Jayasuriya's masterclass, and Vaas' first stumping

At the end of the day, Sanath Jayasuriya's century - 115 off 101 balls with four sixes - could give you the impression that it was a typical blast from the start. It wasn't. The bowlers ended up being carted all over Providence as the strike-rate indicates but the beginning was very different.

Jayasuriya was deprived of much of the strike during the Powerplays and it wasn't until the seventh over that he hit his first boundary. He faced just 19 balls in the opening ten overs and by the end of the 15th he had 14 off 33 deliveries. His low strike-rate was largely due to Daren Powell, who bowled 19 deliveries in all against Jayasuriya and conceded only nine runs.

It was only after Brian Lara took the final Powerplay that Jayasuriya cut loose. He hammered 36 runs off his next 14 balls to reach his fifty off 47 deliveries. From then on, there was no let up in his momentum. Powell apart, the other bowlers were guilty of straying too wide or too straight, or in Chris Gayle's case, too much down leg side. Jayasuriya scored 40 runs in the arc between fine leg and square leg.