ICC MT20 WC, 2026 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

17.6: Shamar Joseph to Ali Hasan, OUT! EDGED AND GONE! WEST INDIES WIN BY 42 RUNS! That's it, it's all over for Italy. Shamar Joseph is absolutely pumped and why shouldn't he be? Four catches to go along with four wickets, a very rare feat, indeed. Joseph hammers the ball on a good length around off and extracts extra bounce thanks to his brisk pace. Ali Hasan backs away, trying to slash it away but gets a thin outside edge through to the keeper. Shai Hope takes a comfortable catch and Italy are bowled out for 123 runs in a chase of 166.

17.5: Shamar Joseph to Ali Hasan, Full and straight, right in the blockhole, Ali Hasan digs it out well.

17.4: Shamar Joseph to Thomas Draca, OUT! CAUGHT! Another one bites the dust. Hang on, there's a No Ball check for height. Thomas Draca is on his way back but is asked to stand his ground. Draca is a tall man but the ball seems to be just dipping a bit. Well, well, Draca is jogging back to the crease, or is he? A lot of confusion as Draca is asked to wait again. No one knows what's going on here. Even Langton Rusere, the on-field umpire, is having a chuckle. Finally, the technology confirms that it is a fair delivery and Draca will have to walk back. Coming to the delivery, this is a high full toss over middle, Thomas Draca makes room but ends up angling it straight to Roston Chase at backward point, who makes no mistake. Not the best of deliveries from Shamar Joseph but he won't mind getting a wicket here. 

17.3: Shamar Joseph to Thomas Draca, FOUR! Nicely done. A short ball, at the body, but Thomas Draca backs away and ramps it over the keeper, to the deep third fence.

17.2: Shamar Joseph to Crishan Kalugamage, Full and around off, Crishan leans and pushes it through mid on for a single.

17.1: Shamar Joseph to Crishan Kalugamage, Wasn't there a noise? No one reacts. Might be the excess amount of wax in my ears. Short and wide outside off, Kalugamage slashes but misses. I certainly heard a noise, but does not matter...

17.1: Shamar Joseph to Crishan Kalugamage, WIDE. Dug in short, down the leg side, Crishan Kalugamage looks to tuck but misses.

16.6: Matthew Forde to Crishan Kalugamage, Nice and full, outside off, jammed down to long off for a single. Matthew Forde's fine spell of bowling comes to an end. 4-0-19-3, for him in this game.

16.5: Matthew Forde to Thomas Draca, Forde looks to go full and wide again, but ends up bowling a full toss. Draca scythes it away through backward point and picks up a single.

16.4: Matthew Forde to Gian-Piero Meade, OUT! CAUGHT! Straight to the fielder and Matthew Forde now has his third wicket. Forde sticks to his plans and serves a full ball, well wide of the off stump. Gian-Piero Meade reaches for it and looks to hit it over point but ends up slicing it. Shamar Joseph takes it around waist height and that is his fourth catch of the innings. West Indies are just two wickets away from sealing things now.

16.3: Matthew Forde to Gian-Piero Meade, Pace off, on a length, miles outside off. Would have been a wide, but Gian-Piero gets a long way across and looks to pull, failing to connect. He is targetting that shorter boundary on the leg side.

16.2: Matthew Forde to Gian-Piero Meade, Another similar ball. Meade is standing outside his leg stump and hence, cannot reach the ball. It lands well inside the wide guideline.

16.1: Matthew Forde to Gian-Piero Meade, Excellent yorker, wide outside off, Gian-Piero Meade gets across to drive but cannot lay bat on ball.

15.6: Gudakesh Motie to Benjamin Manenti, OUT! TIMBER! Gudakesh Motie answers right back and sends Benjamin Manenti packing. Slightly short again, this time around off but a bit slower from Motie. Benjamin Manenti backs away, looking to pull off the back foot but is early in the swipe. The ball takes a bottom edge and goes back onto the stumps. It seems like Italy's resistance is slowly but surely coming to an end. Motie ends with figures of 4-0-24-2.

15.5: Gudakesh Motie to Benjamin Manenti, SIX! Oh, that's the Italian muscle from Benjamin Manenti. Short ball, angled into middle, Benjamin Manenti rocks back and swats it flat and wide of long on for a biggie. Italy need more of these from Ben now.

15.4: Gudakesh Motie to Benjamin Manenti, Oh, half a chance for caught and bowled but that's gone through. Floated up on middle and leg, Benjamin Manenti comes down the pitch and pushes it uppishly to the right of the bowler. Motie leaps up to his right and goes at it with both hands but the ball goes through. Matthew Forde at long on runs to his left and puts in a valiant slide to stop the boundary, parrying the ball to Rovman Powell, who mops up and keeps it down to two runs.

15.3: Gudakesh Motie to Gian-Piero Meade, Down the leg side, swept behind square leg for a run.

15.2: Gudakesh Motie to Gian-Piero Meade, Around off, pushed to the off side.

15.1: Gudakesh Motie to Gian-Piero Meade, DROPPED! A rare blemish in the field and it might be more than just a missed opportunity for the West Indies. Brandon King is down on the ground. Full, around off, Gian-Piero Meade looks to play the slog sweep but gets a massive top edge, which goes towards the leg side. Now, there are two fielders for that catch - Brandon King going back from short mid-wicket, while Rovman Powell coming in from deep mid-wicket. Ideally, it should always be the guy running forward but Powell stops after taking a couple of steps. Probably because King was going for the catch. As things would have it, the ball is beyond King's head and while backtracking, he misses the ball, as it goes through his fingers and then, he lands very badly, banging the turf with his head. Powell looks concerned and is asking King whether he is okay, as the batters take a couple of runs.