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WI vs PNG T20WC 2024: The West Indies and Papua New Guinea will lock horns on Sunday 2nd June ahead of the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup tournament. The WI vs PNG match is scheduled at Providence Stadium in Guyana starting at 8 pm.
As a co-host West Indies secured the T20 World Cup ticket and became one of the 20 teams participating in the ICC biggest tournament. It will be the second time the West Indies will host the T20 World Cup after 2010. In the 2nd group Stage match, West Indies will meet Papua New Guinea and play their first match in the 2024 World Cup.
On the other side, Papua New Guinea landed in the ICC T20 World Cup via qualification through the East Asia-Pacific Qualifier. In the T20 World Cup Qualifiers, PNG was unbeaten winning all six games and finishing as league topper.
We Fantasy Khiladi looked deeper into both the WI and PNG teams’ best players’ records and compared 3 batters vs bowlers key player battles to watch out for in today’s T20WC 2024 match 2
Let’s look at the WI vs PNG records and stats for the upcoming 2024 T20WC match 3 in the Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium.
West Indies vs Papua New Guinea T20 Head-to-Head Records
West Indies and Papua New Guinea haven’t played any T20 International cricket match yet. The last time West Indies and Paua New Guinea met each other was in the 2018 ICC ODI World Cup Qualifiers at Old Hararians Sports Club in Zimbabwe.
Check out WI vs PNG T20 head to head battle records and player records.
WI vs PNG Player T20 Head-to-Head Battle & Player Stats
The West Indies and Papua New Guinea haven’t played any T20 World Cup games yet. On 2nd June for the first time, West Indies will face Papua New Guinea in the T20 World Cup Group Stage match 2 at Providence Stadium in Guyana.
Let’s check out some of the key players of both WI and PNG batters vs bowlers’ records ahead of the T20 World Cup 2024.
Top 3 Key Player Battle Between WI vs PNG Match 2 of T20 World Cup 2024
In the upcoming 2024 T20 World Cup Group stage match 2, Rovman Powell will lead the West Indies against Papua New Guinea. East Asia-Pacific Qualifier Papua New Guinea was exceptional in the T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament winning all six games. Ahead of the 9th edition of the T20 World Cup Assad Vala will once again lead his players. Where PNG is full of young talents on the other hand, West Indies have Andre Russell, and Nicholas Pooran who are amazed at their T20 performance in the IPL. Plus Brandon King and Johnson Charles played great innings last couple of T20I games.
Let’s take a look at 3 Key Players’ battles for the WI vs PNG ahead of the T20 World Cup.
1. Johnson Charles vs Charles Amini
WI wicketkeeper-batter Johnson Charles is a right-armed batter from the tiny Windward Island. Johnson Charles is also the opener of the WI T20 team and made his selection for the WI T20 World Cup squad’s best 15 men. In the last WI vs SA match, Johanson bagged 69 runs knocking in just 26 balls. It will be interesting to watch Johnson against PNG Southpaw allrounder Charles Amini who comes from a family of cricket. Charles who is also known as CJ Amini is one of the leading wicket-takers of the PNG.
2. Brandon King Vs John Kariko
The next player battle will be between Brandon King and John Kariko in the upcoming 2024 T20 World Cup match 2. Brandon King is one of the top batters of the WI team with smashing records. In the last T20I match, Brandon King knocked 44 runs in 28 balls with a 157.14 strike rate against South Africa.
Left-handed batter John Kariko is one of the youngest talents of the PNG T20 World Cup squad. In the last match of Malaysia vs Papua New Guinea, John KAriko scalped 2 wickets while conceding 22 runs in just 4 overs.
3. Tony Ura Vs Gudakesh Motie
Last but not least Tony Ura vs Gudakesh Motie is the third WI vs PNG key players battle ahead of the T20 World Cup 2024. So far veteran player Tony Ura is one of the best products in Papua New Guinea cricket history. In his overall T20I career, Tony Ura has played 56 matches and scored 1618 including his unbeaten 107 highest score.
Then we have Gudakesh Motie, one of the top spinners of the West Indies team and a regular part of the T20I team. In his last T20I fixture, Gudakesh Motie took 2 wickets and conceded 21 runs in 3 overs against Protease.
So these are our top 3 West Indies vs Papua New Guinea key player battles ahead of the T20 World Cup 2024 Tournament.
