T20 World Cup 2024 : Papua New Guinea vs West Indies Match Preview, ICC T20 World Cup 2024

2nd T20I • Providence Stadium • Guyana

Papua New Guinea

136/8 (20)

West Indies

137/5 (19)

WI won by 5 wickets

Info

Fantasy

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Scorecard

Stats

Playing XI

Table

Date & Time

02 Jun, 08:00 PM IST

Venue

Providence Stadium, Guyana

TV/Streaming

Disney+ Hotstar, Star Sports

Match

2nd T20I,

Umpires

Adrian Holdstock (South Africa), Rashid Riaz (Pakistan), Ahsan Raza (Pakistan, TV)

Referee

Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe)

Toss

West Indies elected to bowl

Pitch Report

PitchGreen Pitch

Pace BowlingSwing Favourable

Batting ConditionAverage

Spin BowlingSlow Spin

1st Innings

128Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

126.27Avg SR

2nd Innings

103Avg Runs

4Avg Wkts

125.58Avg SR

Playing XILineups Out

Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

0- 0

PNG

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

West Indies

Papua New Guinea

Playing XILineups Out

Fantasy Top Picks

Expert Team 1

B King

R Charles

Expert Team 2

A Russell

B King

Venue Details

Providence Stadium, Guyana

PitchGreen Pitch

Pace BowlingSwing Favourable

Batting ConditionAverage

Spin BowlingSlow Spin

1st Innings

128Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

126.27Avg SR

2nd Innings

103Avg Runs

4Avg Wkts

125.58Avg SR

Toss winners opt to

54%Bat First Bowl First46%

Team Batting First

30%Wins Losses70%

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WI 150/4 (20)

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IRE 68/10 (16.4)

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Team Form (Last 5 Matches, Most recent first)

Team Form (Last 5 Matches)

West Indies

Papua New Guinea

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

0- 0

PNG

Team Comparison (Last 10 Matches)

Matches Played

Matches Won

189

Average Score

129

222/6

Highest Score

206/3

133/6

Lowest Score

82/6

Player of the Match Roston Chase

42(27)

0/26

Lucky Winner shobhitdehradun

PNG

Info

Papua New Guinea

136/8 (20)

Batters

Tony Ura

40.00

c N Pooran b R Shepherd

Assad Vala

(C)

95.45

c RL Chase b A Joseph

Lega Siaka

50.00

b AJ Hosein

Sese Bau

116.28

b A Joseph

Hiri Hiri

33.33

c R Powell b G Moti

Charles Amini

85.71

c N Pooran b A Russell

Kiplin Doriga

150.00

Not out

Chad Soper

111.11

b A Russell

Alei Nao

0.00

runout (A Joseph)

Kabua Morea

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 1, W: 7)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 6.8)

136/8

Did not Bat

John Kariko

Bowlers

EXT

3.00

7.67

6.33

6.50

8.50

8.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Tony Ura

c N Pooran b R Shepherd

1-5

1.5

Lega Siaka

b AJ Hosein

2-7

2.1

Assad Vala

c RL Chase b A Joseph

3-34

5.6

Hiri Hiri

c R Powell b G Moti

4-50

8.5

Charles Amini

c N Pooran b A Russell

5-94

14.6

Sese Bau

b A Joseph

6-98

16.3

Chad Soper

b A Russell

7-122

18.6

Alei Nao

runout (A Joseph)

8-130

19.3

West Indies

137/5 (19)

Batters

Brandon King

117.24

c L Siaka b A Vala

Johnson Charles

0.00

lbw b A Nao

Nicholas Pooran

100.00

c T Ura b J Kariko

Roston Chase

155.56

Not out

Rovman Powell

(C)

107.14

c K Doriga b C Soper

Sherfane Rutherford

28.57

c K Doriga b A Vala

Andre Russell *

166.67

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 0, W: 0)

TOTAL

(19 Ov, RR: 7.21)

137/5

Did not Bat

Romario Shepherd, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Gudakesh Motie

