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ICC World Cup Cricket Match 2007
West Indies vs South Africa
Super 8, Match 13, SA vs WI: South Africa beat West Indies by 67 runs
Apr 10, 2007
West Indies saw their World Cup dreams all but ended after a crushing 67-run defeat against South Africa in Grenada.
A fantastic innings by Ramnaresh Sarwan came to an abrupt end when Pollock caught him off the bowling of Ntini for 92. Sarwan missed out on a well-deserved hundred as the West Indian hopes of making a comeback went awry with the fall of his wicket.
It was the turn of the South African captain, Graeme Smith, to come to the party when he got Denesh Ramdin caught at short mid-wicket by Peterson for 4.
Bravo lost his wicket to Pollock when he tried to lift one above short mid-wicket but was caught brilliantly by Gibbs for 6. He was soon followed by Pollard who lost his middle-stump to Kallis for 10.
Brian Lara was the next man to go for the West Indies when he gave charge to Kallis but ended up losing his stumps. Kallis struck early getting the big West Indian fish for 21 runs.
After a flurry a runs both Devon Smith and Chris Gayle departed in quick succession. It was a stroke of bad luck for the West Indians who were scoring at a prolific rate till now. The loss of these two stroke-makers has caused a severe setback to the home team.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul became the first casualty of West Indies as they started the mammoth run chase of 357 runs against South Africa. Graeme Smith took an easy catch and Shaun Pollock an easy wicket as Chanderpaul drove the ball in hunger for runs. Chanderpaul made just 4 runs from 7 balls.
Reported Earlier: South Africa put behind them their shocking loss to Bangladesh the other day with a superlative batting performance to post a mammoth 356-4 in 50 overs against a hapless West Indian bowling attack in a Super Eight match at Grenada on Tuesday.
Skipper Brian Laras decision to insert South Africa into bat seemed momentarily justified when Correy Collymore sent back rival captain Graeme Smith just for 7 in after 7 overs.
West Indies moment of joy proved to be short lived as what followed thereafter was total massacre as the Proteas top order led by AB de Villiers magnificent 146 off 130 balls paved the way for a huge total.
Reported Earlier: West Indies have decided to bowl first after winning the toss against South Africa in a must-win Super 8 game of the World Cup at National Cricket Stadium,Grenada.
The Windies have decided to go into this game with Corey Collymore , who would be replacing Jerome Taylor. The Proteas have made two changes to their side, Charle Langeveldt and Justin Kemp have been kept out and they would be replaced by Andrew Hall and Loots Bosman.
South Africa team: G C Smith, A B de Villiers, J H Kallis, H H Gibbs, A G Prince, L L Bosman, M V Boucher, S M Pollock, A J Hall, A Nel, M Ntini
West Indies team: S Chanderpaul, C H Gayle, R R Sarwan, D S Smith, B C Lara, D J Bravo, K A Pollard, D Ramdin, I D R Bradshaw, D B Powell, C D Collymore
World Cup Super 8, Match 13, Grenada: South Africa 356-4 (50.0 overs) beat West Indies 289-9 (50.0 overs) by 67 runs
Super 8, Match 13, SA vs WI: West Indies face South Africa in a must win super 8 game in Grenada
Apr 10, 2007
West Indies meet South Africa in a must-win Super Eight game in Grenada on Tuesday to keep their hopes alive of staying in contentions for a semi-final berth of the World Cup.
A defeat to Proteas will shut their chances of progressing beyond the Super 8s as the home team is yet to win a second round match following their downfall against Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
South Africa too will be aiming at recovering from their shock loss to Bangladesh on Saturday and would be hoping to be back on track for a semis berth.
Going by records, South Africa have lost just six times in 21 one-day internationals to West Indies this decade and more significantly, they triumphed 5-0 in a one-day series in the Caribbean in 2005.
South Africa team (from): G Smith (capt), J Kallis, L Bosman, M Boucher, AB de Villiers, H Gibbs, A Hall, J Kemp, C Langeveldt, A Nel, M Ntini, R Peterson, S Pollock, A Prince, R Telemachus.
West Indies team (from): B Lara (capt), R Sarwan, C Gayle, Dwayne Smith, S Chanderpaul, D Bravo, M Samuels, I Bradshaw, C Collymore, J Taylor, D Ramdin, Devon Smith, L Simmons, D Powell, K Pollard.
Umpires: M R Benson, D J Harper West Indies: S Chanderpaul, C H Gayle, R R Sarwan, D S Smith, B C Lara, D J Bravo, K A Pollard, D Ramdin, I D R Bradshaw, D B Powell, C D Collymore South Africa: G C Smith, A B de Villiers, J H Kallis, H H Gibbs, A G Prince, L L Bosman, M V Boucher, S M Pollock, A J Hall, A Nel, M Ntini
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
The 2007 Cricket World Cup was hosted by the West Indies from March 11 to April 28, 2007. It was contested by 16 nations.
The ten Test Match-playing countries qualified for the World Cup automatically, along with Kenya, which had ODI status and five further teams qualified via the 2005 ICC Trophy. The field of sixteen teams was the largest ever for the Cricket World Cup.
The teams were divided into 4 groups, with each group playing its matches at one ground.
The top two teams from each group competed in a Super 8 format, similar to the previous "Super 6" format, from which the semi-finalists were decided. Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and South Africa won through to the semi-finals, with Australia defeating Sri Lanka in the final to win their third consecutive World Cup.
There were 51 matches overall, spread over eight venues across the West Indies, which were selected to host the World Cup final tournament.
Notable events of the tournament included the death of Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, which happened one day after his team's defeat to Ireland, which put them out of the running for the World Cup. India scored 413-5 in 50 overs against Bermuda, breaking the World Cup record for the highest team total. Herschelle Gibbs hit six sixes in one Daan van Bunge over for South Africa against the Netherlands, becoming the first player to achieve the feat in ODI cricket. Australia became the first team to win 3 consecutive World Cups.
I fully expect us to win every game we play, it doesn't matter what the make-up of the team is. Ricky Ponting, Australian skipper.
Is this a resignation issue? I'll have to talk with my superiors on that. former New Zealand captain and Match referee Jeff Crowe on the blunder by him and the umpires which
caused the farcical scenes at the end of the World Cup final.
I guess it was nice to finish off with a catch behind with Gilly. McGrath on Gilchrist catching Arnold to give him his last ODI wicket. He is the tournament's leading wicket-taker
with a record haul of 25 wickets and the most successful World Cup bowler of all-time.
It was really pleasing to do it on an important day. I've been getting a lot of starts but hadn't converted. Adam Gilchrist who smashed a final record 149 off 104 balls to set up the
victory.
It was simply a brilliant innings from Gilchrist, unfortunately I was the opposition captain watching it. Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene about Adam Gilchrist's 149 off just
104 balls.
My learned commentary is, my commentary is congratulations to Ricky and the boys, but to Glenn McGrath, that lanky bloke from Narromine, thanks for a wonderful contribution to Australian cricket. Prime Minister "cricket tragic" John Howard.
We listen to criticism, and there has been a lot of it from people saying it's been too long - so we'll look to make it shorter. ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed.