And, with Stephan Shemilt's match report already available for you to read on the BBC Sport website, it's time for us to wave goodbye to the group stage as Ireland become the last of the six teams who have been eliminated at this point.

I'm sure many - if not all - fans will hope this is not their final World Cup match. It may be the Ides of March, external today, but if we never see Ireland (and Afghanistan) on a World Cup stage again, it would truly be the most unkindest cut of all.

Enjoy the rest of Mothering Sunday - and make sure you "bank" a couple of good nights of sleep as we'll be expecting you to join us bright and early on Wednesday morning at 03:00 GMT for the first quarter-final. Bye for now.

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A reminder of that quarter-final line-up. You may want to check the batteries in your alarm clock.

• Wed 18 March: South Africa v Sri Lanka, Sydney (03:30 GMT)

• Thu 19 March: India v Bangladesh, Melbourne (03:30 GMT)

• Fri 20 March: Australia v Pakistan, Adelaide (03:30 GMT)

• Sat 21 March: New Zealand v West Indies, Wellington (01;00 GMT)

A little look at how Pool B finished, with Ireland missing out on net run-rate:

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"It will probably hit home to the England players that they get home and watch the quarter-finals that they still should be in this tournament. They should be there at the MCG playing India [instead of Bangladesh]."

Will: Listening to the debate about the next CWC. ICC, please don't cut the next tournament to just 10 teams. You can't have a World Cup without the founders of the game! How do you expect England to get into the top 10 ODI teams in the world?

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Why can't we have more than one game a day at a World Cup? Do they all have to be televised?"

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Ireland captain William Porterfield on Test Match Special: "It is nice to get some runs but never nice to be on the losing side. We are disappointed not to have got more runs but they bowled well.

"It is disappointing to go out on net run rate but the way we started is good and we continued well with the batters stepping up and getting runs. A lot of credit goes to the bowlers as well for toiling away.

"We have shown - as have all the qualifiers - that we deserve to be here. We have to give credit to ourselves on the way we played and we have to keep improving."

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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Pakistan are historically not great starters at world Cups but they do get better and better. It is just if this crop of players have the ability to go on and win it?"

lyas Najib: All the big teams have made the quarter finals, who knows England may have to qualify for the next World Cup. People can call the last few overs farcical, but that hundred for Sarfraz will give the entire team and national a huge lift.

Haris Hameed: Victory is sweet. Revenge is sweeter.

So, to compare the three teams which travelled from these isles and will now be on their way home:

• Ireland - won 3, lost 3, net run rate -0.93, points 6

• England - won 2, lost 4, NRR -0.75, points 4

• Scotland - lost 6, NRR -2.22, points 0

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Ireland are always competitive. You rarely watch an Ireland team play a top team and it is over at halfway. Of all the Associate nations over the last two World Cups, Ireland are the ones who stand out."

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We'll wait to bring you the captains - Sarfraz only briefly spoke in Urdu while collecting his man-of-the-match award.

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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"There have now been seven hundreds by wicketkeepers in this World Cup (Kumar Sangakkara 4, Brendan Taylor 2, Sarfraz Ahmed 1). There were a total of seven 100s by keepers in the previous 10 World Cups.

"Sarfraz is the first World Cup 100 by a keeper for Pakistan. The previous best by a Pakistan keeper was 63 by Moin Khan v South Africa at Nottingham in 1999."

Zavair Baakza: Take a bow Ireland. It was a pleasure watching you. See you in England 2019.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport in Adelaide

"The Ireland players have walked all the way across the outfield to say thank you to their fans. Incredibly classy. There's a couple of shirts being thrown into the crowd, the advertising boards being hurdled to share some hugs and handshakes. They can be proud of what they have achieved."

A strange end to a match where the result was largely inevitable after Pakistan got off to a decent start. Sarfraz Ahmed is named as man of the match.

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Ireland seamer Alex Cusack on Test Match Special: "It is very disappointing but we gave it all we had and just fell a bit short with the bat. Maybe 30 or 40 more runs might have made it interesting. We just couldn't make those early breakthroughs with the ball. We have more experience and hopefully we can continue to do well in the future. We've done as good as we can do. We just need to go on from here now."

So, here's that quarter-final line-up:

• Wed 18 March: South Africa v Sri Lanka, Sydney

• Thu 19 March: India v Bangladesh, Melbourne

• Fri 20 March: Australia v Pakistan, Adelaide

• Sat 21 March: New Zealand v West Indies, Wellington

Ian: Farcical last few overs. Questions will be asked about how long the batsmen managed to stretch it out. Misbah looked livid.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"A good performance form Pakistan apart from the last 20 minutes. They looked good with the ball in particular, but they also batted nicely. Sarfraz got up to the 90s beautifully. They will give Australia a game. They a funny side,. On their day they can give anyone a game."

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