2007 Cricket World Cup: West Indies vs Bangladesh

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April 19, 2007

West Indies have beaten Bangladesh by 99 runs in the Super 8 stage of the World Cup at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. Both teams had already failed to qualify for the semi-final stage of the tournament before today's match. Bangladesh's World Cup is now over, while West Indies have one match remaining against England on April 21.

West Indies stumbled to 55/3 after a slow start, losing Gayle and Smith cheaply with Shivnarine Chanderpaul scoring 50 off 85 balls. They had only reached 67-3 at the half-way point of their innings, restricted by some tight bowling from seamers Mashrafe Mortaza and Syed Rasel. However Ramnaresh Sarwan (91 not out), Brian Lara (33) and Marlon Samuels (31) salvaged a respectable total of 230 for the hosts. 230 is the lowest score that a opening batting team has won with in this world cup(Zimbabwe-Ireland had a tie at 221), previous low was 235 for Sri Lanka against England.

Bangladesh found scoring against West Indies' pace bowling attack difficult and were bowled out for just 131 after 43.5 overs. Daren Powell was the pick of the bowlers, taking 3/38 off 10 overs, while Corey Collymore took 2/11 and both Dwayne Bravo and Chris Gayle finished with 2/28.

Toss: Bangladesh won, and elected to field first.
West Indies innings
Player Status Runs Balls 4s 6s Strike rate
Chris Gayle lbw b Syed Rasel 1 11 0 0 9.09
Dwayne Smith b Mashrafe Mortaza 5 12 0 0 41.66
Shivnarine Chanderpaul b Aftab Ahmed 50 85 3 0 58.82
Marlon Samuels c Mushfiqur Rahim b Saqibul Hasan 31 66 4 0 49.96
Ramnaresh Sarwan not out 91 90 5 2 101.11
Brian Lara c Javed Omar b Abdur Razzak 33 27 1 2 122.22
Dwayne Bravo not out 9 9 0 0 100.00
Extras (lb 3, w 7) 10
Total (5 wickets; 50 overs) 230 13 4

Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Smith, 3.0 ov), 2-8 (Gayle, 3.5 ov), 3-55 (Samuels, 21.3 ov), 4-136 (Chanderpaul, 37.4 ov), 5-196 (Lara, 46.1 ov)

Did not bat: Denesh Ramdin, Jerome Taylor, Daren Powell, Corey Collymore
Bangladesh bowling
Bowler Overs Maiden Runs Wicket(s) Econ
Mashrafe Mortaza 10 2 39 1 3.90
Syed Rasel 10 2 48 1 4.80
Abdur Razzak 10 0 44 1 4.40
Mohammad Rafique 10 0 46 0 4.60
Saqibul Hasan 8 0 38 1 4.75
Aftab Ahmed 2 0 12 1 6.00
Bangladesh innings (Target: 231 from 50 overs)
Player Status Runs Balls 4s 6s Strike rate
Javed Omar c Gayle b Powell 16 49 1 0 32.65
Tamim Iqbal run out (Bravo) 7 20 1 0 35.00
Aftab Ahmed c Ramdin b Collymore 6 8 0 0 75.00
Saqibul Hasan c Ramdin b Collymore 0 5 0 0 0.00
Mohammad Ashraful c Samuels b Powell 2 8 0 0 25.00
Habibul Bashar c Bravo b Powell 12 21 1 0 57.14
Mushfiqur Rahim not out 38 75 2 0 50.66
Mashrafe Mortaza b Bravo 37 51 4 0 72.54
Mohammad Rafique lbw b Gayle 0 5 0 0 0.00
Abdur Razzak c Lara b Bravo 1 10 0 0 10.00
Syed Rasel b Gayle 2 13 0 0 15.38
Extras (lb 1, w 7, nb 2) 10
Total (all out; 43.5 overs) 131 9 0

Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Tamim Iqbal, 6.2 ov), 2-21 (Aftab Ahmed, 8.5 ov), 3-23 (Saqibul Hasan, 10.5 ov), 4-34 (Mohammad Ashraful, 14.4 ov), 5-35 (Javed Omar, 16.1 ov), 6-52 (Habibul Bashar, 20.4 ov), 7-110 (Mashrafe Mortaza, 35.0 ov), 8-111 (Mohammad Rafique, 36.0 ov), 9-114 (Abdur Razzak, 38.4 ov), 10-131 (Syed Rasel, 43.5 ov)
West Indies bowling
Bowler Overs Maiden Runs Wicket(s) Econ
Corey Collymore 7 1 11 2 1.57
Daren Powell 10 0 38 3 3.80
Jerome Taylor 9 1 25 0 2.77
Dwayne Bravo 9 2 28 2 3.11
Chris Gayle 8.5 0 28 2 3.16

West Indies: C H Gayle, S Chanderpaul, R R Sarwan, M N Samuels, B C Lara (capt), D J Bravo, D R Smith, D Ramdin (wkt), J E Taylor, D B Powell, C D Collymore
Bangladesh: Javed Omar, Tamim Iqbal, Aftab Ahmed, Saqibul Hasan, Habibul Bashar (capt), Mohammad Ashraful, Mushfiqur Rahim (wkt), Mohammad Rafique, Mashrafe Mortaza, Abdur Razzak, Syed Rasel


Umpires: B E Bowden (New Zealand) and R E Koertzen (South Africa)
TV umpire: S J A Taufel (Australia)
Match referee: J J Crowe (New Zealand)
Reserve umpire: S A Bucknor (West Indies)