Verdict

Scotland were dispatched in a predictably perfunctory fashion

Martin Williamson sees Kenya set out their stall for a place in the Super Eights

Virender Sehwag fails again, Irfan Pathan searches for rhythm, and the West Indies collapse again ... Anand Vasu hopes this is not a sign of things to come

Virender Sehwag's poor form and Yuvraj Singh's failures since returning from injury were both concerns ahead of this game, but both men struck form and eased some of India's main worries ahead of the flight to the Caribbean

For India to successfully chase one of those tricky in-between totals against a team that are acknowledged masters of the slow choke was especially creditable

Andrew Miller on an incredible series triumph for England

Sri Lanka gave ample warning of just how dangerous a one-day team they are, and the importance of proper combinations, pulling off a tightly-fought but superbly executed win over India.

England have been to hell and back on this never-ending tour of Australia, but nobody has travelled further than Paul Collingwood

The time will come soon to see the back of Tendulkar, Dravid and Ganguly. For the moment, though, in the approach to the World Cup, fans would do well to treasure the occasional pearls that they drop

Osman Samiuddin's verdict on the thirdand final day at Cape Town

Where are the stump mics when you really need them? Having suckered Herschelle Gibbs at Centurion, they failed to capture what might have been the most intriguing conversation of the day

India continued a fine tradition of defending low totals, especially against West Indies but hopefully the team management won't gloss over another miserable top-order capitulation on a pitch that wasn't the featherbed that they seem to require these days

Trying to prove that bowlers win you Test matches and batsmen only save them is a bit like trying to prove whether the chicken or the egg came first. Both are essentially self-defeating arguments

Now that Jane Goody has been relieved of her duties as one of the prime exhibits in the freakshow that is Big Brother, people's attentions may divert to Port Elizabeth, where an equally almighty dogfight is currently underway

Sourav Ganguly can be shunted into the wilderness, and seem to be finished for good, but he will invariably make a comeback, like today when he returned with a dazzling 98

Inzamam-ul-Haq showed one of the ways to marshal the tail as he and Mohammad Asif added 74 at Port Elizabeth

Every now and again - just so that the world can keep on spinning, karma can remain aligned and humans sane - it's good to have a day like this