Al Amerat: Richie Berrington slammed a stroke-filled 70 whereas Josh Davey snapped four wickets as Scotland inched closer to the Substantial 12s with a overjoyed 17-chase buy over Papua Unusual Guinea in their Team B match of the ICC T20 World Cup right here on Tuesday.
Scotland grabbed the pinnacle order in Team B with two wins having afraid Bangladesh in their opening sport.
Berrington placed on 92 runs off 65 balls with Matthew Unfriendly (45) earlier than including one other 33 with Calum MacLeod (10) as Scotland posted a interesting 165 for 9 after opting to bat.
Kyle Coetzer’s males then produced an very perfect bowling effort to skittle out PNG for 148 in 19.3 overs with Davey (4/18) emerging because the standout bowler.
PNG thus made an early exit to their maiden campaign at the T20 World Cup following the second successive loss. They had misplaced to Oman by 10 wickets in their tournament opener.
Chasing 166 to buy, PNG wanted their batters to fireplace but they couldn’t gather any momentum and were quickly reduced to 35 for 5 in 6 overs.
Norman Vanua (47) and Kiplin Doriga (18) then fought serve including 53 off 29 balls to do away with hopes but Watt broke the partnership brushing aside the latter in the 17th over.
Davey then returned to gather Vanua to race PNG’s slim hopes of a maiden victory in its first global appearance.
Earlier, Berrington slammed three sixes along with six hits to the fence all over his 49-ball pause to plight the foundation for a immense gather but PNG place brakes in the remaining three overs, conceding only 19 runs and taking six wickets in the technique.
Kabua Morea (4/31) and Chad Soper (3/24) were the most a success bowlers for PNG.
Goerge Munsey smashed three fours to give Scotland a flying originate but Morea castled skipper Coetzer at the assorted conclude in the third over to deal the first blow.
Munsey too perished quickly whereas attempting to muscle a initiating from Soper as Scotland slipped to 26 for 2 in 3.4 overs.
Unfriendly and Berrington then steadied the innings as Scotland reached 67 for 2 in 10 overs.
Berrington became as soon as the most fundamental aggressor as he pulled one from Soper for a boundary earlier than dancing down the discover and depositing Lega Siaka over prolonged-on for a maximum.
He also handled Charles Amini with disdain, pulling him by means of the square leg discipline for one other four.
Unfriendly then slogswept Amini over deep mid-wicket to advise up their 50-chase associate.
Berrington also matched his associate with one other six over prolonged-off.
Nosaina Pokana became as soon as then in the line of fire as Berrington and Unfriendly milked him for 18 runs with the lend a hand of two fours and a six as Scotland crossed the 100-mark in 13 overs.
Simon Atai broke the partnership when he had Unfriendly caught at deep mid-wicket in the 15th over.
Nonetheless, it made no distinction as MacLeod joined fingers with Berrington and got 15 runs off Morea.
Berrington then slammed Soper over prolonged-on for one other maximum to gather 11 runs off the over.
PNG, nonetheless, made amends in the remaining three overs with Pokana bowling a tight over and Soper placing twice in three balls, taking away Macleod and Berrington.
Within the remaining over, Michael Leask hit a six but PNG picked up four wickets to retain things in test.
