West Indies defeated co-host Bangladesh by 9 wickets in their Group B match at Cricket World Cup

West Indies Beats Bangladesh by 9 Wickets at Cricket World Cup

The West Indies defeated co-host Bangladesh by nine wickets in their Group B match in Dhaka after nine Bangladeshi batsmen failed to reach double figures.

Chris Gayle was 37 not out, combining with Devon Smith, out for 6 runs, and Darren Bravo, 9 not out to achieve the win with 226 balls remaining in the 50-overs match.

Bangladesh was all out for 58 after 18.5 overs. Only Junaid Siddique, out on 25, and Mohammad Ashraful, caught on 11, reached double figures for the co-hosts. Bangladesh’s score was the lowest total ever by a full-member nation in the history of the tournament. Top batsman Tamim Iqbal was dismissed for a duck on the third ball.

The West Indies is now in second place in Group B, behind South Africa, while Bangladesh is in sixth place.

In an earlier Group A match, New Zealand defeated Zimbabwe by 10 wickets as Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill combined for 166 runs.

Guptill ended on 86 and McCullum reached 76 after 33.3 overs. Zimbabwe was all out for 162 in 46.2 overs at Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera.

New Zealand’s Tim Southee took 3-29 as seven of Zimbabwe’s batsmen failed to score more than 12 runs.

New Zealand moves to fourth place in Group A, with Zimbabwe in fifth. The top four from two groups of seven teams advance to the quarterfinals of the event, co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The tournament ends April 2.

Interview with Brian Lara

Interview with Brian Lara

Brian Lara

In an exclusive interview with Angus Fraser, the legendary batsman Brian Lara reveals what inspired him as he dispatched the world's best bowlers to the boundary and what the future holds now he has left the crease for the final time

Living in Brian Lara's neighborhood would not have been much fun when he was a child. Parents in Cantaro, Santa Cruz and Trinidad would spend their early evenings fearing that a ball of some description would come flying through their front window, while the young boys who played cricket with Lara in the street could spend an entire week bowling at him.

When I met up with Brian Charles Lara at Lord's, I asked him what it was that made him want to bat for such lengthy periods of time. Surely, after four or five hours at the crease, he must occasionally get bored?

"My drive has always been to bat," said Lara, holder of the world record for the highest individual first-class score, 501, and Test score, 400 not out. "When I played in my backyard I would bat for a week sometimes. We would play between four and six o'clock every evening, before I got called in for tea and to do my homework, and if my mates did not get me out on one day I would carry on batting the next. That was the rule and sometimes I would bat for a week."

Brian Lara

Did his mates ever feel they were getting a raw deal? "No," he said, smiling. "It was only 10 hours. They were always optimistic. They always believed they would get me out.

"For me, an innings starts at naught and ends when you walk off the field, and that was the most enjoyable part of it. You should not hasten anything and I never felt the desire to do so. I just felt that I was putting together an innings and it was up to the captain when he brought it to an end or, unfortunately, when on many occasions I have been out."

There are those of us who still do not want to accept the fact that we will never again have the pleasure of watching Lara bat live. His retirement from international cricket at the 2007 World Cup was sudden and it surprised everyone. He is still good enough to play - nobody could deny that. He scored 216 against Pakistan in his penultimate Test, and how much could the West Indies team touring England do with a player of his class in their side?

For 17 years, millions of cricket fans traveled to grounds or turned on their television sets excited by the prospect of watching the game's most thrilling and best modern-day batsman play. But now it has gone, cruelly taken away from us and it feels like bereavement.

Brian Lara

I always thought it was only fast bowlers who left cricket a physical wreck but the hours - sorry, years - Lara has spent crouched over his bat and running between the wickets have taken their toll. He may be only 38 but I could almost hear his body creak as he sat down next to me on a leather sofa.

