T20 World Cup 2022, Day 4 Stats Round-Up: Curtis Campher-George Dockrell partnership, Nicholas Pooran’s lean patch, and other stats

Day 4 of the T20 World Cup 2022 witnessed two interesting encounters from Group B. Curtis Campher and George Dockrell’s unbeaten 119-run partnership helped Ireland in chasing down the target of 177 against Scotland while a fiery spell of 4/16 from Alzarri Joseph took West Indies to a 31-run victory against Zimbabwe.

Talking about the Scotland-Ireland match, skipper Richie Berrington won the toss as the Scottish opted to bat first. Half-centurion from the last game, George Munsey got dismissed for a single while wicketkeeper-batter Matthew Cross made 28 off 21. Scotland’s innings was all about opener Michael Jones who smashed an impressive 86 off 55 with six fours and four maximums.

Captain Berrington also contributed with his knock of 37 off 27 as his side reached 176/5 in 20 overs. In reply, the out-of-form Irish opener Paul Stirling managed only eight while captain Andrew Balbirnie amassed 14. Lorcan Tucker and Harry Tector made 20 and 14 respectively as Ireland found themselves in trouble at 61/4.

But Campher and Dockrell then came to the rescue as the former slamming an unbeaten 72 off just 32 with the help of seven fours and two maximums, while Dockrell remained not on 39 as both took their side over the line with one over to spare. Campher, who also took 2/9 in two overs, grabbed the POTM award as Ireland won by six wickets.

In the other game, skipper Nicholas Pooran won the toss and opted to bat first. Opener Johnson Charles top-scored for his team with his knock of 45 off 36. Pooran’s bad form continued as he managed to score only seven. Rovman Powell made 28 while Akeal Hosein chipped in with 23 as West Indies posted 153/7 in their allotted 20 overs. Sikandar Raza was the star performer with the ball for Zimbabwe for his spell of 3/19 in four overs.

Chasing 154, the Zimbabwean batters let their team down as the team struggled against the pace bowling of Joseph and Jason Holder. The former took all his wickets as bowled in a stunning spell in which he gave away just four runs an over. Holder also snared three scalps for 12 runs in 3.2 overs as the Men in Maroon dismissed Zimbabwe for 122 and registered a victory after their disappointing loss to Scotland. For his match-winning spell, Joseph won the POTM award.

Meanwhile, here are some of the important stats and numbers from Day 4 in Group B matches between Scotland and Ireland and West Indies and Zimbabwe in T20 WC 2022:

119* - Curtis Campher and George Dockrell registered the joint-highest fifth-wicket partnership of 119* in T20 World Cups. Pakistan’s pair of Misbah-ul-Haq and Shoaib Malik also shared unbeaten 119 runs stand against Australia in Johannesburg in 2007.

119* - Campher and Dockrell also scripted the highest fifth-wicket stand of 119* for Ireland in T20Is. Previously, Kevin O’Brien and Greg Thompson shared 59 runs against Hong Kong in the year 2016.

0/59 – Barry McCarthy conceded the second-most runs (0/59) for Ireland in a T20I innings. He is also on top for leaking 0/69 against Afghanistan in Greater Noida in 2017.

48 – Paul Stirling has managed to score just 48 runs in his last six T20I innings at a poor average of 8.00 with the best score of 20. Notably, the Irish opener has also gone 21 innings without a half-century.

180/4 – Ireland achieved their highest successful run-chase in T20 World Cups. Their previous highest was 164/7 against Zimbabwe in Sylhet in 2014.

86 – Michael Jones recorded the highest individual score for Scotland against Ireland in T20Is. He surpassed Richie Berrington’s score of 76 in Dublin in 2019.

3 – The Irish team also scripted their third-highest successful run-chase of 180/4. Their top two chases are 194/6 against Scotland in 2019 and 183/9 against Netherlands in 2019

72* - Campher also smashed the highest score of 72* by an Ireland batter at no. five in T20 internationals. He went past Gary Wilson’s knock of 65* against Scotland in Dubai in 2017.

6 – Nicholas Pooran has registered six single-digit scores in his last seven T20I innings. His scores read as seven, five, two, two, one, 15, and three.

3 – Sikandar Raza achieved his third-best bowling figures of 3/19 in 49 innings. His top two spells are 4/8 against Netherlands and 3/16 against Namibia, both coming this year.

4/16 – Alzarri Joseph delivered his best bowling performance of 4/16 in the format. Previously, he took 3/21 against Australia in Brisbane this year.

2 – Joseph also recorded the second-best figures of 4/16 by a West Indian bowler in T20 World Cups. Samuel Badree is on top for picking up 4/15 against Bangladesh in Mirpur in 2014.