There are only three more matches left in the tournament and the race for the Man of the Tournament is hotting up. New Zealand have no more games remaining and their fast bowler Tim Southee is the leading contender with 11 points. Virat Kohli is second with nine and a game in hand. A Man-of-the-Match performance in the final will clinch it for Virat but if he doesn't win it the trophy will have to be couriered to Southee. Because New Zealand are on their way home tonight.

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West Indies and Nepal also arrived from Johor today and will contest the Plate Championship final on Saturday. From the interactions with players, West Indies weren't overly thrilled because they failed to make the Super League and have brushed away their opposition in the Plate rounds. For Nepal, however, it's a massive deal for it's their second consecutive
Plate final - they beat New Zealand to win the Championship in Sri Lanka
in 2006.

"We just need one more excellent performance," says Paras Khadka, who's playing his third World Cup and is among the leading wicket-takers of the tournament.

West Indies will fly out of Malaysia early morning on March 3, a day after the grand final, and Adrian Barath wasn't looking forward to the long journey back to the Caribbean. They fly from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai to London to Barbados, and then to Trinidad. He's eager
to get back to playing in the Carib Cup though after missing out on the
mega-bucks that Trinidad won in the Stanford 20/20.