IRE VS NAM - 3rd place Play off, ICC Mens T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019

Okay, this one was a warm up. The real deal is in a few hours from now -- the BIG FINALE -- and until we see you then, on behalf of us, ta ta!!

Gary Wilson | Winning skipper: It's not the game we wanted to be playing in today, but nice to sign off with a win. I thought we were around par on this wicket, maybe just a bit low. We were confident that we had enough if we bowled well. When you've got two young lads batting at four or five, it's great. We've had some new faces and that is what you get when you make changes - you'll be up some day and down the next. We are really looking forward to Australia. We have enjoyed this because we qualified, but credit to Netherlands, they deserve to be there in the finals and it should be a good game tonight between them and PNG.

Gerhard Erasmus | Losing skipper: I thought this wicket played better today. 135 was definitely gettable, but needed one or two to get the partnership deeper. When I fell, we needed at eight-nine runs an over, and we should've taken it to another couple of overs. Disappointed at not taking it through, but pleased with our campaign. It is going to be an exciting twelve months and our challenge is to get our squad deeper. We don't have a lot of players playing at high levels. The facilities that we have at the ICC fields in Dubai has been great. It was a properly organized tournament.

Simi Singh | Player of the Match: First of all delighted with the win. Great performance from the team. It's just one those you need it to stick and luckily it did today. Our batters struggled with pace off the ball, so that was the plan for me with the ball as well. Great feeling to be part of the tournament in Australia.

17:19 Local Time, 13:19 GMT, 18:49 IST: So the Irish bowling compensates for what their batting failure. This was a slow pitch, yes, but make no mistake, 135 wasn't going to be enough. But Namibia and their inexperience of keeping their nerve at a stage as big as this stood clearly exposed. The top-order just couldn't get going, Simi Singh's offies had them in all sorts of trouble, and apart from Erasmus' battling lone fifty, nothing went right. The change ups in pace were too hot for the batsmen to handle, and despite the asking rate never quite shooting up, they just kept falling to soft dismissals. Stay on, the presentations are here ..

Mark Adair to Ben Shikongo, out Caught by Andy Balbirnie!! Ireland are officially third. Adair seals things with a full pitch up, something Shikongo wants to drive over extra cover. No. He'll drive it right down his throat instead. Ben Shikongo c Andy Balbirnie b Mark Adair 0(1)

Mark Adair to Ben Shikongo, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Mark Adair to Scholtz, 1 run, short in-nipper, pulled tanely down to long-on

Mark Adair [3.0-0-8-1] is back into the attack

Ben Shikongo, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Rankin to Groenewald, out Caught by Kevin O Brien!! That should simplify things. It wasn't quite the yorker, but it was very full nevertheless. Groenewald looks to hoick it over, but his eventual toe-end on it can only drag it as far as mid-on at the edge of the ring. Groenewald c Kevin O Brien b Rankin 2(6)

Rankin to Groenewald, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Rankin to Groenewald, no run, back of a length angling across. Groenewald swivels to pull, finding mid-on with it

Rankin to Scholtz, 1 run, backs away a touch to slice it down to third man

Rankin to Scholtz, no run, steered away to point. And point hits it direct at the non-striker's. Oooh, Groenewald's just in. It's some task for these umpires in times when the ICC's not allowing third umpires

Bernard Scholtz, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Rankin to Smit, out Bowled!! Tries going extravagant with a room-making slap. But Rankin to his credit keeps it damn simple - full, straight, on the money. Smit misses his swing. And something hits. Smit b Rankin 10(13) [6s-1]

Rankin to Smit, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!

Rankin to Smit, no run, slower short one, beats Smit's cut

Boyd Rankin [2.0-0-16-0] is back into the attack