The Proteas treated their supporters to yet another clinical performance as they crushed Bangladesh by 206 runs to send the co-hosts crashing out of the World Cup while South Africa rocketed to the top of Group B.

South Africa decided to rest Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and AB de Villiers, which might have given Bangladesh some hope.

World Cup 2011, Group B: Match 1
India: 370/4 (Sehwag 175, Kohli 100*) beat Bangladesh: 283/9 (Iqbal 70, Shakib 55, M Patel 4-48) by 87 runs.

Bangladesh, for so long the perennial whipping boys of international cricket, will be hopeful of changing that perception when they arrive at the ICC World Twenty20.

    However, they will have to achieve that on the back of precious little international T20 cricket.

    Since the last World Twenty20 in 2009, in which Bangladesh lost both their matches, to India and Ireland respectively, they have only played two international T20 matches.

    They lost to West Indies in August last year before being thumped, by 10 wickets, by New Zealand in February.