Bowlers

EXT

10.00

4.50

6.33

18.00

4.25

7.00

7.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Johnson Charles

lbw b A Nao

1-8

1.1

Nicholas Pooran

c T Ura b J Kariko

2-61

8.1

Brandon King

c L Siaka b A Vala

3-63

9.5

Rovman Powell

c K Doriga b C Soper

4-85

13.6

Sherfane Rutherford

c K Doriga b A Vala

5-97

15.6

Match Info

Date & Time

02 Jun, 08:00 PM IST

Venue

Providence Stadium, Guyana

TV/Streaming

Disney+ Hotstar, Star Sports

Match

2nd T20I,

Umpires

Adrian Holdstock (South Africa), Rashid Riaz (Pakistan), Ahsan Raza (Pakistan, TV)

Referee

Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe)

Toss

West Indies elected to bowl

1 0 1 1 0 W

Over 16

Runs: 3

0 1 0 0 2 6

Over 17

Runs: 9

4 1 2 1 6 4

Over 18

Runs: 18

2 1 4 4 1 1

Over 19

Runs: 13

All Overs

Player of the Match Roston Chase

42(27)

0/26

Lucky Winner shobhitdehradun

Commentary

We now come to the end of our coverage of this contest. We'll be back with more of the same later tomorrow - Namibia will take on Oman in technically the second game of the day at Barbados, and we'll then have a blockbuster clash between Sri Lanka and South Africa at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York. Join us right here on Sportskeeda for our coverage of them, and a lot more! This is Rajarshi Das, signing off on behalf of Pradeep Somasekhar. Good night - see you tomorrow!

This sure might be a tournament for the associate nations. Papua New Guinea almost pulled off the unthinkable - maybe a few more on the board would have made things a lot more interesting. They have Uganda - another emerging force from Africa coming up next - the way they went about today, PNG sure might be favourites for that one! The West Indies still have Afghanistan and New Zealand to play in the group stage - they won't be too pleased with how they got things done today. They play Uganda next as well, and the Men in Maroon will want to be a lot more clinical in all departments.

Rovman Powell (West Indies captain): Credit has to be given to PNG, their plans were simple, and they play good cricket. It's important to get the two points, and to start well, and that's what we did. It was 10 or 15 too much (PNG's total), that's something we're looking to tighten up. When PNG came under pressure, their batters in the middle overs showed intent. Credit has to be given to them - they played smartly. For the past year since I've turned captain, 70-80 percent of the team are playing together. Something we've enjoyed doing, hopefully we can show that in the World Cup. Starting from the bowling effort, he (Chase) bowled really well, and then coming in the end, to hold his composure and come out with that innings is very pleasing for us. We can be better in all three departments, we've seen the team play very good cricket. We weren't quite up to the straps today, 70 percent there, just to go down and see what we did well today. Hopefully we can correct that on the second game.

Assad Vala (Papua New Guinea captain): It was a competitive score, we thought another 10-15 runs would've done good for us, but we lost too many wickets towards the end and lost our way. We fought hard, we got key wickets but couldn't get towards the end, but overall happy with the effort from the boys. It's an opportunity and look forward to playing against big players, really good effort and take this energy in the next game against Uganda. Simmons has been really helpful with the conditions, really calm and the way he speaks to the boys.

Roston Chase is the Player of the Match! Here's what he has to say: Very pleased, obviously it's good to start with a win in the tournament, happy to take the team home. It was always hard for the batters coming in, I have myself some time and backed my skills. Watched PNG batters as they took the time and then they played their shots. Putting in a lot of hard work, we had a camp in Antigua and has helped. We don't want to take any team lightly, they are here for a reason. We started off a bit slow, we had a chance at the half-way stage and won the game.

