Scotland (SCO) will be playing against Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the 5th match of the ICC T20 World Cup on Tuesday. The encounter will take place at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground. The match will be broadcasted live on Star Sports Network.
Currently, Scotland is placed at the fourteenth position in the score table. In their last match, they played against Bangladesh and won by 6 runs. Playing first, Scotland was restricted to 140 runs, where Bangladesh managed to score 134 runs only. The team will be lead by Kyle Coetzer.
On the contrary, Papua New Guinea has been placed in the fifteenth position in the points table. Papua New Guinea lost their last game against Oman. On batting first, they scored 129 runs which were easily chased by Oman in the 14th over without losing any wicket.
The two teams have played four matches against each other in this format. Scotland managed to win all four matches against Papua New Guinea. In their last match against each other, Scotland defeated Papua New Guinea by 8 wickets.
Scotland v/s Papua New Guinea, Match 5, Group B
Venue: Al Amerat Cricket Ground, Oman
Match Date & Time: October 19 at 3:30 PM (IST) and at 2:00 PM (Local Time)
Live Streaming: Star Sports Network
Pitch Report
Al Amerat Cricket Ground provides a neutral wicket to both the departments and an ample amount of help can be gathered from the surface. Spinners will come in handy in the middle overs. Scoring above 150 is a defendable score on this surface.
Probable Playing XIs for SCO v/s PNG:
Scotland:
George Munsey, Kyle Coetzer (c), Matthew Cross (wk), Richie Berrington, Calum Macleod, Michael Leask, Chris Greaves, Mark Watt, Josh Davey, Safyaan Sharif, Brad Wheal
Papua New Guinea:
Tony Ura, Lega Siaka, Assad Vala (c), Charles Amini, Sese Bau, Norman Vanua, Simon Atai, Kiplin Doriga (wk), Damien Ravu, Kabua Morea, Nosaina Pokana
SCO v/s PNG Top Picks for SCO v/s PNG Dream11 Match:
Top Picks – Batsmen
George Munsey: A left-handed opening batsman from Scotland. He played remarkably in his last match against Bangladesh and scored a valuable 29 runs from 23 balls. The team is looking forward to his performance today.
Tony Ura: A right-handed opening batsman from Papua New Guinea. It was unfortunate for him to score no runs in the last match against Oman. The team is expecting him to score a good amount of runs for the team.
Top Picks – All-rounders
Richie Berrington: A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler from Scotland. He was unable to perform well in the last match against Bangladesh as he scored just 2 runs.
Assad Vala: A left-handed batsman and right-arm leg-break bowler from Papua New Guinea. He emerged as the saviour for the team in their last game. He scored 56 runs from 43 deliveries including 4 fours and 3 sixes.
Top Picks – Bowlers
Chris Greaves: A right-handed batsman and right-arm leg-break bowler from Scotland. He performed exceptionally well in the last match smashing 45 runs from 28 deliveries. He also picked up two wickets.
Nosaina Pokana: A left-arm fast bowler who so far played 22 T20Is and picked up 21 wickets. His economy is 6.01 with the best figures of 3 for 21.
Top Picks – Wicketkeeper
Matthew Cross: He started batting well against Bangladesh however, concluded in scoring just 11 runs. A flexible wicketkeeper who performed well behind the stumps.
