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When Australia skipper Mitchell Marsh was asked astir his team’s hopes of making it done to the Super Eight aft a demoralising nonaccomplishment against Sri Lanka connected Monday, helium mentioned ‘the luck of the Irish”.
Australia had to anticipation for Zimbabwe to falter against some Ireland and Sri Lanka successful its adjacent 2 games earlier facing Oman successful its past crippled with the hopes of overturning a Net Run Rate deficit. Unfortunately, the rainfall gods successful Pallekele did not get the memo.
The ICC T20 World Cup Group-B brushwood against Ireland being called disconnected earlier the flip meant Zimbabwe accumulated capable points to articulation Sri Lanka successful the last eight. As for Australia, it failed to suffice retired of the radical signifier for the archetypal clip since 2009.
A nagging drizzle since the greeting of the crippled meant the full crushed was covered agelong earlier the scheduled commencement of 3 p.m. section time. The writer banks of the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, which were teeming with passionate Sri Lankan supporters conscionable 18 hours ago, wore a desolate look.
Fans of squad Zimbabwe cheer arsenic the 2026 ICC Men's T20 Cricket World Cup radical signifier lucifer against Ireland was called disconnected owed to rainfall astatine the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium successful Kandy connected February 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP
The 500-odd fans that were waiting patiently successful the stands did not adjacent request an umbrella for the drizzle. But successful 1 of cricket’s mysterious idiosyncrasies, that was capable to forestall the contention from getting underway.
Zimbabwe isn’t complaining. Nor is Ireland, which had precise small to summation retired of the contest. A downcast Australia, though, volition person to implicit the formalities against Oman and caput backmost location without a semifinal quality for the 3rd successive variation since its 2021 triumph.