"I never thought I was special," he said. "I just put in the work and enjoyed the process of working hard at my game. My first double century was not at school or at first-class level. It was playing cricket for the West Indies against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

"I just think that through each step of the way you work hard and you enjoy that process, and the end result is sometimes something that is out of this world, and everyone is amazed by it," he added.

"Wes Hall described me early on in my career as a superstar under construction but the construction period continued throughout my career until the moment I retired.

"I enjoy batting and I used to get to a point in my innings - it wasn't 100 but about 50 or 60 - when I felt I had seen everything the opposition had to offer. It was then up to me to dictate what happened. And then, because I enjoy batting, I carried on for as long as I could.

"I always remember when scoring my first hundred at Sydney that Rohan Kanhai [Western Indian batting legend] came up to me and told me to fill my boots. He put it very simply. He told me to score heavily now because you never know when the low scores will come. I have built on that over the years.

"My mental strength and my ability just to want to bat and enjoy it helped me enormously. I never got bored and I never wanted to score just a hundred, or, when I got to 175, to score 200. It never felt that way to me. It was always an innings under construction until it came to an end.

Brian Lara

"I enjoyed the challenge of being the opposition's main target. It was tough at times, but it was a good challenge. Knowing that a lot of the focus of the opposition was on me spurred me on. It was the thing you got into sport for. Tiger Woods gets the attention of not just the media but also that of the other players too. Everyone is looking at where he is and it is nice to know that you have reached a level in the sport where people recognize where you are or see you as the prize wicket."

Had he ever surprised himself? "No, not really," he said. “When I walked out to bat I visualized the best possible innings. I visualized myself playing well, so when that came to fruition it did not come as a surprise. There have been a few occasions when I have doubted myself. Mentally, I tried to stay as strong as possible when this happened, but there were occasions when I walked out to bat and I was not in the best frame of mind due to off-the-field factors. I remember in Australia in 2000 it happened when I went through a rut and doubted my ability to do things. I only got one good score."

What Lara failed to say was that the one score was the small matter of 182 in Adelaide. Expecting it to be his 400, 375 or 277 in Sydney, I asked him what series and innings gave him the greatest pleasure? "The series against Australia in 1999," he replied without thinking. "We had just come back from an unhappy tour in South Africa and there was a lot of trouble with the West Indies Cricket Board. I had been put on probation as captain for a couple of games and we had lost a few of our experienced players. Everybody thought a strong Australian team was going to tear us apart.

"We drew the series 2-2 and had an opportunity to regain the Frank Worrell Trophy, but they came back strongly in the final Test. That to me will go down as the best series that I have ever played in. I know a lot of people talk about my 153 in Barbados being my best innings, but the 213 I scored in the previous Test in Jamaica was better. The pressure I was under there - we had been bowled out for 51 in the first Test in Trinidad - was great and to produce that particular innings was to me the greatest show of character that I have ever shown."

As a cricketer, Lara has stood out like a beacon in a disappointing West Indies side but a failure to drag their cricket out of the doldrums is the major regret of his career. Honors boards that record centuries and five-wicket hauls taken by Test cricketers at each venue have become the vogue and it is amazing to think that Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan and Lara, four of the game's modern greats, do not adorn the walls of the visitors' dressing room at Lord's.

Brian Lara

"It is not a huge disappointment not to have scored a Test hundred at Lord's. From a very young age I wanted to play here and at your first Test match you get into the dressing room, see the boards and think that at some point in time it would be nice to get up there. I scored a hundred here for Warwickshire in 1994 and the fact that I have played at Lord's, and that I have played almost 500 matches for the West Indies leaves me with a great feeling."

And what does the future have in store for Brian Lara? "I have got a lot of opportunities, now that there is no cricket to play," he said. "I will sit down, look through the pile and see what is best for myself in terms of me as a person and what will maintain my image, which is something that I have carved out on the cricket field. I am sure I am capable of maintaining my, whatever it is, my integrity, my character, to enter any other field and make it successful.

"I am not going to rush into anything. I have a couple of businesses that I am already involved in but cricket is my life and it is very hard to get out of it. I am also paying particular attention to not just the fact that I can make a contribution towards cricket, through cricket administration or in the media. But also that I have touched the lives of a lot of people in the Caribbean, in Trinidad and Tobago, that are not necessarily lovers of the game and there is a lot to do beyond the boundary, in terms of trying to enhance the lives of people in Trinidad and Tobago."

A career in politics for Brian Charles Lara? If he chooses to, I pity his opponents.

Master blaster: The life and times of Brian Charles Lara

2 May 1969 Born in Cantaro, Trinidad & Tobago.

Major teams West Indies, Northern Transvaal, Trinidad & Tobago and Warwickshire.

1988 Made first-class debut for Trinidad & Tobago.

1990 Made West Indies debut, against Pakistan in Lahore. .

April 1994 Set Test record of 375 against England in Antigua.

June 1994 Made 501 for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston.

Family His daughter Sydney, eight, is named after the SCG, where he scored his first Test century, 277, in 1993.

* TESTS

Played 131

Runs 11,953

Batting average 52.88

100s/50s 34/48

Top score 400*

* ODIs

Matches 299

Runs scored 10,405

Batting average 40.48

100s/50s 19/63

Top score 169 

Brian Lara

Interview with Brian Lara

Interview with Brian Lara

Brian Lara

In an exclusive interview with Angus Fraser, the legendary batsman Brian Lara reveals what inspired him as he dispatched the world's best bowlers to the boundary and what the future holds now he has left the crease for the final time

Living in Brian Lara's neighborhood would not have been much fun when he was a child. Parents in Cantaro, Santa Cruz and Trinidad would spend their early evenings fearing that a ball of some description would come flying through their front window, while the young boys who played cricket with Lara in the street could spend an entire week bowling at him.

When I met up with Brian Charles Lara at Lord's, I asked him what it was that made him want to bat for such lengthy periods of time. Surely, after four or five hours at the crease, he must occasionally get bored?

"My drive has always been to bat," said Lara, holder of the world record for the highest individual first-class score, 501, and Test score, 400 not out. "When I played in my backyard I would bat for a week sometimes. We would play between four and six o'clock every evening, before I got called in for tea and to do my homework, and if my mates did not get me out on one day I would carry on batting the next. That was the rule and sometimes I would bat for a week."

Brian Lara

Did his mates ever feel they were getting a raw deal? "No," he said, smiling. "It was only 10 hours. They were always optimistic. They always believed they would get me out.

"For me, an innings starts at naught and ends when you walk off the field, and that was the most enjoyable part of it. You should not hasten anything and I never felt the desire to do so. I just felt that I was putting together an innings and it was up to the captain when he brought it to an end or, unfortunately, when on many occasions I have been out."

There are those of us who still do not want to accept the fact that we will never again have the pleasure of watching Lara bat live. His retirement from international cricket at the 2007 World Cup was sudden and it surprised everyone. He is still good enough to play - nobody could deny that. He scored 216 against Pakistan in his penultimate Test, and how much could the West Indies team touring England do with a player of his class in their side?

For 17 years, millions of cricket fans traveled to grounds or turned on their television sets excited by the prospect of watching the game's most thrilling and best modern-day batsman play. But now it has gone, cruelly taken away from us and it feels like bereavement.

Brian Lara

I always thought it was only fast bowlers who left cricket a physical wreck but the hours - sorry, years - Lara has spent crouched over his bat and running between the wickets have taken their toll. He may be only 38 but I could almost hear his body creak as he sat down next to me on a leather sofa.

"I never thought I was special," he said. "I just put in the work and enjoyed the process of working hard at my game. My first double century was not at school or at first-class level. It was playing cricket for the West Indies against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

"I just think that through each step of the way you work hard and you enjoy that process, and the end result is sometimes something that is out of this world, and everyone is amazed by it," he added.

