UAE VS SCO - 3rd T20I, Scotland tour of United Arab Emirates 2024

Berrington receives the trophy and his teammates join him as they pose for the photographs. All smiles in the Scottish camp. They lost the first T20I and were restricted to below-par scores in the following two games but the Scotland bowlers showed a lot of character to defend those totals and win the series. That's it from us. Until next time, goodbye...

Richie Berrington | Scotland captain: It wasn't pretty out there. Strange game of cricket. We still had the belief at the halfway point. It was an exceptional performance from the bowlers. It was pleasing to start that way. Wasn't pretty but it was pleasing to get over the line. There was a bit of frustration as we left a bit out there (with the bat), it was tough conditions. UAE bowled really well. We had the belief. (On the youngsters) They have done it in the last couple of games now. We managed to bring some youngsters in, pleasing to see them take their chances.

Muhammad Waseem | UAE captain: Today as well, giving credit to my bowlers, they bowled well exceptionally. The batsmen didn't step up. If I am going early, my team is under pressure. We wanted to make one partnership, but unfortunately didn't do that. Congratulations to Scotland, they didn't bowl any bad balls. (Raja) Last match he also played well, he batted well today, someone had to support him. Lots of youngsters, hope they learn from these mistakes. 

Bradley Currie | Player of the Match: A strange day of T20 cricket, just around 160 runs. Hopefully made for a good watch. Scottish attitude - never say die attitude. It was always the fighting attitude. Plenty of movement, it was easy to bowl four overs and then leave it to the other boys.

22:55 Local Time, 18:55 GMT, 00:25 IST: Shambolic batting performance from UAE! They have been bundled out for their lowest T20I score. Chasing a meagre score of 95, they lost captain Waseem for a duck as he was stumped, thanks to some sharp work by Charlie Tear. Both the new ball bowlers - Currie and Jarvis - were on the money, got the ball to move around and they were aided by some poor strokes. UAE lost half their side for just 14 runs in five overs. Things got worse when Mark Watt picked a couple of wickets in his opening over. Rahul Chopra and Akif Raja stitched a 29-run stand for the eighth wicket and those two were the only UAE batters to get to double-digits. Jarvis returned to break that partnership and Watt brought the curtains down by removing Raja. A convincing 32-run win for Scotland despite getting bowled out 94. Stick around for the presentations...

Mark Watt to Akif Raja, out Bowled!! All over! Scotland win the series 2-1. Flighted outside off, Akif Raja gets down to sweep hard and deflects it onto his sticks via an inside edge. Akif Raja b Mark Watt 28(25) [4s-3]

Mark Watt to Akif Raja, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!

Mark Watt to Akif Raja, no run, chopped to backward point off the under-edge

Mark Watt [2.0-0-11-2] is back into the attack

Jarvis to Junaid Siddique, no run, short of length ball, Junaid Siddique defends from the crease. Jarvis finishes with 3/14!

Jarvis to Junaid Siddique, no run, in-seamer, Junaid Siddique stays leg-side to defend and might have got an inside edge onto the back pad. Appeal for lbw and that's been struck down. Touch too high and missing leg as well

Jarvis to Junaid Siddique, no run, very full, Siddique pushes it towards mid-on

Jarvis to Akif Raja, 1 run, short ball, pulled away to deep square leg who takes it on the bounce

Jarvis to Akif Raja, FOUR, low full toss, Raja shuffles and drives down the ground. Mid-on chases and slides but he can't stop the ball from hitting the boundary rope

Jarvis to Akif Raja, 2 runs, comes down the track and reaches out for this full and wide ball to slice it over backward point off the bottom part of the bat. Raja decides to come back for the second

Junaid Siddique, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Greaves to Omid Rahman, out Lbw!! Another one bites the dust! A googly by Greaves and Omid Rahman geats beaten on his defence. Struck in front of the off-stump and the umpire reckons Omid Rahman is gone. Scotland only one wicket away from clinching this T20I series.. Omid Rahman lbw b Greaves 0(6)

Greaves to Omid Rahman, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

Greaves to Omid Rahman, no run, googly on off, Omid Rahman looks to work it across the line, gets an inside edge on to the pads

Greaves to Akif Raja, 1 run, drags it through the leg-side for a single this time around