Party boys or professionals?

The tournament hasn’t started but the late-night rumours about the West Indians have. Brian Lara insists he doesn’t know anything about his boys partying before the nine-wicket warm-up loss to India.

"I doubt that with the sort of importance of this tournament that that would have been the case,” he said in the Jamaica Gleaner. "I'm sure that if the management, Clive Lloyd or Bennett King, knows about it they would definitely filter it down to myself.”

Lara says his players are professional and understand the sort of preparation they need to perform at their best. They have the first chance to show their qualities when they open the tournament against Pakistan on Tuesday.