Watch the highlights of West Indies vs Sri Lanka 29th Match Benson & Hedges World Cup 1992 - Benson & Hedges World Cup tournament of the 29th ODI match played between Sri Lanka and West Indies at Berri Oval, Berri on 13th March 1992.
Phil Simmons' brilliant century before Carl Hooper, Curtly Ambrose and Keith Arthurton's each two wickets helped to West Indies thumping 91-run victory over Sri Lanka
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West Indies scored 268-8 in 50 overs with top scorer by Phil Simmons cracked a career-best 110 off 125-balls - which was his 2nd ODI hundred and his first century against Sri Lanka in ODIs.
Keith Arthurton scored 40 off 54-balls including a boundary, Desmond Haynes hit 38 off 47-balls included 3-fours & a six.
Winston Benjamin cracked a unbeaten 24 off 20-balls including a four and Curtly Ambrose hit a unbeaten 15 off 14-balls contained a six.
Sri Lanka best bowler by Chandika Hathurusinghe claimed a 4-wickets for 64-runs in 8-overs, Champaka Ramanayake, Arjuna Ranatunga and Don Anurasiri each took one-wickets.
Sri Lanka scored 177-9 in the allotted 50 overs with top scorer by Athula Samarasekera struck 40 off 41-balls including 4-fours & a six.
Arjuna Ranatunga cracked a 24 off 40-balls including a six, Pramodya Wickramasinghe hit a run-a-ball 21-runs included a four and Chandika Hathurusinghe scored 16 off 25-balls without a boundary.
West Indies best bowler by Carl Hooper captured 2-wickets for 19-runs in 10-overs including a maiden with economy rate of 1.90, Curtly Ambrose took two-wickets for 24-runs in 10-overs included 2-maidens with economy rate of 2.40, Keith Arthurton took 2-wickets and one for Winston Benjamin - Anderson Cummins.
Phil Simmons named Player of the match for his brilliant batting performance to scored a career-best 110-runs knocked off facing 125-balls including 8-fours & 2-sixes.
This match reported by The Canberra Times Staff (Third Party Reference from The Canberra Times)
The West Indies captain, Richie Richardson, is looking forward to a "cut-throat" clash with Australia next week after his side knocked Sri Lanka out of World Cup finals contention in Berri.
Their 91-run victory over the Sri Lankans gives the Windies eight points from seven World Cup matches but only a win over the Australians in Melbourne in a day-night match on Wednesday will ensure Richardson" men qualify for the semi-finals. It is the last round-robin match for both teams.
Richardson said last night that the match with Australia was a confrontation he had been savouring because the Australians had dominated recently in limited-over contests between the two countries, "They'll be playing against the West Indies and everybody wants to cut our throats," Richardson said.
"Regardless of the situation, we always like to beat Australia." The Windies posted a hefty 8-268 from 50 overs yesterday after. being sent in with the temperature at 38 C.
Trinidad's Phil Simmons starred with a one-day international career-best 110 off 125 balls to earn the man-of-the-match honour.
The Sri Lankans, who a week ago were sitting pretty in third place in the Cup standings, never made much of a challenge, batting out the 50 overs for 9-177 to at least keep the small, enthusiastic crowd of 2650 Riverland cricket lovers entertained.
The Sri Lankan captain, Aravinda De Silva, said, "We played badly the last three games and we deserved to lose today. We gave away far too many easy runs early on."
Simmons was dropped twice on 47. while Desmond Haynes (38) and Winston Benjamin (24 not out) were also given lives.
Simmons, 28, was only included in the side due to continuing concern over paceman Malcolm Marshall's injured ankle.
But he has given the Windies' selectors a lot to think about with a hard-hitting innings that included nine fours and two sixes.
The tall right-hander had his skull fractured by Gloucestershire and England paceman David Lawrence at Bristol during the 1988 Windies tour and spent several months recovering.
His century was the sixth in the Cup competition and beat his previous best one-day score of 104 not out against India at Trivandrum in India in January, 1988.
The West Indies manager. Deryck Murray, would not allow Simmons to be interviewed after game, Although the Windies built an imposing total, they struggled in the final stages after Simmons departed caught in the deep in the 40th over at 4-197.
Five wickets were lost for 31 runs in 35 balls with part-time medium pacer Chandika Hathurusinghe picking up three wickets in two overs at one stage.
But Curtly Ambrose and Benjamin combined for a 40-run ninth-wicket stand to post a healthy tally.
There was not much to write about Sri Lanka's innings, save for opener Athula Samarasekera's 40 off 41 balls.
Sri Lanka, which has had a terrible schedule crossing the Tasman and travelling to various places in Australia, must head to Perth from Berri today to prepare for Sunday's final clash with Pakistan.
"It's very, very unfair." De Silva said.
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