Opening batsman Chris Gayle smashed 119 off 151 balls to help West Indies amass a respectable total of 246 for seven in the Group B match before the Caribbean bowlers demolished the Kenyans for a miserable 104 inside 36 overs.

``We didn't bat too well and if you don't bat too well this is what happens,'' Kenya captain Steve Tikolo told a news conference. ``But we have to take it in our stride and we're looking towards the Super Six where, hopefully, we'll play better.

``Just being in the Super Six, the boys are looking forward to it so the confidence is up.''

West Indies captain Carl Hooper remained philosophical about his team's elimination.

``There's nothing we can do about it,'' he said. ``All we could do was try and finish the tournament on a high and we did that today.

``No disrespect to the Kenyans or the Zimbabweans but obviously they are not two of the strongest teams in their groups, but that's basically just a reflection of the rules we play by.''

Vasbert Drakes captured career-best figures of five for 33 including three wickets in eight balls, and Jermaine Lawson took two wickets on his first appearance of the tournament, at times bowling in excess of 150 km/h.

The Kenyan batting was hopelessly equipped to deal with the ferocity of the West Indian quicks, with only Peter Ongondo, who top-scored with 24 late in the innings, showing any real resistance.

The match could not have been more one-sided but the result still had no effect on the competition with West Indies, world champions in 1975 and 1979, missing out on the second round by just two points, while Kenya went through with 10 carry-over points, second only to defending champions Australia who have 12.

FREE POINTS
West Indies could easily rue their misfortune having lost two certain points when their match against Bangladesh was washed out by rain, while Kenya collected four free points when New Zealand refused to travel to Nairobi because of security concerns. Hooper's side beat South Africa, in the tournament's opening match, and Canada, but lost to New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

Despite having little to play for except pride, West Indies still were keen to show why they were hard done by with a comprehensive display.

Gayle cracked his first hundred of the tournament and Shivnarine Chanderpaul also helped himself to a half-century as Kenya's bowlers struggled to make any real impression on a flat and at times lifeless pitch, relying on West Indian errors to make breakthroughs.

Gayle and Chanderpaul piled on 122 for the first wicket with Chanderpaul reaching his fifty off 46 balls and Gayle from 88 deliveries, neither batsmen looking seriously threatened by a pedestrian Kenya attack.

Chanderpaul was the more aggressive, striking seven boundaries and two sixes, off successive balls from Maurice Odumbe, before his impatience got the better of him on 66 and he top-edged an attempted sweep off Collins Obuya to Joseph Angara.

POWERFUL PERFORMANCE
Brian Lara, Marlon Samuels, Ricardo Powell and Hooper also threw their wickets away cheaply, but Gayle kept the runs flowing with a powerful performance that came too late to save his team from an early exit.

The Jamaican, who had managed just one half-century in his previous five World Cup games, reached his fifth one-day international hundred off 143 balls then went on the rampage, smashing two sixes, one which landed outside the De Beers Diamond Oval, and two more boundaries before he was caught at deep backward point off Angara.

Kenya lost their first wicket in the fourth over when Drakes had Kennedy Otieno caught at fine leg for three, then Gayle took a juggling catch at second slip to remove Ravindu Shah and give Mervyn Dillon his only wicket.

Drakes, 33, dismissed Brijal Patel and Hitesh Modi with successive deliveries. He missed a hat-trick but added the scalp of Tikolo in his next over to complete his second five-wicket haul in one-day internationals.

The Kenyan tail showed some signs of defiance when the result was already academic, taking the total past 100 to at least avoid the embarrassment of failing to reach triple figures.

WEST INDIES
C.Gayle c D.Obuya b Angara 119

S.Chanderpaul c Angara b C.Obuya 66

B.Lara c D.Obuya b Tikolo 10

M.Samuels c Patel b Odumbe 14

R.Powell c Otieno b Odumbe 8

C.Hooper st Otieno b Angara 6

W.Hinds b Suji 10

R.Jacobs not out 9

V.Drakes not out 1

Extras: (w-3) 3

Total: (for seven wickets, 50 overs) 246

Fall of wickets: 1-122, 2-158, 3-182, 4-196, 5-222, 6-224, 7-245.

Bowling: Suji 10-1-38-1, Angara 7-0-53-2, Ongondo 5-0-17-0, Odumbe 10-0-62-2, C.Obuya 10-0-48-1, Tikolo 8-0-28-1.

KENYA
K.Otieno c Dillon b Drakes 3

R.Shah c Gayle b Dillon 12

B.Patel c Lara b Drakes 11

S.Tikolo lbw b Drakes 12

H.Modi c Jacobs b Drakes 0

M.Odumbe hit wkt b Lawson 0

D.Obuya c Powell b Drakes 4

C.Obuya c Powell b Lawson 13

P.Ongondo b Powell 24

M.Suji c Chanderpaul b Hinds 13

J.Angara not out 0

Extras: (lb-3, w-8, nb-1) 12

Total: (all out, 35.5 overs) 104

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-26, 3-34, 4-34, 5-43, 6-43, 7-54, 8-62, 9-102.