2007 Cricket World Cup: Sri Lanka vs West Indies
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
Sri Lanka beat the West Indies by 113 runs in the Super 8 phase of the World Cup at the Providence Stadium, Georgetown, Guyana.
This was a crucial game for the West Indies as they had already suffered defeat in both their previous Super 8 games, against Australia and New Zealand. Sri Lanka too had lost out to South Africa in their previous Super 8 encounter.
Toss: West Indies won, and elected to field first.
 Sri Lanka innings |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Upul Tharanga | b Powell | 8 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | b Powell | 115 | 101 | 10 | 4 | 113.86 | |
| Kumar Sangakkara | c Ramdin b Bradshaw | 7 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 70.00 | |
| Mahela Jayawardene | b Bravo | 82 | 113 | 2 | 1 | 72.56 | |
| Chamara Silva | c Lara b Sarwan | 23 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 74.19 | |
| Tillakaratne Dilshan | not out | 39 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 177.27 | |
| Russel Arnold | not out | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 7; w 13; nb 5) | 25 | |||||
| Total | (5 Wickets; 50 overs) | 303 | 16 | 7 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Tharanga, 5.5 ov), 2-35 (Sangakkara, 8.4 ov), 3-218 (Jayasuriya, 38.4 ov), 4-251 (Jayawardene, 44.1 ov), 5-268 (Silva, 46.4 ov)
 West Indies bowling |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | |
| Jerome Taylor | 8 | 1 | 32 | 0 | 4.00 | |
| Daren Powell | 10 | 1 | 38 | 2 | 3.80 | |
| Ian Bradshaw | 10 | 0 | 67 | 1 | 6.70 | |
| Dwayne Smith | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 7.66 | |
| Chris Gayle | 9 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 6.66 | |
| Dwayne Bravo | 7 | 0 | 59 | 1 | 8.42 | |
| Ramnaresh Sarwan | 3 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 5.66 | |
| West Indies innings (Target: 304 runs from 50 overs) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Chris Gayle | c Fernando b Malinga | 10 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 47.61 | |
| Dwayne Bravo | b Vaas | 21 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| Shivnarine Chanderpaul | b Malinga | 76 | 110 | 1 | 5 | 69.09 | |
| Brian Lara | st Sangakkara b Vaas | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Ramnaresh Sarwan | st Sangakkara b Jayasuriya | 44 | 68 | 1 | 1 | 64.70 | |
| Marlon Samuels | lbw b Muralitharan | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| Dwayne Smith | run out (Malinga/Sangakkara) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Denesh Ramdin | c Vaas b Jayasuriya | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| Ian Bradshaw | not out | 6 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 35.29 | |
| Jerome Taylor | lbw b Muralitharan | 13 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 144.44 | |
| Daren Powell | b Jayasuriya | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 1; w 8; nb 2) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out; 44.3 overs) | 190 | 8 | 6 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1-20 (Gayle, 5.2 ov), 2-40 (Bravo, 8.3 ov), 3-42 (Lara, 10.1 ov), 4-134 (Sarwan, 34.2 ov), 5-147 (Samuels, 35.6 ov), 6-148 (Smith, 36.4 ov), 7-158 (Ramdin, 38.1 ov), 8-173 (Chanderpaul, 41.2 ov), 9-187 (Taylor, 43.4 ov), 10-190 (Powell, 44.3 ov)
| Sri Lanka bowling |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | |
| Chaminda Vaas | 8 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 2.37 | |
| Lasith Malinga | 5 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 6.80 | |
| Dilhara Fernando | 7 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 2.71 | |
| Tillakaratne Dilshan | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 2.75 | |
| Russel Arnold | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3.00 | |
| Muttiah Muralitharan | 9 | 0 | 59 | 2 | 6.55 | |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | 8.3 | 0 | 38 | 3 | 4.47 | |
Sri Lanka: W U Tharanga, S T Jayasuriya, K C Sangakkara (wkt), D P M D Jayawardene (capt), L P C Silva, T M Dilshan, R P Arnold, C R D Fernando, W P U J C Vaas, S L Malinga, M Muralitharan
West Indies: C H Gayle, S Chanderpaul, R R Sarwan, M N Samuels, B C Lara (capt), D J Bravo, D Ramdin (wkt), D R Smith, D B Powell, J E Taylor, I D R Bradshaw
Player of the match: S T Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)
Umpires: M R Benson (England) and D J Harper (Australia)
TV umpire: S J A Taufel (Australia)
Match referee: J J Crowe (New Zealand)
Reserve umpire: S A Bucknor (West Indies)
Sources
- "30th Match, Super Eights: West Indies v Sri Lanka at Providence, Apr 1, 2007". Cricinfo, April 1, 2007
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