{"id":155531,"date":"2025-09-20T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155531\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:54:09","slug":"india-avoid-oman-upset-at-asia-cup-with-21-run-t20-win-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/155531\/","title":{"rendered":"India avoid Oman upset at Asia Cup with 21-run T20 win | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">India given scare by Oman but winning run continues after 21-run victory at 2025 Asia Cup.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758329649_597_2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 19 Sep 202519 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>World champions India overcame a gutsy Oman team to win the last group match of the Asia Cup by 21 runs and stay unbeaten in the T20 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>India had already qualified for the Super Four stage and posted 188-8 after they elected to bat first at Abu Dhabi on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Oman \u2013 ranked 20th in world T20 rankings \u2013 put up a spirited batting show and finished on 167-4 after top knocks from Aamir Kaleem, who made 64, and Hammad Mirza, who hit 51.<\/p>\n<p>The left-right batting pair of Kaleem and Mirza put on 93 runs for the second wicket and attempted to pull off the chase with some late boundaries that gave India a scare.<\/p>\n<p>Hardik Pandya broke the stand with a stunning outfield catch to dismiss Kaleem off Harshit Rana and then sent back Mirza with his pace bowling in the next over.<\/p>\n<p>Left-arm quick Arshdeep Singh snared the fourth wicket of the innings and his 100th in T20 internationals \u2014 the first Indian bowler to reach the century mark.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson top-scored with 56, and his second-wicket partnership with explosive opener Abhishek Sharma, who made 38 off 14 balls, laid the platform for India\u2019s total.<\/p>\n<p>Oman struck regular blows in their first meeting with the reigning T20 World Cup winners.<\/p>\n<p>Shah Faisal, fellow left-arm quick Jiten Ramanandi and left-arm spinner Kaleem took two wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>India and Pakistan moved into the Super Four from Group A and face each other again on Sunday, a week after India\u2019s players refused to shake hands with their neighbours after victory in a group match.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka clash with Bangladesh in the first match of the Super Four on Saturday after the two teams made the next stage from Group B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India given scare by Oman but winning run continues after 21-run victory at 2025 Asia Cup. Published On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[1724,64,63,740,1209,12241,44,1354,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-155531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-oman","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155531","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=155531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}