"Wes Hall described me early on in my career as a superstar under construction but the construction period continued throughout my career until the moment I retired.

"I enjoy batting and I used to get to a point in my innings - it wasn't 100 but about 50 or 60 - when I felt I had seen everything the opposition had to offer. It was then up to me to dictate what happened. And then, because I enjoy batting, I carried on for as long as I could.

"I always remember when scoring my first hundred at Sydney that Rohan Kanhai [Western Indian batting legend] came up to me and told me to fill my boots. He put it very simply. He told me to score heavily now because you never know when the low scores will come. I have built on that over the years.

"My mental strength and my ability just to want to bat and enjoy it helped me enormously. I never got bored and I never wanted to score just a hundred, or, when I got to 175, to score 200. It never felt that way to me. It was always an innings under construction until it came to an end.

Brian Lara

"I enjoyed the challenge of being the opposition's main target. It was tough at times, but it was a good challenge. Knowing that a lot of the focus of the opposition was on me spurred me on. It was the thing you got into sport for. Tiger Woods gets the attention of not just the media but also that of the other players too. Everyone is looking at where he is and it is nice to know that you have reached a level in the sport where people recognize where you are or see you as the prize wicket."

Had he ever surprised himself? "No, not really," he said. “When I walked out to bat I visualized the best possible innings. I visualized myself playing well, so when that came to fruition it did not come as a surprise. There have been a few occasions when I have doubted myself. Mentally, I tried to stay as strong as possible when this happened, but there were occasions when I walked out to bat and I was not in the best frame of mind due to off-the-field factors. I remember in Australia in 2000 it happened when I went through a rut and doubted my ability to do things. I only got one good score."

What Lara failed to say was that the one score was the small matter of 182 in Adelaide. Expecting it to be his 400, 375 or 277 in Sydney, I asked him what series and innings gave him the greatest pleasure? "The series against Australia in 1999," he replied without thinking. "We had just come back from an unhappy tour in South Africa and there was a lot of trouble with the West Indies Cricket Board. I had been put on probation as captain for a couple of games and we had lost a few of our experienced players. Everybody thought a strong Australian team was going to tear us apart.

"We drew the series 2-2 and had an opportunity to regain the Frank Worrell Trophy, but they came back strongly in the final Test. That to me will go down as the best series that I have ever played in. I know a lot of people talk about my 153 in Barbados being my best innings, but the 213 I scored in the previous Test in Jamaica was better. The pressure I was under there - we had been bowled out for 51 in the first Test in Trinidad - was great and to produce that particular innings was to me the greatest show of character that I have ever shown."

As a cricketer, Lara has stood out like a beacon in a disappointing West Indies side but a failure to drag their cricket out of the doldrums is the major regret of his career. Honors boards that record centuries and five-wicket hauls taken by Test cricketers at each venue have become the vogue and it is amazing to think that Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan and Lara, four of the game's modern greats, do not adorn the walls of the visitors' dressing room at Lord's.

Brian Lara

"It is not a huge disappointment not to have scored a Test hundred at Lord's. From a very young age I wanted to play here and at your first Test match you get into the dressing room, see the boards and think that at some point in time it would be nice to get up there. I scored a hundred here for Warwickshire in 1994 and the fact that I have played at Lord's, and that I have played almost 500 matches for the West Indies leaves me with a great feeling."

And what does the future have in store for Brian Lara? "I have got a lot of opportunities, now that there is no cricket to play," he said. "I will sit down, look through the pile and see what is best for myself in terms of me as a person and what will maintain my image, which is something that I have carved out on the cricket field. I am sure I am capable of maintaining my, whatever it is, my integrity, my character, to enter any other field and make it successful.

