New Zealand lead 35-39 (Tied: 1. NR: 4)
The World Cup, Sri Lanka leads 4-3
With the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka led 15-5 (NR: 2)
* Sri Lanka and New Zealand (such as Australia and Pakistan) have qualified for the finals-but the group a is wide open rankings, with Sri Lanka able to end anywhere from second to fourth place and New Zealand to finish anywhere from first to fourth place, depending on the outcome of the race weekend and NET run rate
* Sri Lanka have lost only two games (nine) which have played against New Zealand at the start of 2007 and have not lost any of their last three World Cup races in New Zealand
* The last time that Sri Lanka met New Zealand in a World Cup was the semi-finals in Kingston (April 2007) when Mahela Jayawardene (115) and Upul Tharanga (73) combined to post a formidable total of 289 before Muttiah Muralitharan 4-31 losers to New Zealand on 208.
Earlier in the Super eight stage, too, the two groups met with Sri Lanka winning by six wickets when Scott Styris had 111 of futile
* Sri Lanka (W-WLWW) had a hiccup against Pakistan in the World Cup, when they lost by 11 runs but have all other victories by thumping Room 210 (Canada), runs for nine wickets (Kenya) and 139 runs (Zimbabwe). The mouth-watering fight against Australia layout beautifully played before rain spoil
* New Zealand (WWWLW), as Sri Lanka, had a disappointing defeat to Australia by seven wickets. But, otherwise, all other matches have ended with one-sided huge victories, including the 110-run defeat of Pakistan, two victories 10-wicket against Kenya and Zimbabwe and a 97-run victory against Canada
* The retrospectively by two groups are in very good form. Tillakaratne Dilshan (283 runs), Upul Tharanga (258 runs) and Kumar Sangakkara (252 executions) is ranked sixth, seventh and eight respectively for the leading run-getters the World Cup.
* Similarly, Brendon McCullum (225 runs), Ross Taylor (212 runs) and Martin Guptill (209 runs) is the leading run scorer for New Zealand and the top 15 items total World Cup performance-focus
* Bowling for both sides is decent with Tim Southee (with 11 wickets) one of the greatest gifts wicket and indomitable Muttiah Muralitharan (seven wickets) leads the tally for Sri Lanka.
However, several other bowlers on both sides--Lasith Malinga, Kyle Mills, Billy Bennett, Thisara Perera--had six wickets each while they only played three of the five League games so far
* Taylor leads the tally for the highest number of Sixes (12) in the World Cup so far
(Edited by Jon Bramley)
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