Mitchell Marsh fell early after Australia won the toss and opted to bat at Delhi, but David Warner and Steve Smith (playing in his 150th ODI) put on 132 – a World Cup record second-wicket stand against the Netherlands. They went past Craig Spearman and Stephen Fleming’s 116 at Vadodara in 1996.

Smith fell for a 68-ball 71, but Warner went on to make 104 in 93 balls, his sixth World Cup hundred – the joint second-most in the history of the tournament. Only Rohit Sharma (7) has more, while Sachin Tendulkar also made six World Cup hundreds.

Glenn Maxwell smashed the fastest hundred in World Cup history, off only 40 balls. He broke the previous record, set by Aiden Markram against Sri Lanka at the same venue earlier in the tournament by a whopping nine-ball margin.

Maxwell’s hundred is also the fastest ODI hundred by an Australian by a considerable margin. He broke his own record of 51 balls, against Sri Lanka at Sydney at the 2015 World Cup. James Faulkner’s 57-ball ton against India at Bengaluru in 2013/14 is the quickest by another Australian.

Only three batters have scored quicker hundreds than Maxwell in all ODIs: AB de Villiers (31 balls against the West Indies, Johannesburg 2014/15), Corey Anderson (36 against the West Indies, Queenstown 2013/14), and Shahid Afridi (37 against Sri Lanka, Nairobi).

According to statistician Mazher Arshad, Maxwell’s was the first hundred by a player to face their first ball after the 40th over.

Maxwell’s eight sixes are a record against an Associate Nation at the World Cup. There were multiple instances of seven, of which Herschelle Gibbs’ included six in an over against the Netherlands at Basseterre in 2007.

Notes on Maxwell’s innings:

• Australia were 266-4 in 39 overs when Maxwell joined Warner. He did not face any of the next eight balls. The first ball Maxwell faced was the third of the 41st over, and he reached his hundred off the fifth ball of the 49th.
• Maxwell had scored 35 off the first 21 balls he faced, and took 19 more to reach his hundred. The second fifty – 47, to be precise, from 54 to 101 – took him only 13 balls.
• Maxwell made 91 out in a 103-run seventh-wicket partnership with Pat Cummins.
• Inside a span of 18 days, Delhi has witnessed three of the eight fastest World Cup hundreds including the top two.

Australia made 399-8, their second-highest score at the World Cup (after 417-6 against Afghanistan at Perth in 2015). The 15 sixes was Australia’s second-most in a World Cup innings, after the 19 they hit against Pakistan five days ago.

Bas de Leede finished with figures of 10-0-115-2 – the most runs conceded by a bowler in an ODI. The record was previously shared by Mick Lewis (at Johannesburg in 2005/06) and Adam Zampa (at Centurion in 2023/24), both against South Africa.

Notes on de Leede’s spell:

• At Basseterre during the 2007 World Cup, Bas de Leede’s father Tim bowled the most inexpensive 10-over ODI spell for the Netherlands against Australia.

Logan van Beek (4-74) became the first bowler from an Associate Nation to take four wickets against Australia at the World Cup. The previous best was Aasif Karim’s 3-8 in the 2003 edition.

In all ODIs, van Beek’s are the second-best from an Associate Nation against Australia, after Gordon Goudie’s 5-73 at Edinburgh in 2009.