Within the ninth match of the World Cup 2024, Papua New Guinea World Cup second misplaced towards Uganda by three wickets on Thursday.
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Uganda registered their first World Cup victory by chasing 78 runs on the Windfall Stadium, Guyana, Uganda. Uganda chased down the goal within the final over by 3 wickets in hand.
Riazat Ali Shah performed a superb innings of 33 runs in 56 balls with simply just one boundary.
This was Papua New Guinea World Cup second loss, Uganda misplaced 5 wickets earlier on simply 26 runs however Riazat and Juma Miyagi made a partnership on the sixth wicket and introduced the victory for the staff. Riazat mentioned after the match:
“It was not straightforward to bat on this wicket. Once I was in, we misplaced a variety of wickets and I needed to keep in. The goal was not such that I needed to hit massive boundaries,”
“It’s our first World Cup and first win of the World Cup – it’s a particular second for us. Coming to the large stage is an incredible feeling, and due to all our supporters again residence and to our followers world wide.
“Whether or not we had been on the up or down, they’ve all the time supported us. After the primary recreation, we had been a bit down however we knew how gifted we had been, and we wished to indicate the world how good we’re.”
For PNG, Alei Nao and Norman Vanua every grabbed two wickets.
Earlier within the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024, Uganda selected to bowl first after successful the toss towards PNG.
PNG was dismissed for simply 77 runs in 19.1 overs, demonstrating the accuracy of the choice.
In a pitiful batting efficiency, solely three PNG gamers reached double figures.
For Uganda, Alpesh Ramjani, Cosmas Kyewuta, Juma Miyagi, and Frank Nsubuga every took two wickets.
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Each side have suffered losses of their earlier video games going into this one. Of their opening recreation, PNG gave it their all towards the West Indies, the hosts, whereas Afghanistan gave Uganda a tough lesson.
Uganda vs Papua New Guinea Lineups:
Papua New Guinea:
Tony Ura, Assad Vala (c), Lega Siaka, Sese Bau, Hiri Hiri, Kiplin Doriga (wk), Charles Amini, Norman Vanua, Alei Nao, Chad Soper, John Kariko
Uganda:
Simon Ssesazi (wk), Roger Mukasa, Robinson Obuya, Dinesh Nakrani, Riazat Ali Shah, Alpesh Ramjani, Kenneth Waiswa, Brian Masaba (c), Juma Miyagi, Cosmas Kyewuta, Frank Nsubuga