"I am not going to rush into anything. I have a couple of businesses that I am already involved in but cricket is my life and it is very hard to get out of it. I am also paying particular attention to not just the fact that I can make a contribution towards cricket, through cricket administration or in the media. But also that I have touched the lives of a lot of people in the Caribbean, in Trinidad and Tobago, that are not necessarily lovers of the game and there is a lot to do beyond the boundary, in terms of trying to enhance the lives of people in Trinidad and Tobago."

A career in politics for Brian Charles Lara? If he chooses to, I pity his opponents.

Master blaster: The life and times of Brian Charles Lara

2 May 1969 Born in Cantaro, Trinidad & Tobago.

Major teams West Indies, Northern Transvaal, Trinidad & Tobago and Warwickshire.

1988 Made first-class debut for Trinidad & Tobago.

1990 Made West Indies debut, against Pakistan in Lahore. .

April 1994 Set Test record of 375 against England in Antigua.

June 1994 Made 501 for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston.

Family His daughter Sydney, eight, is named after the SCG, where he scored his first Test century, 277, in 1993.

* TESTS

Played 131

Runs 11,953

Batting average 52.88

100s/50s 34/48

Top score 400*

* ODIs

Matches 299

Runs scored 10,405

Batting average 40.48

100s/50s 19/63

Top score 169 

Brian Lara

Interview with Brian Lara

Interview with Brian Lara

Brian Lara

In an exclusive interview with Angus Fraser, the legendary batsman Brian Lara reveals what inspired him as he dispatched the world's best bowlers to the boundary and what the future holds now he has left the crease for the final time

Living in Brian Lara's neighborhood would not have been much fun when he was a child. Parents in Cantaro, Santa Cruz and Trinidad would spend their early evenings fearing that a ball of some description would come flying through their front window, while the young boys who played cricket with Lara in the street could spend an entire week bowling at him.

When I met up with Brian Charles Lara at Lord's, I asked him what it was that made him want to bat for such lengthy periods of time. Surely, after four or five hours at the crease, he must occasionally get bored?

"My drive has always been to bat," said Lara, holder of the world record for the highest individual first-class score, 501, and Test score, 400 not out. "When I played in my backyard I would bat for a week sometimes. We would play between four and six o'clock every evening, before I got called in for tea and to do my homework, and if my mates did not get me out on one day I would carry on batting the next. That was the rule and sometimes I would bat for a week."

Brian Lara

Did his mates ever feel they were getting a raw deal? "No," he said, smiling. "It was only 10 hours. They were always optimistic. They always believed they would get me out.

"For me, an innings starts at naught and ends when you walk off the field, and that was the most enjoyable part of it. You should not hasten anything and I never felt the desire to do so. I just felt that I was putting together an innings and it was up to the captain when he brought it to an end or, unfortunately, when on many occasions I have been out."

There are those of us who still do not want to accept the fact that we will never again have the pleasure of watching Lara bat live. His retirement from international cricket at the 2007 World Cup was sudden and it surprised everyone. He is still good enough to play - nobody could deny that. He scored 216 against Pakistan in his penultimate Test, and how much could the West Indies team touring England do with a player of his class in their side?

For 17 years, millions of cricket fans traveled to grounds or turned on their television sets excited by the prospect of watching the game's most thrilling and best modern-day batsman play. But now it has gone, cruelly taken away from us and it feels like bereavement.

Brian Lara

I always thought it was only fast bowlers who left cricket a physical wreck but the hours - sorry, years - Lara has spent crouched over his bat and running between the wickets have taken their toll. He may be only 38 but I could almost hear his body creak as he sat down next to me on a leather sofa.

"I never thought I was special," he said. "I just put in the work and enjoyed the process of working hard at my game. My first double century was not at school or at first-class level. It was playing cricket for the West Indies against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

"I just think that through each step of the way you work hard and you enjoy that process, and the end result is sometimes something that is out of this world, and everyone is amazed by it," he added.

"Wes Hall described me early on in my career as a superstar under construction but the construction period continued throughout my career until the moment I retired.

