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Wounded Australia concluded what has been a wretched run with a nine-wicket thrashing of Oman successful their inconsequential last radical league fixture of the T20 World Cup present connected Friday (February 20, 2026).
Entering the crippled with lone pridefulness astatine involvement aft their shocking group-stage exit pursuing losses to Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, seasoned leg-spinner Adam Zampa led the mode with 4 wickets arsenic Australia's bowlers fired successful unison to bundle retired Oman for 104 successful 16.2 overs.
Skipper Mitchell Marsh past blazed distant to an unbeaten 64 disconnected 33 balls and Travis Head smashed 32 disconnected 19 deliveries, arsenic the squad from Down Under completed the pursuit successful lone 9.4 overs. This is the associated fastest pursuit successful the tournament's past for a full successful excess of 100.
Marsh struck 4 sixes and 7 fours successful all, portion Head recovered the obstruction six times during their rollicking 93-run partnership.
The ascendant performance, however, would surely not disguise what has been a disappointing campaign, which has already led to calls for a full-scale review.
Once the bowlers did their occupation admirably, Marsh and Head seemed to beryllium successful a hurry, dealing successful fours and sixes that near the Oman bowlers scurrying for cover.
Earlier, Zampa ended with fantabulous figures of 4/21, portion Xavier Bartlett and Glenn Maxwell took 2 wickets apiece, arsenic Oman collapsed without a combat successful 16.2 overs.
Wasim Ali top-scored for Oman with 32 disconnected 33 balls.
Already retired of the Super 8s contention, Australia opted to tract and tasted occurrence connected the archetypal shot of the match, erstwhile Xavier Bartlett's crisp incoming transportation went done the spread to shatter Aamir Kaleem's stumps.
After Bartlett's 4 dot balls, Karan Sonavale came down the way and smashed a fuller transportation done mid-off to unfastened Oman's relationship with a boundary.
In what would beryllium to beryllium an eventful archetypal over, Glenn Maxwell dropped a sitter astatine 2nd gaffe aft Bartlett induced an borderline from Karan with a precocious outswinger.
Oman Skipper Jatinder Singh skipped down the way to thrust Marcus Stoinis done covers for a 4 and, successful the adjacent over, helium made country for himself to chopped Bartlett for a boundary.
Karan Sonavale welcomed Nathan Ellis into the onslaught with a bound disconnected a slower ball, managing to wide the mid-on fielder by immoderate distance.
However, Ellis struck successful the precise adjacent ball, the batter chopping a speedy transportation connected to the stumps aft attempting to play the chopped shot.
Jatinder got a bound disconnected Bartlett with a good changeable done cover-point, but the bowler had the past laughter with an fantabulous transportation that crashed into the stumps and determination was nary footwork from the captain, the wicket leaving Oman successful a spot of fuss astatine 39 for 3 successful 5 overs.
Hammad Mirza showed his people arsenic helium smoked a Cameron Green shot implicit constituent for a six to assistance Oman to 47 for 3 astatine the extremity of powerplay.
Australia skipper Mitchell Marsh continued with Bartlett, and Mirza and Wasim Ali got a 4 each, pursuing which experienced leg-spinner Adam Zampa was introduced and helium succeeded successful his archetypal over.
Even arsenic Mirza looked to spell the backmost foot, Zampa bowled 1 that skidded disconnected the transportation to deed the stumps.
Maxwell past made amends for his driblet drawback with 2 wickets.
