Summary

  • Co-hosts West Indies beat Papua New Guinea by five wickets in opening Group C game

  • They needed 39 from last four overs but get over line with six balls to spare

  • Papua New Guinea recover from 50-4 to post 136-8

  • Sese Bao makes 50 off 43 balls, while Andre Russell and Alzarri Joseph both take two wickets

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Live Reporting

Tom Rostance

  1. WI 53-1

    Target 137

    John Kariko is the latest bowler entering the fray and he's managed to stem the tide in his first three balls.

  2. WI 52-1

    Target 137

    Sese Bao scored 50 earlier on but he's leaked 18 off one over with the ball there.

    West Indies end the powerplay in nice touch.

  3. 'Question the captaincy'

    Geraint Jones
    Former England and Papua New Guinea wicketkeeper on BBC Sounds

    Before the match, this is now what you'd expect to see.

    You have to question the captaincy and whether there was another pace bowler they could have used there. Yes, there is a little bit there for the spinners, but the pace was going well generally.

  4. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Nicholas Pooran hits for sixGetty Images

    West Indies are now flying.

  5. WI 51-1

    Target 137

    Fetch that! Another monster of a six, Nicholas Pooran is here for a good time, not a long time. No stopping that, absolutely crushed over long off.

  6. 6 runs

    WI 44-1

    Sese Bau hit a 50 earlier on and now he's got the ball in his hand. Can he find more magic?

    His first ball is absolutely smashed back over his head by Nicholas Pooran who suddenly finds his form. A huge six!

    Followed by a four. WI have turned it on...

  7. Geraint Jones
    Former England and Papua New Guinea wicketkeeper on BBC Sounds

    Brandon King is the difference at the moment.

    West Indies are ahead of the run-rate but they are not getting there quite as they'd like at the moment I think. It isn't quite flowing for them how they'd like, particularly Nicholas Pooran.

    A worm showing West Indies ahead of PNG after five overs of their Men's T20 World Cup game in GuyanaBBC Sport/CricViz

  8. WI 34-1

    Target 137

    The required run-rate is just over seven and that will help, Brandon King feathering an edge to the fence for another four to end the over.

  9. 'Contrasting styles'

    Geraint Jones
    Former England and Papua New Guinea wicketkeeper on BBC Sounds

    This is where Papua New Guinea will be trusting their processes.

    They will be bowling stump to stumps and looking to restrict West Indies with the slower pace.

    It is an interesting battle of contrasting styles.

  10. WI 29-1

    Target 137

    It's not a bowler's format is it? Chad Soper is the change of bowler, trundling in.

    Nicholas Pooran is not having the start his team-mate at the other end is enjoying, he can't find the middle just yet and looks edgy in the crease.

    Here he comes, looking for the big shot but he doesn't get hold of it and it's two, not six.

  11. Geraint Jones
    Former England and Papua New Guinea wicketkeeper on BBC Sounds

    Who would be a bowler in T20 cricket? He was on top of the world an taking wickets and now he's under pressure again.

    That is what batters do now and it's created the width for the final boundary.

  12. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Brandon KingGetty Images

    Brandon King is absolutely flying.

  13. WI 27-1

    Target 137

    What can Brandon King do against the nagging Nao? He comes down the track and tries to put him into the sea, but misses out altogether.

    However he then does find the meat of the bat with a pleasing thunk, ruining Nao's magnficent start with a crisp four through deep cover. And again! Slapped away for another boundary.

  14. 'Perfect length'

    Geraint Jones
    Former England and Papua New Guinea wicketkeeper on BBC Sounds

    West Indies can't get Alei Nao away at the moment. He's got his length perfect at the moment.

    Nicholas Pooran doesn't want to be two off 10 balls.

  15. WI 19-1

    A general view of the West Indies v Papua New Guinea T20 World Cup gameGetty Images

    It could be Gloucester in early June, not Guyana. A blustery day in the stands for the sparse crowd out there.

    Alei Nao has Nicholas Pooran in strife again, he looks a very handy bowler, finally conceding a single off his ninth ball.

  16. Geraint Jones
    Former England and Papua New Guinea wicketkeeper on BBC Sounds

    All of a sudden the West Indies score is building quite quickly. PNG need to string some dots together.

  17. WI 18-1

    Target 137

    Good recovery from Kabua Morea as he swings one in to Brandon King, who is nearly a goner but insides edges into his pads and safety. King is then given width and finds the fence again, he's dealing only in boundaries today.

    Nicholas Pooran is off the mark with a dab into the off side.

  18. 'Don't pitch it up!'

    Geraint Jones
    Former England and Papua New Guinea wicketkeeper on BBC Sounds

    Don't pitch the ball up too much, it just allows the batter to put their bat through it.

    The PNG bowlers have to work together as a partnership.

  19. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Brandon King has just picked up where he left off.

  20. WI 12-1

    Kabua Morea is the man to bowl from the other end - and Brandon King is dismissive as he slaps the first ball of the over to the long off fence.

    Lovely drive.