"I enjoy batting and I used to get to a point in my innings - it wasn't 100 but about 50 or 60 - when I felt I had seen everything the opposition had to offer. It was then up to me to dictate what happened. And then, because I enjoy batting, I carried on for as long as I could.

"I always remember when scoring my first hundred at Sydney that Rohan Kanhai [Western Indian batting legend] came up to me and told me to fill my boots. He put it very simply. He told me to score heavily now because you never know when the low scores will come. I have built on that over the years.

"My mental strength and my ability just to want to bat and enjoy it helped me enormously. I never got bored and I never wanted to score just a hundred, or, when I got to 175, to score 200. It never felt that way to me. It was always an innings under construction until it came to an end.

Brian Lara

"I enjoyed the challenge of being the opposition's main target. It was tough at times, but it was a good challenge. Knowing that a lot of the focus of the opposition was on me spurred me on. It was the thing you got into sport for. Tiger Woods gets the attention of not just the media but also that of the other players too. Everyone is looking at where he is and it is nice to know that you have reached a level in the sport where people recognize where you are or see you as the prize wicket."

Had he ever surprised himself? "No, not really," he said. “When I walked out to bat I visualized the best possible innings. I visualized myself playing well, so when that came to fruition it did not come as a surprise. There have been a few occasions when I have doubted myself. Mentally, I tried to stay as strong as possible when this happened, but there were occasions when I walked out to bat and I was not in the best frame of mind due to off-the-field factors. I remember in Australia in 2000 it happened when I went through a rut and doubted my ability to do things. I only got one good score."

What Lara failed to say was that the one score was the small matter of 182 in Adelaide. Expecting it to be his 400, 375 or 277 in Sydney, I asked him what series and innings gave him the greatest pleasure? "The series against Australia in 1999," he replied without thinking. "We had just come back from an unhappy tour in South Africa and there was a lot of trouble with the West Indies Cricket Board. I had been put on probation as captain for a couple of games and we had lost a few of our experienced players. Everybody thought a strong Australian team was going to tear us apart.

"We drew the series 2-2 and had an opportunity to regain the Frank Worrell Trophy, but they came back strongly in the final Test. That to me will go down as the best series that I have ever played in. I know a lot of people talk about my 153 in Barbados being my best innings, but the 213 I scored in the previous Test in Jamaica was better. The pressure I was under there - we had been bowled out for 51 in the first Test in Trinidad - was great and to produce that particular innings was to me the greatest show of character that I have ever shown."

As a cricketer, Lara has stood out like a beacon in a disappointing West Indies side but a failure to drag their cricket out of the doldrums is the major regret of his career. Honors boards that record centuries and five-wicket hauls taken by Test cricketers at each venue have become the vogue and it is amazing to think that Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan and Lara, four of the game's modern greats, do not adorn the walls of the visitors' dressing room at Lord's.

Brian Lara

"It is not a huge disappointment not to have scored a Test hundred at Lord's. From a very young age I wanted to play here and at your first Test match you get into the dressing room, see the boards and think that at some point in time it would be nice to get up there. I scored a hundred here for Warwickshire in 1994 and the fact that I have played at Lord's, and that I have played almost 500 matches for the West Indies leaves me with a great feeling."

And what does the future have in store for Brian Lara? "I have got a lot of opportunities, now that there is no cricket to play," he said. "I will sit down, look through the pile and see what is best for myself in terms of me as a person and what will maintain my image, which is something that I have carved out on the cricket field. I am sure I am capable of maintaining my, whatever it is, my integrity, my character, to enter any other field and make it successful.

"I am not going to rush into anything. I have a couple of businesses that I am already involved in but cricket is my life and it is very hard to get out of it. I am also paying particular attention to not just the fact that I can make a contribution towards cricket, through cricket administration or in the media. But also that I have touched the lives of a lot of people in the Caribbean, in Trinidad and Tobago, that are not necessarily lovers of the game and there is a lot to do beyond the boundary, in terms of trying to enhance the lives of people in Trinidad and Tobago."

