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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Former champions Sri Lanka will not reduce their intensity in their remaining matches in the Super Eights despite qualifying for the World Cup semi-finals, team manager Michael Tissera said today.
New Zealand beat South Africa by five wickets on Saturday to follow defending champions Australia into the last four. Sri Lanka also qualified as South Africa and England, who meet in Barbados on Tuesday, cannot both reach eight points.
"We would like to take it game by game," Tissera told Reuters from St. George's, Grenada.
"Every game is important whether we have qualified or not," he said. "Let us wait until the next game is over."
Sri Lanka face unbeaten Australia in Grenada on Monday before meeting debutants Ireland, who are winless, in their final Super Eights match on Wednesday.
The 1996 champions have been in excellent touch and have lost just one game, by one wicket to South Africa.
The positions the sides finish in the top four will determine who plays who in the semi-finals.
- REUTERS
