Summary

  • New Zealand v Papua New Guinea, Group C, Trinidad and Tobago

  • Black Caps chase down 79 in 12.2 overs to win by seven wickets

  • Papua New Guinea bowled out for 78 off 19.4 overs

  • Kiwi fast bowler Ferguson claims three wickets without conceding a run off his four overs

  • Both sides already eliminated from Super 8s contention

  • Scroll back through live text to watch highlights

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter & Stephan Shemilt

  1. PNG 61-7

    Tim Southeee is bowling his fourth. Boult has one left. Ish Sodhi has two more. That should be the lot, from an NZ point of view. This really is turning into revenge for the PM getting stuck in PNG.

  2. Will Young
    New Zealand batter on BBC Sounds

    One of the big gaps between the associate nations and the Test-playing ones is the latter can generate more pace out of the pitch.

  3. PNG 59-6

    Kiplin Doriga, the wicktekeeper, and Norman Vanua are the men at the crease, trying to drag PNG to three figures. It looks a big ask from here.

  4. wicket

    WICKET

    Hiri b Boult 7 (PNG 56-6)

    Trent Boult, in possibly his last game for New Zealand, gets in on the act.

    Hiri Hiri backs off and loses his leg stump.

  5. Will Young
    New Zealand batter on BBC Sounds

    52-5 after 15, I'd love to see Papua New Guinea scrap through to 90 or even 100. It's going to be a tough ask against this experienced New Zealand bowling line-up.

  6. PNG 52-5

    Ferguson gets big licks from his team-mates as Santner continues at the other end. This was the wicket Santner took earlier, Bau holing out at long-on.

  7. PNG 45-5

    There it is!

    Lockie Ferguson completes four maidens, only the second man to do so in a T20 international and the first at a World Cup.

    Throw three wickets in there too. Superb. 4-4-0-3 are the figures, like the start of an international dialling code.

  8. PNG 45-5

    Wants a single. Not there. One more delivery for the full house...

  9. PNG 45-5

    Miscue to mid-off. Another dot.

  10. PNG 45-5

    Is that a single? It is! Booo.

    No wait... a leg bye! It's still on.

  11. Will Young
    New Zealand batter on BBC Sounds

    Soper just hanging back, the pace of Lockie Ferguson making him sit on the back of the foot. The ball just scuttled off the pitch, what a spell it's been - it's quite odd sitting here in a T20 game, hoping for dot balls.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Soper b Ferguson 1 (PNG 43-5)

    Bowled him! Stumps everywhere. Chad Soper goes. More importantly, it's a dot ball...

  13. PNG 43-4

    Ferguson is bowling now. Dot ball. Five more required...

  14. PNG 43-4

    Chad Soper is the new man. I wonder when Lockie Ferguson will bowl his fourth. I'm excited for it.

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

    I think it was there to hit, it was definitely in the slot - he just didn't get anything on it.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Bau c Allen b Santner 12 (PNG 41-4)

    Hmmmm. You worry for PNG here.

    Sese Bau tries to hit Mitchell Santner down the ground and only picks out Finn Allen at long-on. 100 looks a long way away. Implosion is a real possibility.

  17. PNG 41-3

    The wonderfully named Hiri Hiri is the new batter. Lockie Ferguson is six balls away from bowling four overs without conceding a run. It's only happened once in a men's T20 before. Canada's Saad Bin Zafar against Panama in 2021.

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

    The last seven overs have just ticked over. New Zealand have now got a new batter in, and they'll be looking to Papua New Guinea out for around 75,

  19. wicket

    WICKET

    Amini lbw Ferguson 17 (PNG 41-3)

    Yep, goneski.

    It's kept a bit low from Lockie Ferguson, trapping the jumping Charles Amini on the crease. Three reds. Goodnight.

  20. Matt Floyd
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    I think this looks very close, that ball did not get up at all.