It’s a final matching power against precision, brawn versus brain. It’s the highly colourful West Indies playing the clinical hosts Sri Lanka.u00a0There’s never been a greater collection of power hitters assembled in one team. Led by the belligerent Gayle, the West Indies boast of Kieron Pollard, Marlon Samuels, Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles, Andre Russell, Dwayne Smith and even the captain Darren Sammy, all players who can make any cricket boundary look like a 30-metre circle measured from the centre of the pitch. Keeping that lot in check is going to take all the tactical nous the mentally well-endowed Mahela Jayawardene can muster.

Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene looks at the ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup trophy during a photo shoot in Colombo on Saturday u00a0Pic/AFP