shortish and on middle, Soper steps away and carves it to backward point
U.S.A. vs P.N.G., 41st Match, Group A at Dublin, Jul 19 2015 - Ball by Ball Commentary
5:15pm: Shahid takes high-fives from his team-mates. Contrastingly, glum faces in the PNG camp. Hong Kong had thumped Namibia by 83 runs to seal their playoff berth. This means that Ireland automatically qualify for the World T20 in India and USA crash out, despite three wins in a row. Hong Kong are now level with Namibia and PNG with 7 points. Until next time, goodbye and good night..
Ghous, USA captain: We did not qualify but we will have to live with it. We finished on a high and will come back strong. I am proud of my boys and there is a lot of talent. We just need more cricket and we have to pick it up. Nicholas' performance in the last two games was great. We would love to come back and play again.
Vare, PNG captain: We couldn't get through the line. We expected USA to come hard at us and we wanted to control what we wanted to control. We are still in the tournament. We couldn't build on partnerships. We will find ways to get back and improve ourselves.
Nicholas Stanford collects his second straight Man-of-the-Match award.
Stanford: I was just getting into my stride. We played well and came out wit another win. I just played my natural game and we knew we had the bowling to defend 147.
Soper makes room outside leg, Shahid slips in a slower one. Beaten
length and on off, clubbed to long-on. Not off the middle of the bat
Gavera steps away outside leg, Shahid chases him. Pushed to the covers
length and on off, dragged to midwicket off the inside half of the bat
Shahid shoves it too full and wide outside off, past the tram line
short and on middle, backed away and carved to deep cover for two
PNG need 27 off the last over.
flighted legbreak, Gavera drives and only meets with thin air
loopy on a leg-stump line, pushed down the ground
good length and pushed to the covers
short and wide outside off, cracked to deep cover
tossed up and turning away outside off, sliced to short third man off the outer half of the bat
full on off, driven past the covers. Soper pushes on for a second. The fielder from sweeper fires an accurate throw to the bowler, who takes the bails off. Vanua out for a duck
"That's exactly how Shahid ran out Irfan Ahmed vs Hong Kong yesterday. Great athleticism in his follow through," says Peter Della Penna
back of a length and outside off, Soper skips back and flashes a cut to backward point
short and wide outside off, bottom-edges a cut behind to Dodson
possibly a slower one outside off, Soper cuts and misses
wide yorker outside off, he can't dig it out
Soper.
USA break into celebrations, again. Short, lifting ball on off, Vanua drops into the pitch and calls for a quick single. Amini is short of his crease. Shahid was sharp to under-arm flick it onto the strikers' end
back of a length and on middle, Amini sits back and punches it to long-on
Vanua..
holes out to long-on. Dai slams his bat onto the turf as he trudges back. Flighted around off, Dai takes the aerial route and slog-sweeps it to Shahid at the edge of the long-on boundary. Big, big wicket for USA