Records tumble in World Cup 2007:

World Cup 2007 has just begun and many records have already started tumbling thanks to smaller grounds, inexperienced bowling attacks and aggressive batting.

India now hold yet another ODI record, when Sachin hit the first ball of the 50th over for six, India crossed 400 thus becoming the first team to do so, in a World Cup. (the previous best score was Srilanka, who scored 398/5 against Kenya in 1996 WC).

Dravid hit the last ball of the innings for a six thus taking India's Sixer Tally to 18. This equals South Africa's tally (18 Sixes and 30 Fours) against Holland (Obviously it was scored in this World Cup just a week ago).

Surprisingly India scored 30 Boundaries and 18 Sixes, compared to South Africa who hit the same number of 4s and 6s in 40 overs against Holland in WC 2007.

There were five ducks in the Bermuda innings, equaling the record for most ducks in a World Cup innings. The three other instances were; England v West Indies at Lord's in 1975, Canada v Sri Lanka at Paarl in 2003 and Sri Lanka v India at Johannesburg

Herschelle Gibbs became the first player in International Cricket to hit six consecutive 6s off one Van-Der-Bunge over. He hit 7 sixes in total and scored 72 off 41 balls.

In the same match against Holland, Boucher smashed 75 off just 31 balls. He reached his 50 in 21 balls to break the record for fastest 50 in WC history. The previous record was held by Brian Lara (WI) who hit 50 off 23 balls against Canada in 2003.

The Minnow Bashing Continues: Bermuda were yet again thrashed by a huge marigin:257 runs. This is the highest marigin of victory achieved by any team beating the previous best of 256 runs achieved by Australia against Namibia in 2003 WC.
Srilanka had also beaten Bermuda by 243 runs in their previous match.

Incidentally, this world cup has so far seen minnows like Bermuda, Scotland and Holland have all been defeated by a margin of more than 200 runs.
Australia had beaten Scotland and Holland by 200+ runs in their first two matches of World Cup 2007.

Australia also became the first team in World Cup history to score 300+ totals in 3 consecutive WC matches. They scored 359/2 against India in 2003 WC final, 300+ against Scotland and 358/5 against Holland.

Ricky Ponting broke Saurav Ganguly's World Cup record of 25 Sixes.
Saurav, however, equalled the record when he hit 3 sixes against Bermuda to take his tally to 25(Saurav has played 10 WC matches lesser than Ponting).

Dwayne Leverock's spell of 10-0-96-1 was the second most expensive 10-over spell in World Cups. The two most expensive figures are Martin Snedden's 12-0-105-2 against England in 1979 and Ashantha de Mel's 10-0-97-1 against West Indies in 1987

Southafrica went a step further when they broke many World records (including the maximum number of sixes in a match(18), Six consecutive sixes off an over(By Herschelle Gibbs off Van Der Bunge, fastest fifty in World Cup history etc(50 off 21 balls by Mark Boucher).