{"id":486121,"date":"2026-02-17T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486121\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:57:12","slug":"australia-knocked-out-of-t20-world-cup-after-zimbabwe-ireland-washout-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486121\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia knocked out of T20 World Cup after Zimbabwe-Ireland washout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia have been knocked out of the Twenty20 World Cup before even finishing their group stage fixtures after Zimbabwe\u2019s match with Ireland in Sri Lanka was washed out.<\/p>\n

With each side taking a point from the rained-off tie, Australia, on two points, can no longer catch Zimbabwe, on five, even if they win their final match against Oman on Friday (Saturday 12.30am AEDT).<\/p>\n

\"Captain<\/p>\n

Captain Travis Head batting last Friday. Australia have since been knocked out of the T20 World Cup in the group stage.Credit: AP<\/p>\n

Regular rain in Kandy meant the covers were on the Pallekele International Stadium for much of the day before the match was finally called off two-and-a-half hours after the scheduled start.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe thus go through to the Super Eight stage with Sri Lanka, with Thursday\u2019s match between the teams deciding who tops the group.<\/p>\n

It is the first time Australia have been knocked out of a World Cup at the group stage, in either the T20 or ODI formats, since 2009. Their only victory was over Ireland, who were also eliminated by the washout.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The match between Ireland and Zimbabwe in Kandy, Sri Lanka was abandoned due to rain.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Seven teams have now qualified for the second round.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe will be in Group 1 along with defending champions India, West Indies and South Africa. Sri Lanka is in Group 2 with England, New Zealand and Pakistan or USA.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Canada batter Yuvraj Samra\u2019s exhilarating century proved in vain as New Zealand advanced to the Super 8s with an eight-wicket win in Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia have been knocked out of the Twenty20 World Cup before even finishing their group stage fixtures after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-486121","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\/486121","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=486121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}