Player of the Match
Player of the Match

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Best performances - Batsmen

S Bau
S Bau
50(43) 6x4 - 1x6
Control %75%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 9 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
5 8 0 4 11 2 13 7
RL Chase
RL Chase
42(27) 4x4 - 2x6
Control %81%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 11 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
1 4 4 0 6 11 8 8

Best performances - Bowlers

AD Russell
AD Russell
O3
M0
R19
W2
Eco6.33
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
A Vala
A Vala
O4
M1
R28
W2
Eco7.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Scorer: K Vairavan | Commentator: Vithushan Ehantharajah

2.20pm: Thanks for your eyeballs for game two of this T20 World Cup. Good fun, wasn't it? That's all from us here. Join us in a few hours for Namibia vs Oman in Bridgetown!

2.15pm: A word from both captains, starting with West Indies' Rovman Powell: " Credit has to be given to PNG. I think there plans were simple and they played good cricket. I think (PNG's score of 136 for 8) it's a little, 10 or 15, too much. And as a bowling group that's something we need to work on. They played smartly.

On Roston Chase' performance: "That was very good. Started from a bowling effort, I think he bowled pretty well. And coming at the end, when we were under pressure coming there with composure, and to come out with a winning innings was great for us. I think we can be better in all three departments."

PNG's Assad Vala is proud of his team's efforts but has a few regrets: "It was a competitive score but we believe we missed a trick towards the end. Another 10 to 15 runs would have been nice. We're really happy with the way we fought. We got wickets in key moments, but we couldn't nail it at the end. I'm really pleased with the effort from the boys

"It's an opporunity and a challenge we look forward to. We try and play our best cricket against the best players. It was an opportunity to go out there and play the way we wanted to play."

2.08pm: Roston Chase is player of the match for his unbeaten 42 from 27 deliveries: "I'm very pleased. To start the tournament with a win is always good. I had to take it home for the team, and I did it.

"I knew from our first innings bowling, it was always hard for batsmen coming in to start. I gave myself time, backed myself. I've been putting in a lot of hard work so I just backed my preparation."

On Papua New Guinea's efforts: "They're not an A-List team but we don't want to take any team lightly in the World Cup. We came out with the mentality that we were playing Australia or India. We started slowly but we had a chat at the halway stage and the guys just wanted to rally and put the best foot forward. "

1:59pm: dave davud: "Despite the win, West Indies should be embarrassed by that performance. It shocks me that the game was even a contest"

ShahSafeer: "First big team has survived a big heartbreak. This should just be the beginning of that, this format allows smaller team to topple big boys. That's exactly why we needed more teams for the T20I WC!"

Vettelfan17: "If is a big old word but if PNG had ran as well as they did in the last 5 overs throughout the innings, there were 10-15 runs out there. What could have been"

END OF OVER:
19 | 13 Runs | WI: 137/5 | RR: 7.21

  • Andre Russell15 (9b)
  • Roston Chase42 (27b)
  • Kabua Morea3-0-30-0
  • Assad Vala4-1-28-2
18.6
1
Morea to Russell, 1 run, That's all she wrote! Russell takes West Indies over the line as he digs out a yorker towards long on. West Indies start their 2024 T20 World Cup campaign with victory by five wickets! But my days did they have to work for it! Outstanding fight from PNG, who, truth be told, were ahead of the game on a couple of occasions during this chase but just couldn't stay the course. Plenty of "if only" moments but they've shown the rest of Group C that they're not just here for the ride...
18.5
1
Morea to Chase, 1 run, Wide yorker, ramped out to third to tie the scores...
18.4
4
Morea to Chase, FOUR, One bouncer four over cover! Start the car. Morea serves up a full toss outside off stump and Chase gets it out of the middle with a lovely lofted cover drive
18.3
4
Morea to Chase, FOUR, Flicked over the shoulder for four! Chase steps across and intercepts a full ball on the sweep, lapping it fine on the leg side
18.2
1
Morea to Russell, 1 run, Russell steps across to expose his stumps, Morea goes for the toes - on about off stump - and is picked away for a single through midwicket

West Indies 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st8J CharlesBA King
2nd53N PooranBA King
3rd2RL ChaseBA King
4th22RL ChaseR Powell
5th12RL ChaseSE Rutherford
6th40AD RussellRL Chase

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