Richie Berrington’s all round performance helped Scotland
register their second win in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2021. In the 5th match
of Group B Round 1 fixture Scotland beat Papua New Guinea by 17 runs at Al
Amerat Cricket Ground on Tuesday, October 19. 

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The right-hand middle order batter came to bat after both
Scotland’s openers got out in fourth over. Berrington built a partnership with
Mathew Cross and smashed 70 runs from 49 balls with a strike rate of 142.86.
Apart from his knock with the bat, he also contributed in his team’s fielding
efforts.

On the final ball of sixth over during Papua New Guinea’s
chase, Scottish pacer Josh Davey bowled a full delivery outside the off stump,
Simon Atai went for a big booming drive but ended up slicing the ball towards
point where Berrington timed his jump to perfection and took wonderful catch.
With this, half of PNG’s team had returned to the pavilion and score read 35
for 5. 

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ICC shared a video of Berrington’s catch on their social
media account captioned, “Richie Berrington, not satisfied in impressing with
just the bat, decides to give us a masterclass in the field too.”

Here is the video:

Batting first after winning the toss proved to be good
decision for Scotland as batters managed to post a decent total of 165 for 9 in
20 overs. For PNG, Kabua Morea picked four wickets in his four overs. 

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While chasing a target of 166, PNG batters did not show an
active intention to score runs which resulted in them getting bowled out for
148 runs in 19.3 overs.  For Scotland,
Josh Davey took 4 wickets and giving away 18 runs in 3.3 overs.

With this win against PNG, Scotland is on top of the points
table of Group B with two victories in two matches while PNG have been knocked
out of the tournament with two consecutive defeats.