Toss Oman chose to field vs Ireland<\/p>\n
Jatinder Singh, the Oman<\/a> captain, called correctly and elected to bowl against Ireland<\/a> in a Group B fixture of the T20 World Cup 2026 at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground in Colombo on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n Oman made one change each in their batting and bowling departments.<\/p>\n Ashish Odedara<\/a>, the middle-order batter, replaced Wasim Ali, who had scores of 3 (from eight balls) and 27 from 20 balls in the first two games respectively, and left-arm spinner Shakeel Ahmed<\/a> came in for Jay Odedra, who returned 1 for 14 from his only over against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n Ireland also made two changes, one of them forced following Paul Stirling’s knee-ligament injury<\/a>, which has ruled him out of the competition. Tim Tector<\/a>, the middle-0rder batter, got in for his sixth T20I, and Josh Little<\/a>, the experienced left-arm quick, came in for middle-order batter Ben Calitz. Lorcan Tucker<\/a> is leading Ireland following Stirling’s exit.<\/p>\n The uncapped Sam Topping has replaced Stirling in the Ireland squad, but will have to wait for his international debut.<\/p>\n Both sides are winless after two games.<\/p>\n Oman are coming in on the back of a pounding against Sri Lanka on Thursday at the same venue, while Ireland were crushed by Australia at the R Premadasa Stadium across the city.<\/p>\n Ireland: Ross Adair, Tim Tector, Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker (capt, wk), Curtis Campher, George Dockrell, Gareth Delany, Mark Adair, Barry McCarthy, Matthew Humphreys, Josh Little<\/p>\n Oman: Aamir Kaleem, Jatinder Singh (capt), Hammad Mirza, Ashish Odedara, Mohammad Nadeem, Jiten Ramanandi, Vinayak Shukla (wk), Nadeem Khan, Sufyan Mehmood, Shah Faisal, Shakeel Ahmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Oman chose to field vs Ireland Jatinder Singh, the Oman captain, called correctly and elected to bowl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-479146","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\/479146","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=479146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}