The West Indies ended a four-match losing streak Thursday at the Cricket World Cup when its pace bowlers wrecked Bangladesh's batting to clinch a 99-run win Bridgetown, Barbados.

Ramnaresh Sarwan's unbeaten 91 resurrected the West Indies innings to 230 for five before pacemen Daren Powell and Corey Collymore joined the party by bundling Bangladesh out for 131 in the 44th over.

West Indies captain Brian Lara, right, advises Dwayne Bravo on Thursday.
(B.K. Bangash/Associated Press)

Before this result, West Indies was the only team not to have won a match in the Super 8s league that even featured victories for unheralded Bangladesh and debutant Ireland.

Brian Lara's team had lost heavily to Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and South Africa.

Collymore (2-11) induced edges from Aftab Ahmed and Shakib al Hasan into wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin's gloves.

Powell (3-38) then ripped through the middle order to leave Bangladesh tottering at 52 for six.

The fight had been taken out of Bangladesh when Mashrafee Murtaza (37) shared a seventh-wicket partnership of 58 with Mushfiqur Rahim, who remained unbeaten on 38.

Pace bowler Dwayne Bravo and left-arm spinner Chris Gayle returned identical figures of two for 28 by running through the lower order.

Two-time World Cup winner West Indies and unheralded Bangladesh are both out of title contention having failed to make it to the last four.

Defending champion Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and South Africa have already filled in the semifinal spots.

The West Indies is hoping to salvage some pride from its last two outings after being outplayed in the previous four matches.

The hosts still have another game left, Saturday's match against England, in what will be a precursor to their Test and limited-overs series in England starting next month.

Lara leaving West Indies

The game in Barbados will be the last for West Indies captain Lara, who is retiring from competitive cricket.

Bangladesh returns home with its best performance in the premier limited-overs tournament after defeating former champion India in the preliminary round and South Africa in the Super 8s.

Sarwan came close to his maiden World Cup century as he helped resurrect the West Indies from a top-order slump and slow run-rate.

Sarwan shared an innings-building partnership of 81 for the fourth wicket with Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who compiled an 85-ball 50.

Sarwan struck two sixes and five boundaries off 90 deliveries to keep West Indies moving.

Lara contributed a 27-ball cameo of 33 that featured two sixes before he lofted left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak to Javed Omar in the covers.

West Indies got off to a torrid start, losing openers Devon Smith (5) and Gayle (1) with just eight runs on the board.

The Bangladesh seamers justified captain Habibul Bashar's decision to put the opposition in after winning the toss.

Smith perished in the third over as he played inside the line of Murtaza's outswinging delivery that hit his off stump.

Five deliveries later, paceman Syed Rasel removed out of form Gayle, whose poor run of scores continued as he was trapped leg before.

Marlon Samuels survived a first-ball edge to the slips and took time to get settled.

He then unleashed some pleasant strokes as he posted a 66-ball 31 that contained four hits to the fence.

Rasel struck for 3 boundaries

Samuels struck Rasel for three boundaries, but was deceived by left-arm spinner Shakib who found the edge for wicketkeeper Rahim to take the catch.

Chanderpaul and Sarwan then grafted for runs against the accurate left-arm spinning trio of Shakib, Razzak and Mohammad Rafique, who managed to extract spin from the bare pitch.

Sarwan showed his aggressive instincts by swinging Shakib to the midwicket fence and then lofting Rafique over extra-cover.

Chanderpaul departed after completing his half-century, clean bowled by seamer Ahmed and Lara then helped Sarwan add 59 brisk runs.

In reply, Bangladesh failed to cope with the bounce generated by the West Indies pacemen.

Opener Tamil Iqbal survived being dismissed on the third ball from Collymore as skipper Lara spilled a sitter in the slips.

But he was run out for seven in a terrible mixup with opening partner Omar.

Ahmed (6) and Shakib (0) were beaten by the bounce in Collymore's deliveries before Powell struck.

Mohammad Ashraful (2) miscued a rising ball from Powell to Samuels at square-leg, Omar (16) nicked the ball to Gayle at first slip and another one flew off Bashar's (12) bat to Bravo at third slip.