West Indies won the toss and elected to bat against Pakistan

Pakistan

According to the fresh reports from the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, Pakistan is all set to face West Indies in today’s First match of the ICC Cricket World Cup quarter finals match Played at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur (neutral venue)

Three changes for West Indies: Gayle, Chanderpaul and Roach come in for Edwards, Benn and Andre Russell

One change for Pakistan: Saeed Ajmal will come in for Rehman.

We shall squeeze in some reader comments here. The captain's quotes are below.

Tim: "Would have preferred to see Russell instead of Rampaul but other than that like both these teams.

Glad Windies showed the guts to drop Benn, who has been very disappointing."

Farrukh: "good to see ajmal back in team...west indies dint inducted suleman benn in their attack...so roach,rampaul and bichoo would be their main weapons...but Pakistan have much better bowling then windies...inshallah we will win...:)"

Mark Kidger: "It's nearly 2 years since the Windies beat a top-level opponent in an ODI. Pakistan are playing very impressive cricket, so all logic says that this should be one-sided, but will Pakistan have an off-day after their great win against Australia? Long winning and losing sequences always end some time!"

Pakistan team:-

Mohammad Hafeez, Kamran Akmal†, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi*, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal.

West Indies team:-

DS Smith, CH Gayle, RR Sarwan, DM Bravo, KA Pollard, DC Thomas†, DJG Sammy*, D Bishoo, R Rampaul, S Chanderpaul, KAJ Roach.

Umpires BF Bowden (New Zealand) and SJ Davis (Australia)
TV umpire DJ Harper (Australia)
Match referee BC Broad (England)
Reserve umpire BNJ Oxenford (Australia)