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West Indies slide to third defeat

West Indies' hopes of reaching the World Cup semi-finals all but disappeared when they lost to Sri Lanka in Guyana yesterday, …

Mon Apr 02 2007 - 01:00

West Indies' hopes of reaching the World Cup semi-finals all but disappeared when they lost to Sri Lanka in Guyana yesterday, their third successive Super Eight defeat.

Sanath Jayasuriya hit his 25th one-day international century and his second ton of this year's World Cup as Sri Lanka hammered the West Indies bowlers to reach 303-5 at the end of their 50 overs. The total proved well beyond the home team after a disastrous start and they were all out for 190 to lose by 113 runs.

Jayasuriya struck 115 off 101 balls with 10 fours and four sixes and shared a third-wicket partnership of 183 with skipper Mahela Jayawardene (82) to put their team in a solid position.

In their reply, the West Indies collapsed to 42 for 3, including having captain Brian Lara stumped for just two runs off four balls.

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Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan gave brief hopes of an unlikely victory but Sarwan's dismissal, stumped for 44, sparked a mini-collapse.

Chanderpaul soldiered on but was finally yorked by Malinga on 76 to effectively end West Indies' hopes.

West Indies v Sri Lanka

(In Guyana, West Indies Won Toss)

Sri Lanka Innings

WU Tharanga b DB Powell 8

ST Jayasuriya b DB Powell 115

KC Sangakkara c Ramdin b Bradshaw 7

DPM Jayawardene b Bravo 82

LPC Silva c Lara b Sarwan 23

TM Dilshan not out 39

RP Arnold not out 4

Extras (lb7 w13 nb5) 25

Total (5 wkts, 50 overs) ... 303

Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-35, 3-218, 4-251, 5-268.

Bowling: Taylor 8-1-32-0, Powell 10-1-38-2, Bradshaw 10-0-67-1, Smith 3-0-23-0, Gayle 9-0-61-0, Bravo 7-0-59-1, Sarwan 3-0-16-1.

West Indies Innings

CH Gayle c Fernando b Malinga 10

DJ Bravo b Vaas 21

S Chanderpaul b Malinga 76

BC Lara st Sangakkara b Vaas 2

RR Sarwan st Sangakkara b Jayasuriya 44

M N Samuels lbw b M Muralitharan 3

D R Smith run out 0

D Ramdin c Vaas b Jayasuriya 2

I D R Bradshaw not out 6

J E Taylor lbw b M Muralitharan 13

D B Powell b Jayasuriya2

Extras (lb 1, w 8, nb 2) ... 11

Total (44.4 overs) 190

Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-40, 3-42.

Bowling: WPUJC Vaas 8-1-19-2, SL Malinga 3-0-20-1, CRD Fernando 7-3-19-0, TM Dilshan 4-0-11-0, RP Arnold 3-0-9-0, M Muralitharan 5-0-24-0, ST Jayasuriya 2.5-0-19-0.

Sri Lanka won by 113 runs.