Venue
Shere Bangla Stadium is a ground with a good record for sides batting second. Of 46 matches, 18 have been won by the team batting first and 28 by the side batting second. The average score batting first on this ground is 219. In the 19 floodlit matches on the ground, five have been won by the side batting first, 14 by the side batting second. Average score batting first 243.
Star Players-Pakistan
Shahid Afridi is the leading wicket-taker in the tournament with 17 wickets at 11.47, including five-wicket hauls against Kenya and Canada. He has taken a wicket every 19 balls and his economy rate is 3.55 runs per over in his six matches. Afridi has 309 ODI wickets and only Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis have taken more wickets for Pakistan. His time at the crease in this World Cup has been short, with 20 in 17 balls against Canada his longest innings. But his batting is to be feared as he is the only player to have scored five ODI fifties in 20 balls or fewer, four of them against major opposition. He holds the record for the fastest 100, scored against Sri Lanka in 37 balls. He has a batting average of just 23.65, but his strike rate is 113.95. This will be his 300th ODI innings and he will become the ninth player to pass that mark, the second for Pakistan after Inzamam-ul-Haq.
Star Players-West Indies
Chris Gayle has underperformed so far and West Indies need him to score heavily if they are to progress in this competition. Apart from 80 against the Netherlands, he has not really fired. He has not made an ODI 100 for 33 matches, the last being in January 2009. His only World Cup hundred in 19 matches was scored against Kenya at Kimberley in 2002-03 and he has only two scores over fifty against major opposition in the competition. He is the leading ODI wicket-taker in the current West Indies squad, but he has only played four matches since arriving on the subcontinent and has limited his bowling to just six overs because of an abdominal strain. He has taken 156 ODI wickets at 35.07 with an economy rate of 4.73. In the World Cup he has nine wickets at 52.78, economy rate 4.79.
Milestones
Misbah-ul-Haq needs 51 for 2,000 runs.
Shoaib Akhtar, 35, in his third and final World Cup needs three wickets for 250. He played in the 1999 World Cup as did the often overlooked Abdul Razzaq, still only 31 with 266 wickets.
Devon Smith needs 26 for 1,000 runs. Chris Gayle needs one catch to take 100. (AP)