The fast bowler’s only wicket on Friday was picked up in the last over to restrict Oman, playing India for the first time in any format of cricket, to a respectable 4-167 as they chased 189.<\/p>\n
India, experimenting with their battling order ahead of their first Super 4 game against Pakistan on Sunday, had earlier made 8-188 with captain Suryakumar Yadav even demoting himself to No. 11.<\/p>\n
Instead, Sanju Samson led the way with 56 off 45 balls while Abhishek Sharma hit a typically flamboyant 38 off 15.<\/p>\n
India and Sri Lanka were left unbeaten in the group stages with three wins each, with Pakistan and Bangladesh the others to qualify for the Super 4 stage.<\/p>\n
In the absence of rested fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah and new world No.1-ranked T20 bowler Varun Chakravarthy, it still felt a little surprising that the India bowlers struggled to dismiss Oman.<\/p>\n
Suryakumar tried eight bowlers but only Hardik Pandya (1-26) and Arshdeep bowled out their full quota of four overs.<\/p>\n
Amir Kaleem top-scored for Oman with 64, with support from Hammad Mirza (51) and captain Jitender Singh (32).<\/p>\n
Abhishek, dropped on 21, then gave India brisk start with two sixes and five boundaries.<\/p>\n
Samson was slow to begin with and brought up his half-century in the death overs before holing out at deep mid-wicket. India scored only 21 off the final three overs that featured just one boundary.<\/p>\n
Fast bowler Faisal Shah (2-23) led Oman, while Jiten Ramanandi and Aamir Kaleem also picked up two wickets each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fast bowler’s only wicket on Friday was picked up in the last over to restrict Oman, playing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-155614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155614","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=155614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}