Match summary:

West Indies win by 5 wickets with 6 balls to spare

Roston Chase 42*(27) | Andre Russell 2/19 (4)
Sese Bau 50 (43) | Assad Vala 2/28 (4)

They sure did put up a really commendable fight - did Papua New Guinea, but the hosts had way too much batting firepower to seal this contest. The Papua New Guinea spinners made the most of the slow deck in those middle overs - it seemed like boundary-hitting was nearly impossible at one point with the likes of John Kariko, Assad Vala and Charles Amini keeping a check on the runs, but once Andre Russell was in, the tide turned towards the hosts for good.

The West Indies lost Johnson Charles early on, but Brandon King pierced the gaps in the in-field quite often in the powerplay, and helped the West Indies get going. Nicholas Pooran looked to attack, wasn't quite timing it well enough. That was until he came across Sese Bau's off-breaks - Pooran helped the West Indies move past fifty in a trice - taking 17 out of the 18 in the final over of the powerplay.

It was after the powerplay that the screws tightened on the West Indies - John Kariko contained Pooran from his end - Pooran tried to go after him and picked out long on. Brandon King followed soon after, holing out off Assad Vala trying to hit into the wind towards mid wicket. The runs began drying up as Vala, Kariko, Amini and Chad Soper kept a tight line and length, and the required rate inched towards nine.

A couple of sharp catches from Kiplin Doriga further put Papua New Guinea in front. But the West Indies still had Andre Russell to come, and they still had Roston Chase out there. The six from Russell off the last ball of the 17th eased the pressure off the hosts. Chase then hit 14 off the 18 next over, bringing the equation close to a run-a-ball with two overs to go, and the West Indies were home and dry with one ball to go to the final over. Captains' quotes coming up in a bit...

Well, the hosts sure had a scare or two in those middle overs, but trust that man with the blonde spike across his head to take control of proceedings. Andre Russell kicked the doors open for the West Indies, and they get past the line.... just about!

overs

137 /5 score

runs

Andre Russell *

15 (9)

Roston Chase

42 (27)

Kabua Morea

0 /30

18.6 Kabua Morea to Andre Russell, WEST INDIES HOLD ON TO THEIR NERVE! What a game this turned out to be. PNG almost made a match out of this, credit to them to take this game deep but West Indies prevail in time. Full on the leg-stump. Russell whacked it to long-on for one and seals the game.

18.5 Kabua Morea to Roston Chase, yorker length in the channel. Chase opens the face of the blade, squeezes it to short third-man for one. Scores are level!

18.4 Kabua Morea to Roston Chase, FOUR MORE! Sensational shot and goes one bounce into the ropes. Just two needed now. Low full toss outside the off-stump. Chase handsomely lofted it to deep extra-cover, back to back boundaries.

18.3 Kabua Morea to Roston Chase, FOUR! Wheels coming off now for PNG. Back of a length on the off-stump, Chase walks across and hoicks it to deep backward square-leg for another boundary.

18.2 Kabua Morea to Andre Russell, full outside the off-stump, Russell walks right across off-stump and whips it to deep mid-wicket for just one.

18.1 Kabua Morea to Andre Russell, full and wide of off-stump. Russell had to stretch, opens the face of the blade and steers it to deep backward point for an easy couple of runs.

Kabua Morea (2-0-17-0) is back into the attack

Ah well - they've had to take it deep, but now, it seems like the hosts will get this done with time to spare. Papua New Guinea sure did put up a great fight - if only they'd a few more on the board!

overs

124 /5 score

runs

Roston Chase *

33 (24)

Andre Russell

11 (6)

Assad Vala

2 /28

17.6 Assad Vala to Roston Chase, FOUR! Drags it a bit too short. Chase latches on to it, rocks back and smashes it down to long-on, fielder gets around but can't stop it, another boundary.

17.5 Assad Vala to Roston Chase, SIX MORE! That is another mighty hit, this time it's Roston Chase. Length delivery outside the off-stump, sits on one knee and pumped it way over long-off for a maximum.

17.4 Assad Vala to Andre Russell, touch fuller in the channel. Russell stroked it nicely down to long-off for one more.