Though West Indies hold a 52-38 overall advantage in Tests, England have won ten of the last 12

Bangladesh scored 116 runs in boundaries to India's 114, but they played out 38 more dot balls

Ravi Shastri says India will be much tougher to beat through the rest of the series after their five-wicket win at Mirpur

How true is the theory that, with wickets in hand, teams often double their 30-over score in ODIs? The Numbers Game investigates

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Dinesh Karthik added 107 for the sixth wicket, of which 52 runs came in singles

A statistical analysis of Bangladesh v India in one-day internationals

Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist have all the numbers to suggest they're one of the best opening pairs ever in ODIs

Australia scored 66.30 runs per wicket with the bat and conceded 18.81 per dismissal with the ball. No other team got close to those numbers

Glenn McGrath's career was characterised by his consistency and his ability to bring out his best on the most important occasions

Adam Gilchrist's 149 was the highest in a World Cup final, while his 172-first wicket stand with Hayden is the second-highest in World Cup finals

In a battle of heavyweights, Australia have the edge in batting while the bowling is evenly matched

Despite so many well-matched teams, the World Cup has witnessed far too many one-sided contests

This could have been Glenn McGrath's last international match but typically, on a big stage and in a crunch game, he delivered more spectacular results

An analysis of Mahela Jayawardene's perfectly paced hundred, and Muralitharan nabs 50 World Cup wickets

New Zealand's strength in the field has been their ability to take wickets and staunch the runs in the middle overs, while Sri Lanka's batsmen have scored plenty in this period

Kevin Pietersen scored his fifth ODI century, but the first in a winning cause for England

A look at Brian Lara's glittering career in numbers

After his blistering 103, Matthew Hayden is only 93 short of Sachin Tendulkar's record tally of 673 in a World Cup

While most of the other teams are struggling to score runs in the early overs, Australia are doing just fine, thanks to Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist

With 34 wickets in 11 ODIs against Australia, Shane Bond is the trump card for Stephen Fleming in Friday's clash