So Sri Lanka will meet Australia in the semi final. This also means, no back-door entry to the semi final for New Zealand, it is bye bye time for the Kiwis. So Sri Lanka win by 74 runs. Surely the turning point was Andy Flower's dismissal in the 29th over. Sri Lanka won the toss this morning, and went on to make 256/5 in their 50 overs. Marvan Atapattu made a polished 103* off 127 balls.
Zimbabwe were quite positive about their run chase, they opened with Wishart and Marillier - two hard hitting batsmen. Marillier made 19, looked good to go for a bigger one, but skied a catch off Gunaratne. Travis Friend was promoted up the order, he made 21. Wishart hung around to make 43. Andy Flower, that wonderful cricketer from Zimbabwe was playing his final international game, and he was done in by the umpire Jerling - given out lbw, completely ignoring the big inside edge. Sad to see a great man leave like that from the international scene. And after that Zimbabwe batting just folded. All they could make was 182 all out in 41.5 overs. There is another Super Six game going on right now - between Australia and Kenya, stay with us for the live coverage of that game.
Sri Lanka v Australia - the big semi final will be played on 18th of March, Tuesday, at Port Elizabeth. Live Coverage of that game will start at 0750 Hrs GMT Thanks for being with us. As we all say Good-Bye to Andy Flower. Cheers!
MoM Marvan Atapattu