Balaji Rao

Canada's captain Ashish Bagai has praised his side's bowling and fielding effort against Pakistan, but said the bastmen could not execute the plans of playing their natural games and seeing off Shahid Afridi

Zimbabwe's spinners completed the job started by batsmen Tatenda Taibu and Craig Ervine, maintaining an asphyxiating grip on Canada's batsmen to secure a 175-run win

With players of seven different nationalities, Canada are often called the United Nations of cricket, and are hopeful of causing an upset or two in the World Cup

Sri Lanka held their nerve to quell the plucky resistance of Canada, whose opener, Rizwan Cheema, struck an entertaining 43-ball 68 which so nearly caused an unlikely upset