Kingston, March 24 (IANS) Shivnarine Chanderpaul smashed a fine century as West Indies brushed aside minnows Ireland by eight wickets in a Group D rain-interrupted World Cup match here Friday to continue their march.

Both teams have progressed to the second round, but the West Indies are carrying forward two crucial points to Super Eight. Teams are carrying the points earned against the co-qualifiers from their particular groups as per the tournament rules.

First the bowlers did a good job to restrict Ireland to 183 for eight wickers in 48 over allowed by rains, and then Chanderpaul scored 102 off 113 balls (10x4s, 3x6s) Ramnaresh Sarwan 36 to steer the hosts home for the loss of just two wickets.

The West Indies target was readjusted to 190 runs according to the Duckworth-Leiws Method for interrupted matches, and they scored just as many at Sabina Park.

The giant-killing Irish team, which stunned Pakistan and sent them crashing out of the World Cup, did not put up the same kind of performance. They will, however, be more than content to have made it to the second round to take on the likes of defending champions Australia.

Australia had beaten India in the final of the 2003 World Cup final in Johannesburg.

India, winners in 1983, crashed out of this tournament losing to 1996 champions Sri Lanka in Port of Spain before this match ended.

SCOREBOARD

Match No. 21, West Indies vs Ireland, Group D, World Cup, Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica

Ireland:
Jeremy Bray c sub b Taylor 41
William Porterfield c Gayle b Powell 0
Eion Morgan c Ramdin b Powell 18
Niall O'Brien c Ramdin b Bradshaw 11
Andre Botha c Ramdin b Gayle 28
Kevin O'Brien c Sarwan b Gayle 17
Andrew White b Bravo 18
Kyle McCallan not out 20
John Mooney c Ramdin b Bravo 0
Dave Langford-Smith not out 8
Extras: (b 4, lb 10, w 6, nb 2) 22
Total: (for 8 wickets in 48 overs) 183

Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Porterfield, 1.2 overs), 2-61 (Morgan, 15.3), 3-76 (N. O'Brien, 20.2), 4-82 (Bray, 21.6), 5-129 (K. O'Brien, 35.4), 6-139 (Botha, 39.2), 7-163 (White, 45.5), 8-163 (Mooney, 45.6)

Bowling:
Jerome Taylor 8 0 37 1 (3w)
Daren Powell 9 2 24 2 (1w)
Ian Bradshaw 9 0 27 1
Dwayne Bravo 7 1 35 2 (2nb, 1w)
Chris H ayle 10 0 23 2 (1w)
Marlon Samuels 5 0 23 0

West Indies:
Chris Gayle c White b Langford-Smith 18
Shivnarine Chanderpaul not out 102
Ramnaresh Sarwan c K.J. O'Brien b McCallan 36
Marlon Samuels not out 27
Extras: (lb 1, w 6) 7
Total: (for two wickets in 38.1 overs) 190

Fall of wickets: 1-24 (Gayle, 4.3 overs), 2-143 (Sarwan, 27.4)

Bowling:
Dave Langford-Smith 9 1 33 1 (3w)
Boyd Rankin 5 0 38 0 7.60 (2w)
Andre Botha 6 0 35 0
John Mooney 4 1 22 0
Kyle McCallan 10 0 35 1 (1w)
Kevin O'Brien 3 0 13 0
Andrew White 1.1 0 13 0

Result: West Indies won by 8 wickets (Duckworth-Lewis method)
Umpires: Billy Bowden (New Zealand) and Ian Gould (England)
Man of the Match: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies)
TV umpire: Brian Jerling (South Africa)
Reserve umpire: Simon Taufel (Australia)
Match referee: Roshan Mahanama (Sri Lanka)