A career in politics for Brian Charles Lara? If he chooses to, I pity his opponents.

Master blaster: The life and times of Brian Charles Lara

2 May 1969 Born in Cantaro, Trinidad & Tobago.

Major teams West Indies, Northern Transvaal, Trinidad & Tobago and Warwickshire.

1988 Made first-class debut for Trinidad & Tobago.

1990 Made West Indies debut, against Pakistan in Lahore. .

April 1994 Set Test record of 375 against England in Antigua.

June 1994 Made 501 for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston.

Family His daughter Sydney, eight, is named after the SCG, where he scored his first Test century, 277, in 1993.

* TESTS

Played 131

Runs 11,953

Batting average 52.88

100s/50s 34/48

Top score 400*

* ODIs

Matches 299

Runs scored 10,405

Batting average 40.48

100s/50s 19/63

Top score 169 

Brian Lara

South Africa vs West Indies Cricket World Cup 2011 Preview

NEW DELHI is ready to welcome guests from South Africa and West Indies for the seventh match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, which will be played at Delhi's historical Feroz Shah Kotla stadium on Thursday, February 24. Both South Africa and West Indies, who feature in the group 'B' teams, will start their ICC Cricket World cup 2011 campaign with this match.

South Africa, one of the strongest contenders of the world's biggest cricketing event, have never won tournament. Whereas, West Indies lifted the Cricket World Cup trophy last time 32 years back in the 1979 World Cup.

In the 50 ODIs played between South Africa and West Indies, the Proteas have won 37 times and the Caribbeans tasted victory 12 times. Both the teams had met four times in the Cricket World Cup and won two times each, and interestingly, all four matches have been won by the team batting first.

South African captain Graeme Smith, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis and Jacques Kallis can change the match any time in their favour. In the bowling department Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and Lonwabo Tsotsobe can destroy any batting line-up. South Africans are equally balanced in the fielding department. In the last five matches, the Proteas have won four matches and lost one against India.

Prior to the Cricket World Cup 2011, West Indies won one warm-up match against Kenya by 61 runs and lost to Sri Lanka by four wickets in the second warm-up match. The West Indian batting mainly depends on Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Shivnarine Chanderpaul. However, Darren Bravo and Kieron Pollard are very useful players for the side.

Here is the squad of South Africa and West Indies for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011:

South Africa: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk).

West Indies: Darren Sammy (Capt), Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Darren Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Devon Smith, Sulieman Benn, Nikita Miller, Andre Rusell, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Kirk Edwards, Devon Thomas (wk).

South Africa vs West Indies Live Streaming Highlights ICC World Cup 2011

 South Africa vs West indies Live Streaming Video Online Sopcast Channel

WATCH South Africa vs West indies LIVE STREAM HD TV OF ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP here. West Indies take on South Africa in the seventh game of the World Cup at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. This World Cup game will be a day-night encounter and will see the two sides meet in the World Cup cricket games for the fifth time. Both have won two games.

The West Indies team will look to depend on their batsmen to deliver the goods. This will be because the West Indian bowling is not too strong and it will need the likes of Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard to strike hard when it really matters.

Of course, the experience of Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul will also count for a lot.

South Africa will need to rely on the batting of Hashim Amla, who has been their best batsman in the last one year or so. With Jacques Kallis back from injury, things are looking good for the South Africa side, who will depend on the pair of Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel for a win. Watch Free Live Stream South Africa vs West indies ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Online Broadcast Here.

On opening World Cup warm up days Bangladesh and West Indies win

The first day of the World Cup warm-up games saw Sri Lanka, West Indies and Bangladesh cruise to easy wins in their respective games. Sri Lanka crushed Netherlands in a game at SSC in Colombo, West Indies ran home in a reasonably tough game against Kenya while Bangladesh pounded the Canada side to take home a lot of confidence before the start of the World Cup.

