narrow victory over Nepal<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn reply, Brad Currie struck early to remove Shayan Jahangir, but Smit Patel batted fluently on his way to 72 as the United States passed 100 inside 16 overs.<\/p>\n
When heavy rain descended, they had reached 160-4 from 26.4 overs, with a daunting revised target of 248 from 32 overs subsequently set.<\/p>\n
Number four Saiteja Mukkamalla – on 56 from 59 balls before the rain – launched an astonishing assault upon the restart, reaching his hundred from just 72 deliveries. <\/p>\n
It was a knock that ensured the match would go to the wire, but he was unable to close the game out. <\/p>\n
With 16 required off the final over, Mukkamalla skied a wide delivery from Brandon McMullen and Scotland captain Richie Berrington took a brilliant diving catch running backwards from extra cover.<\/p>\n
Still, USA took nine runs to leave six needed off the final ball for a tied match. <\/p>\n
Mohammad Mohsin only managed four, meaning the Scots leapfrog USA at the top of the standings having played five matches more.<\/p>\n
“It was a pretty important moment, so I’m luck it stuck in my hands,” Berrington said of his catch to remove Mukkamalla.<\/p>\n
“That was a fantastic knock and once again we’ve gone down to the wire. We made it tougher than we would have liked but really important that we held our nerve.<\/p>\n
“It took us a while to get going again after the rain break. I’m just pleased we managed to close it out. We’re finding a way to get over the line.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland triumphed in another nail-biting match as they beat USA by two runs and moved to the top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-670646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}