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JOHANNESBURG, Thursday (Reuters) - Notable statistics after the first phase of the 2003 cricket World Cup:

* The highest score of the World Cup was recorded by Zimbabwe's Craig Wishart, with a 149-ball 172 not out -- the 10th highest in history, 16 runs behind the World Cup record and 22 behind the one-day all-time record -- against Namibia in Harare (Feb 10). Canada opening batsman Ishwar Maraj, meanwhile faced 155 balls to score 53 not out against South Africa (Feb 27) in the second slowest innings in tournament history.

* Australia's Ian Harvey, a late addition to the Australia squad after Shane Watson's injury, took a wicket with his first ball of the tournament by removing Pakistan's Saleem Elahi at The Wanderers. Harvey ended with four for 58, Australia won by 82 runs and Harvey was dropped next match (Feb 11).

* Sachin Tendulkar became the top run-scorer in World Cup history during his 52 against the Netherlands, overhauling former Pakistan batsman Javed Miandad's total of 1,083 runs when he had reached 25 (Feb 12). He scored 152 in the 181-run win over Namibia (Feb 23) to match Australian Mark Waugh's career total of four World Cup hundreds and raised his career tally of ODI runs to beyond 12,000 with a brilliant 98 against Pakistan (March 1).

* India's Javagal Srinath became the fifth bowler to take 300 one-day wickets when dismissing Dutchman Feiko Kloppenburg in Paarl (Feb 12).

* Left-armer Chaminda Vaas created cricket history with a hat-trick off the first three balls of the match against Bangladesh on the way to final figures of 6-25 in Pietermaritzburg (Feb 14). After five matches, Vaas boasted 16 wickets at 7.81 apiece.

* England, having refused to play in Zimbabwe, bowled their first ball of the World Cup against the Netherlands in East London (Feb 16) 163 hours and 30 minutes after the tournament began.

* Canada were skittled for 36, the lowest total in one-day international history, as Sri Lanka crushed them by nine wickets in Paarl (Feb 19). Sri Lanka eased home in only 4.4 overs, completing the second fastest run-chase ever in limited-overs internationals.

* Bangladesh's 32-run defeat to Kenya at The Wanderers (March 1) meant they had not won for a world record 32 one-dayers in a row, stretching back to the 1999 World Cup. Of those, 30 were defeats (including a world-record 23 in a row) with the other two rained off. They have also lost 16 of 17 tests, with bad weather saving them in the other.

* Canada's John Davison scored the fastest century in World Cup history against West Indies (Feb 23), reaching three figures off 67 deliveries to break Indian Kapil Dev's 1983 mark by five balls. Davison's next innings, against South Africa in East London, ended after one single and two balls.

Brian Lara hit the quickest fifty of the tournament, his half-century coming off just 23 balls. The West Indies innings of 206 for three in 20.3 overs produced the fastest runs per over ever recorded in a one-day innings, at 10.04.

* Pakistan's Wasim Akram dismissed Nick Statham of the Netherlands (Feb 25) to become the only man to take 500 wickets in one-day internationals. Wasim was playing in his fifth and last World Cup.

* India's left-arm seamer Ashish Nehra took six for 23, at the time the third-best bowling figures in World Cup history, to rout England by 82 runs in Durban (Feb 26). He had spent the previous two days on the treatment table for a sprained ankle. Ashish moved down to fourth in the table 24 hours later, courtesy of Glenn McGrath, then to fifth, courtesy of Andy Bichel, a few days after that.

* Australia's world-record 256-run win over Namibia at Potchefstroom (Feb 27) meant they were the first team to qualify for the Super Sixes. It also gave them an 11th consecutive one-day international win, equalling the record set by West Indies between June 1984 and February 1985.

The Namibia game was packed with other records, Glenn McGrath's 7-15 the second-best bowling figures in one-day history and the best in a World Cup, Darren Lehmann hitting a World Cup record 28 off one over -- the last of the innings -- and Adam Gilchrist taking six catches, equalling the one-day record by a wicketkeeper.

* Australia's Andy Bichel, only playing because of an injury to Jason Gillespie, completed the third best bowling figures in one-day history, taking seven for 20 against England at Port Elizabeth (March 2). He then scored 34 not out to earn the man-of-the-match award as Australia won by two wickets to seal a world record 12th straight one-day victory.

* The World Cup saw only its second tied match when South Africa clashed with Sri Lanka in their final Group B games (March 4). The previous instance, against Australia in the 1999 World Cup, also involved South Africa. In each instance the team were elminated as a result. 

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