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Notable statistics from the Super Six phase of the 2003 cricket World Cup:
* Aravinda de Silva became the fifth player (behind Sachin Tendulkar, Javed Miandad, Vivian Richards and Mark Waugh) to score 1,000 World Cup runs in hitting 92 off 94 balls against Australia at Centurion (March 7). That innings, however, was a footnote in another crushing Aussie win as they trounced Sri Lanka by 96 runs. Adam Gilchrist became the first man in World Cup history to be dismissed for 99.
* Saurav Ganguly's matchwinning back-to-the-wall 107 not out against Kenya in Cape Town (March 7) gave him a 21st one-day international century. Only Sachin Tendulkar, with 34, has more.
* Tendulkar continued to hoard records with a 97 in the 183-run Wanderers win over Sri Lanka (March 10). He may have missed out on a 35th one-day century, but after the innings he had recorded the most runs ever scored in a single World Cup, 571 to beat his own 1996 record of 523. He already held the record for the most career
runs in the tournament and the equal highest number of World Cup centuries.
Only Viv Richards, with 63.31 to the Indian's 60.92, has a higher average among the great names. Only five men have a better strike rate (Adam Gilchrist, Kapil Dev, Wasim Akram, Sanath Jayasuriya and Jonty Rhodes) but none of them has scored even half the number of runs recorded by Tendulkar. At the end of the Super Sixes with the semi-final against Kenya to come, Tendulkar had scored 586 runs at 65.11 with a strike rate of 90.43.
* Shane Bond's six for 23 against Australia (March 11) at Port Elizabeth was the best by a New Zealander in one-day history and the equal fifth best in World Cups. He also dismissed Ricky Ponting for the sixth time in his six games against the Australians. And he also ended up on the losing side by 96 runs after Brett Lee retorted with five for 42.
* Kenya became the first team without test status to reach a World Cup semi-final by beating a woeful Zimbabwe in Bloemfontein (March 12). They had not beaten Zimbabwe in 14 previous meet-
ings.
* Marvan Atapattu became the ninth batsman in World Cup history to bat through a completed innings as he made 103 not out to set up Sri Lanka's 74-run victory (March 15) over Zimbabwe at East London, a result taking them into the last four.
* Brett Lee took the first World Cup hat-trick by an Australian in the five-wicket win over Kenya (March 15) at Durban. He took those three wickets with his first 12 balls without conceding a run. He had ended his previous appearance against New Zealand with a burst of five wickets for three in 15 balls -- giving him a composite eight wickets for three runs in 27 deliveries. There had been three previous World Cup hat-tricks -- by Chetan Charma (India), Saqlain Mushtaq (Pakistan) and Sri Lanka's Chaminda Vaas earlier in the tournament in South Africa.
* Vaas equalled the World Cup record of 20 wickets when he took two for 46 against Zimbabwe on March 15. The record is now jointly held by Vaas, Australia's Shane Warne and New Zealander Geoff Allott, who took their wickets at the 1999 tournament.