Co-hosts 'sorry' after T20 World Cup collapse

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Bangladesh overcame sloppy fielding and erratic bowling to bushed co-host Oman by 26 runs connected Tuesday and support its hopes live of advancing successful the T20 World Cup.

Scotland, which upset Bangladesh successful their Group B opening game, eliminated spirited debutant Papua New Guinea by signaling a 17-run triumph earlier Tuesday. The apical 2 teams beforehand to the Super 12. Scotland faces Oman connected Thursday, erstwhile Bangladesh meets PNG.

Opening batsman Mohammad Naim, who replaced Soumya Sarkar, reached 64 and Shakib Al Hasan scored 42 disconnected 29 balls earlier Bangladesh was bowled retired for 153 disconnected the past ball.

Mustafizur Rahman bowled 5 wide balls successful his archetypal implicit and besides dropped 1 of the 2 aboriginal catches earlier bagging 4-36 arsenic Bangladesh got its enactment unneurotic successful the second fractional of the innings and restricted Oman to 9-127.

“We’ll instrumentality this win, but I deliberation determination are a batch of areas we request to improve,” Bangladesh skipper Mahmudullah said. “Shakib and Naim batted brilliantly ... but we should person done amended with the caller ball, bowled a batch of wides. We request to spot those areas and close them.”

Oman had a sniff until opener Jatinder Singh (40) was astatine the crease, but erstwhile Shakib (3-28) had him caught successful the heavy and off-spinner Mahedi Hasan bowled an economical spell of 1-14, the co-host capitulated.

Earlier, aft losing the toss, Oman besides had a below-par show successful the tract with Naim doubly getting dropped. Shakib and Naim some shared 80-run 3rd wicket basal but Bangladesh mislaid 8 wickets for 52 runs erstwhile careless Shakib got tally retired successful the 14th over.

Fast bowlers Bilal Khan grabbed 3-18 and Fayyaz Butt, who took a spectacular diving drawback disconnected his ain bowling to disregard Mahedi for 0 aboriginal on, took 3-30.

“It was rather a chaseable target,” said Oman skipper Zeeshan Maqsood. “We needed 50-odd runs successful 36 balls, it’s not a large borderline … atrocious to the people, we couldn’t marque them happy. We person to spot wherever we went wrong, travel backmost and ace that.”

Scotland eliminates PNG

A 92-run concern betwixt Richie Barrington (70) and wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Cross (45) formed the cornerstone of Scotland’s full of 9-165 contempt PNG claiming six wickets for conscionable 15 runs successful the past 2 overs.

PNG came backmost powerfully aft losing fractional of its broadside wrong the archetypal six overs for conscionable 35 runs, but was bowled retired for 148 with 3 balls remaining.

“We got conscionable implicit par (total) connected that wicket,” Barrington said. “At first, we didn’t person a people successful mind, and conscionable wanted to get utilized to the wicket. Thankfully, we managed to get that large concern which was rather cardinal successful the end.”

Norman Vanua gave PNG an extracurricular accidental with a apical people of 47 portion Kiplin Doriga (18) and Chad Soper (16) added precocious runs.

Fast bowler Josh Davey picked up 4-18 that included the cardinal wicket of Vanua, who was caught down successful the 18th over.

Earlier, Barrington featured successful the beefy third-wicket basal arsenic helium struck six fours and 3 sixes disconnected 49 balls. Cross consumed 36 balls and smashed 2 fours and 2 sixes.

PNG did good precocious successful the innings erstwhile Charles Amini made 2 bully catches successful the heavy to disregard Cross and Barrington. Fast bowler Kabua Morea (4-31) claimed 3 of his wickets successful the past implicit during which Michael Leask (9) was tally out.

“If we tin get much vulnerability we mightiness beryllium capable to explicit ourselves better,” PNG skipper Assad Vala said. “Scotland are a truly bully bowling squad and they enactment america nether unit and we crumbled. The little bid brought america backmost into it.”

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