Giant fast bowler Mervyn Dillon bowled West Indies into the last eight of the Champions Trophy with a devastating spell to destroy Bangladesh on Wednesday.
Trinidadian Dillon, who stands 6ft 6ins (2 meters), ripped through the Bangladesh top order with a spell of four for six in 24 balls on the way to a West Indian win by 131 runs.
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Dillon, who has lost his Test place, finished with impressive figures of 5-29 as Bangladesh fell to 131 all out in reply to West Indies' total of 269-3 from their 50 overs.
The pace bowler struck in his second, third, fourth and fifth overs to remove Javed Omar, Nafis Iqbal, Khaled Mashud and Bangladesh's 20-year-old captain Rajin Saleh.
The only resistance came in a stand of 45 for the sixth wicket between Aftab Ahmed and Mushfiqur Rahman which ended when Dwayne Bravo bowled Aftab for a defiant 21.
Khaled Mahmud hit an aggressive 34 to finish as his side's top scorer and shared a partnership of 26 for the final wicket but their stand only delayed the inevitable.
Earlier Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds hit 192 for the first West Indian wicket as Bangladesh struggled to contain their opponents at the Rose Bowl.
"I thought we executed our game plan well today," said West Indies skipper Brian Lara.
"Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds laid the foundations with an excellent first wicket partnership and we took it on from there. I would have liked us to have got 300 but anything over 250 is good on the Rose Bowl."
Bangladesh coach Dav Whatmore could not hide his disappointment at the way his young team were steamrollered to defeat.
"I really thought we would put up a better showing. I found it painful to watch and it was painful for everyone connected with Bangladesh cricket," Whatmore said.
The West Indian players wore black armbands in tribute to those who had lost their lives in the wake of Hurricane Ivan that swept through the Caribbean this week.
Gayle and Hinds both took advantage of fielding lapses as West Indies finished with a formidable score of 269-3.
Gayle made 99 and Hinds hit 82 but both were missed in the field during their partnership which equalled the best for a first wicket stand in the Champions Trophy set by Virender Sehwag and Sourav Ganguly against England in 2002.
Gayle was eventually caught behind by Khaled Mashud just one run short of his tenth one-day century but not before he had laid the foundations for a solid West Indian score.
The left-hander was fortunate to survive a sharp return chance at 46 to Khaled Mahmud while Hinds was lucky not to be given out at 28 when television replays showed he had been caught behind off the same bowler.
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