Sri Lanka batted first against Netherlands and scored a whopping 351 in their 50 overs. This was mainly possible due to an innings of substance from T Dilshan (78) and because of the valuable support that he got from the other half century-scorers in the team. Thilan Samaraweera, promoted to the number three position got a 60, while Chamara Silva and Chamara apugedera scored 54 and 50 respectively. Strangely enough, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene did not bat in the game.

In reply, Netherlands did not have any chance of crossing over the line and looked deflated from the very beginning. They lost wickets at regular intervals and collapsed to 37/4 at one stage before being rescued by the captain of the day - Bas Zuiderent and Tom de Grooth. Zuiderent made 38 while Grooth scored 76 as the side was taken to a relative position of safety, ending with 195 all out. Dilhara Fernando ran through the tail and ended with a haul of four wickets.

In another game of the World Cup warm-ups, West Indies took on Kenya at the SSC in Colombo. West Indies batted first and after the early trouble that they were in at 65/4, were propelled to a decent total by Ramnaresh Sarwan. Sarwan made a century and ended on 123 off 125 balls while his partnership with Dwayne Bravo (54) ensured that the side had had a decent 253/8 in the 50 overs.

Kenya did have a good enough start to their innings and were 98/1 at one stage. Unfortunately for them, they had used up many overs to get there and in the quest to quell the mounting asking rate, the side was bowled out for 192. Andre Russell bagged four wickets.

In the third game of the day, Canada were bowled out for 112 batting first at Chittagong. Shakib al Hasan had three wickets to his name before Tamim Iqbal raced off to a fantastic 69 to push the side to a nine-wicket win over the Canadians.

West Indies Vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI Watch Online Live Streaming and Highlights Jan 31, 2011

Sri Lanka Vs West Indies 1st ODI Watch Online Live Streaming Date: Jan 31, 2011 (14:30 local | 09:00 GMT | 14:30 IST) Watch Sri Lanka vs West Indies 1st ODI Live match Streams On your PC Tv On Jan-01-2011 here.

The first ODI of the three match series between West Indies and Sri Lanka will be played at the SSC in Sri Lanka. This series was earlier scheduled to be played in November-December last year but was postponed to January because of inclement weather and one hopes that none of the three games will be disrupted. Interestingly, some of the games in the series were to be played at Hambantota but the ICC objected to it given that the rules stipulate that none of the sides can play at venues to be used for the World Cup so close to the tournament. West Indies will use this series to acclimatize to the conditions for the World Cup. They will be led by Darren Sammy with the likes of Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard to allow them to get a move on. as compared to that, Sri Lanka will try out their 15 players announced for the World Cup including Chamara Kapugedera and give them an extended run. Watch Sri Lanka v West Indies 1st Test Match Now live stream below. 

Sri Lanka Squad: KC Sangakkara(C)(W), TM Dilshan, HMRKB Herath, DPMD Jayawardene, S Randiv, CK Kapugedera, KMDN Kulasekara, SL Malinga, AD Mathews, BAW Mendis, BMAJ Mendis, NLTC Perera, TT Samaraweera, LPC Silva, WU Tharanga


West Indies Squad: DJG Sammy(C), AB Barath, CS Baugh(W), SJ Benn, DJ Bravo, DM Bravo, S Chanderpaul, KA Edwards, CH Gayle, NO Miller, KA Pollard, R Rampaul, KAJ Roach, AD Russell, DS Smith


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West Indies vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI at Hambantota on Jan 31, 2011 Watch live

Sri Lanka would take on West Indies in the 1st ODI match of the West Indies tour of Sri Lanka 2010. The match will be hosted at Colombo. Schedule time of Match is 10:00 Local Time (04:30 GMT). The match is schedule to be played on Jan 31, 2011. The match would be played in day time. Get List of all Cricket Matches between West Indies vs Sri Lanka.