T20 Global Cup warm-ups: White and Younger arrange crushing win for Eire over PNG

The pair picked up six wickets between them to limit Papua New Guinea to 96 for 8

Eire 99 for two (Balbirnie 42*, Campher 42*) beat PNG 96 for 8 (Vala 32, White 3-10, Younger 3-15) by way of 8 wickets

Eire had been too robust for Papua New Guinea, registering an eight-wicket win as the edges began their arrangements for the lads’s T20 Global Cup with a warm-up fixture in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.

PNG elected to bat and limped to 49 for two by way of the twelfth over earlier than the floodgates opened. Ben White, the legspinner, ripped during the middle-order to complete with 3 for 10 off his 4 overs. It integrated the massive strike of PNG captain Assad Vala, additionally the top-scorer within the innings, with 32. It appeared like the innings would resolve briefly after that, however Norman Vanua’s unbeaten 14-ball 18, which integrated the one six of the innings, stored them going. Craig Younger, the seamer, polished the decrease order to additionally end with a three-for.

Eire misplaced Kevin O’Brien and Gareth Delany within the house of an over, however had been pushed house by way of Andy Balbirnie, the captain, and Curtis Campher, who each hit unbeaten 42s and put in combination an unbroken stand of 71.

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