Durham - Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne is refusing to give up on his team's World Cup hopes ahead of Monday's must-win clash against the West Indies.



They will need help from other results, but Karunaratne is confident his team's batsmen are ready to power them to a strong finish in their last two group games.

"We can't control the other games, you know. Sometimes they were playing really well, sometimes they couldn't," Karunaratne told reporters on Sunday.





"I think the batting is the main collapse, you know. We couldn't get a hundred," Karunaratne said.

"We played like six, five matches, so we couldn't get a hundred, only a couple of 50s in our team, so that is the only major thing.



"If some fast bowler gets injured, there is no fast bowler, so you want to take a fast bowler into the squad in case if someone get injured," he added.

"We have enough batsmen. They have capabilities to score runs, but the only thing is they were scoring but as a unit we couldn't perform really well in these matches."