Stats - South Africa's year of big scores and big wins

4 - Number of 380-plus totals by South Africa in ODIs in 2023, including three at the ongoing World Cup. These are the joint-most 380-plus totals for a team in a calendar year in men's ODIs, equalling the four they had in 2015.

8 - Number of ODIs won by South Africa with a margin of 100-plus runs in 2023. South Africa won nine and lost only one of the ten matches they batted first in this year. Pakistan, in 1999, are the only other team with as many as eight ODI wins by a margin of 100-plus runs - they batted first in 21 matches that year.

7 - Consecutive 300-plus totals for South Africa while batting first in ODIs, the joint-longest streak for any team. Australia in 2007 and England in 2019 also had a run of seven matches where they crossed the 300-run mark batting first.

174 - Quinton de Kock's score against Bangladesh is the highest by a wicketkeeper in a men's ODI World Cup match. The previous highest was 149 by Adam Gilchrist against Sri Lanka in the final of the 2007 edition. (Even though de Kock did not keep wickets in this match, the record is against his name since he was the designated wicketkeeper in the team list at the toss.)

1 - Number of individual scores higher than de Kock's 174 for South Africa in the men's ODI World Cup. Gary Kirsten's 188* against UAE in 1996 remains the highest, not only at World Cups but overall. De Kock is also the first South Africa player with three centuries in a single edition of the World Cup.

3 - Number of 150-plus scores for de Kock in ODIs, the most by a wicketkeeper. His three 150-plus scores are also the second-highest for South Africa in the format, behind only Hashim Amla's four.

10.58 - South Africa's scoring rate between the 41st and 50th overs in ODIs in 2023. They scored 100-plus runs in their last ten overs this year in six out of nine innings where they batted the entire 50 overs. It is the highest run rate for any team in a calendar year since 2002 for a minimum of ten innings. The next highest is also South Africa's - 9.80 in 2015.

19 - Sixes hit by the South Africa batters against Bangladesh, the joint-highest by any team against Bangladesh in an ODI innings. West Indies also hit 19 sixes against Bangladesh in 2014.

2 - The 19 sixes by South Africa are also the joint-second-highest by any team in a men's ODI World Cup game, behind England's 25 against Afghanistan in 2019. Only twice did South Africa hit more sixes in a men's ODI - 20 against India in 2015, also at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, and against Australia in Centurion earlier this year.

3 - Centuries for Mahmudullah in the ODI World Cup, the most for Bangladesh. Shakib Al Hasan (2) and Mushfiqur Rahim (1) are the others to score centuries for Bangladesh at the World Cup, all of those coming in 2019. Mahmudullah's previous two World Cup centuries came in successive matches in 2015.