Player of the Match
Player of the Match

4.05pm: That's yer lot from Antigua, where Scotland have once again stuck a flag in the ground. The Associates are coming, and coming specifically for England, the T20WC defending champions. Andrew Miller's report will tell the tale, and there'll be plenty more to come over the next week - England play on Thursday and Saturday, before Scotland's game with Australia caps off Group B on Sunday. Oh, and if cross-border rivalry is your thing, there was a tasty finish to the other game taking place today. Thanks for your comments, we'll be back for more tomorrow. Bye!

3.55pm: Time for the captains to speak, starting with Aqib Ilyas: "We started well in the powerplay, 175 could have been a good score, but we had too many dot balls on a flat track. In the batting we have to improve. 150 was par but we dropped too many chances. Catches, if you take them, puts pressure on the other team. This is cricket, sometimes you are at the top, sometimes you are down. [What next?] Stay positive, everyone will be upset, next game we never know. We will hope to compete against England."

Scotland's Richie Berrington: "Really pleased, important to get the win in a tough game. [Oman fast start] Important on this wicket to work out how to bowl, thought we brought it back well towards the back end. We didn't have a score in mind. It was more about working out the lengths to bowl. One side was going to be hard to defend, but thought we did that really well. Really happy with the score we had to chase. It was important to get a good start, the way the guys played at the top was excellent. Partnership between Munsey and McMullen was brilliant, great to see Brandon get a score today. [NRR] Wanted to get into a position to win the game, then when we got there we thought we'd target the short side. We'll enjoy this moment."

3.50pm: An utterly ruthless display from Scotland, breezing to their target with almost seven overs to spare - they will go top of Group B once again, and have lit a fire under England's rickety-looking T20 title defence. Already Scotland have opened up a NRR gap of almost 4 on England, who will need to truly pulverise Oman and Namibia and then hope that Australia can do them a favour in the final game... which you can imagine they might not be overly keen to do!

Brandon McMullen is Player of the Match for his unbeaten 61 off 31: "Very chuffed to get the win for the team. Short boundary with the breeze, we decided it was a key element of the game and that paid off for us. [NRR in mind?] Priority was to win and get the points but at drinks we said we should get this done. We are confident going into the Australia game, always trying to raise the bar. That's the plan going forward."

13.1
4
Bilal Khan to McMullen, FOUR, short ball, swung away through square leg, Scotland smash their chase to win by seven wickets! And that will do wonders for their net run rate, too

Bilal returns but the jig is up for Oman. And quite possibly England, too

END OF OVER:
13 | 20 Runs | SCOT: 149/3 (2 runs required from 42 balls, RR: 11.46, RRR: 0.28)

  • Matthew Cross15 (8b)
  • Brandon McMullen57 (30b)
  • Ayaan Khan1-0-20-0
  • Aqib Ilyas3-0-41-1

"Scotland with one eye on the NRR already?" Indeed, Dave, and a Begbie-like glint in their eye!

12.6
0
Ayaan Khan to Cross, no run, quicker and flatter, beats the edge as Cross aims a cut

All of a sudden, Scotland just need two to win

12.5
6
Ayaan Khan to Cross, SIX, repeats the dose! Using the wind, it's not a long hit to that side, plops over the boundary boards at deep backward square leg again
12.4
6
Ayaan Khan to Cross, SIX, targets the leg side, slogged all the way! Cross plants the front foot and heaves heartily across the line
12.3
1
Ayaan Khan to McMullen, 1 run, drops back and slaps one past the diving Ayaan to long-off

Scotland 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st21HG MunseyMA Jones
2nd65HG MunseyB McMullen
3rd24RD BerringtonB McMullen
4th43MH CrossB McMullen

ICC Men's T20 World Cup

Super Eights, Group 1
TeamMWLPTNRR
IND33062.017
AFG3214-0.305
AUS3122-0.331
BAN3030-1.709
Super Eights, Group 2
TeamMWLPTNRR
SA33060.599
ENG32141.992
WI31220.963
USA3030-3.906
Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
IND43071.137
USA42150.127
PAK42240.294
CAN4123-0.493
IRE4031-1.293
Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
AUS44082.791
ENG42153.611
SCOT42151.255
NAM4132-2.585
OMA4040-3.062
Group C
TeamMWLPTNRR
WI44083.257
AFG43161.835
NZ42240.415
UGA4132-4.51
PNG4040-1.268
Group D
TeamMWLPTNRR
SA44080.47
BAN43160.616
SL41230.863
NED4132-1.358
NEP4031-0.542