Bangladesh off to a flyer in Plate Championship

Papua New Guinea and Bangladesh played a 40-over match in the ICC Under-19 World Cup Plate Championship in Auckland today with 18 of the overs being enough for Bangladesh to take a nine-wicket win.

PNG were all out for 75 in the space of 22.5 overs after winning the toss and batting first. Three PNG batsmen made it into double figures. Clive Elly scored 11, Mahuta and Kohu Dai each scored 10. But that was the only small hint of positiveness in the PNG batting where the extras 12 were the highest score.

Wassel Uddin bowled five overs and took three for 13 while Shafaq Al Zabir took four for 29 from his six.

Aftab Ahmed Chaudhury provided the only solace for PNG when Bangladesh batted. He was bowled by Peter Arua for eight. Shafiul Alam hit 31 not out and Nafis Iqbal was 25 not out as the winning runs came in the 19th over.