In the second match of T20 World Cup, Windies had to pay a heavy price for defeating PNG

The second match of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 was played between West Indies and Papua New Guinea on Sunday. In the match played at Providence Stadium in Guyana, the West Indies team had to sweat to defeat a weak team like Papua New Guinea. In the rain-interrupted match, the Caribbean team struggled to reach the modest target of 137 runs set by Papua New Guinea for victory and the World Cup host team won by scoring 137 runs for the loss of five wickets in 19 overs. After a good partnership between Brandon King and Nicholas Pooran, the Papua New Guinea bowlers gave a jolt to the Caribbean team in the beginning, but after that it was the turn of West Indies to struggle to reach victory as the Papua New Guinea bowlers kept losing wickets at regular intervals. For the Windies team, Reston Chase played an unbeaten innings of 42 runs and led the team to victory. While opener King played an innings of 34 runs. Nicholas Pooran contributed 27 runs. Assad Vala took the maximum of two wickets for Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea chased a target of 137 runs to win against hosts West Indies. Windies won the toss and invited Papua New Guinea to bat first and Papua New Guinea scored 136 runs for the loss of eight wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Sase Bau scored the highest 50 runs for Papua New Guinea. Bau hit six fours and a six in his innings of 43 balls. Alzari Joseph and Andre Russell took two wickets each for Windies and broke the inexperienced batting order of Papua New Guinea.