

# Muttiah Muralitharan recorded his best bowling figures in a World Cup match. His 4 for 19 is marginally better than the 4 for 28 he took against Kenya at Nairobi in 2003.

# Farveez Maharoof, who started the slide for Ireland, has now taken four wickets on two occasions in this tournament - he had earlier taken 4 for 23 against Bermuda.

# Kumar Sangakkara failed with the bat, but pouched three catches behind the stumps, taking his World Cup tally of dismissals to 32 - only Adam Gilchrist, with 44, has more dismissals in World Cups. In this edition, Sangakkara leads the way with 14, one ahead of Brendan McCullum.