2021 T20 World Cup in UAE/Oman

Oman v PNG at 11 and Scotland v Bangladesh at 3 today will kick things off

Scotland on for a massive win here

Mahmudullah gone, think that's the game (hopefully)

Edit: and that's it. Fantastic they managed to defend that total. (And that they even got to that total the way they were going)

Hi guys.

I'm not really a cricket fan but do enjoy t20 on the TV. Myself and the wife are in Dubai and are heading down to the Ireland v Sri Lanka game in Abu Dhabi.

Tickets are available but does anyone know which area in the ground we are likely to be with Irish fans?

Best impromptu holiday idea I've had in a while.

Netherlands win the toss and will bat first.

Campher hat trick! Scenes.

O'Dowd our for 51. 88/7 now with 3 and a half overs left

106 all out... great stuff, bowling and fielding really has been top quality...

Required run rate is 5.3... very doable...

Great start by Ireland’s openers.. 20-0 after 3 overs... consolidate this and it’s a stroll to victory. 5.11 is the RRR..

shouldt get too conservative on the back of that good start.

A 15 run over from Ireland... theyll cruise home now...after a devastating performance by our bowlers and in the field too this will be done by the 16th over...or thereabouts.

Now is the time to push on for that NRR

That’s about 6 or 7 times that the Dutch bowlers have pulled out of their delivery as they are about to turn their arm over and deliver the ball... umpire can sanction them under the ‘unfair play’ law... they might want to get doing that it’s a joke... I remember the last time we played these they were up to similar tricks.

Van der Merwe dealt with comfortably 0-35. That bodes well.

Great win, don't think anyone thought it would be that straightforward

Delighted for the lads, only have a passing interest stemmed from my late parents who happily signed up as members of Rush cricket club, their mobile site was literally across the road. Had many a good time there with them many moons ago.

Roll on 👍

It’s not a stupid question, teams bat in pairs, so the team has 10 wickets, even though it has 11 players, one player is always not out at the end, even if the team is bowled out. An opening bat can bat through a full innings, but the numbers 2 to 11 could all be dismissed, so they can not continue their innings. In this case Ireland were chasing a low total and lost 3 wickets in a successful chase, the margin of victory is always expressed in terms of runs or wickets, in the case of a chasing team achieving the target, you subtract the number of wickets lost from 10, (the wickets available) to calculate the victory margin. In the case of a team batting first and winning, the victory margin is expressed in runs, for example, India 165/5 in 20 overs beating Pakistan 158/8 in 20 overs would be India win by 7 runs, if Pakistan scored 166/4 inside 20 overs, it would be Pakistan win by 6 wickets

Very impressed by Scotland again. Fell away a bit at the end with the bat, could have got close to 200 at one point. Bowling has been excellent. No team will relish playing them.

Only a 17 run victory in the end after some great lower order hitting. Amazing effort after being 67-6. Not great for Scotland's NNR.

Bangladesh NRR v close to Scotland. Assuming they beat PNG in the first match Thursday they will most likely pass Scotland's NRR. That would mean Oman v Scotland is winner takes all as Oman are already ahead of Scotland on NRR.

As gillespy mentioned that PNG comeback today proving v costly to Scotland

Oman fell in a heap after getting into a decent position to get the runs. Better sides will play out Shakib and the Fizz but instead it looked like they tried to target them. They made the job harder for themselves with poor fielding and catching. Overall not a great standard this game.