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
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)

File:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.svg West Indies bowling
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
File:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.svg West Indies innings (Target: 304 runs from 50 overs)
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
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)

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