{"id":302613,"date":"2026-02-17T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302613\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:09:10","slug":"australia-and-ireland-out-of-t20-world-cup-after-wash-out-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302613\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia and Ireland out of T20 World Cup after wash-out in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Irish fans walk by the covered ground before the cancelled T20 World Cup cricket match between Ireland and Zimbabwe in Pallekele, Sri Lanka today. Photo: AP Photo\/Eranga Jayawardena\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/824cbf55-abde-4a0c-a2ad-bcfbd00febce.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Irish fans walk by the covered ground before the cancelled T20 World Cup cricket match between Ireland and Zimbabwe in Pallekele, Sri Lanka today. Photo: AP Photo\/Eranga Jayawardena<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Australia are out of the T20 World Cup after Zimbabwe&#8217;s decisive clash with Ireland in Pallekele was washed out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 2021 winners needed Ireland to beat Zimbabwe to stand a chance of qualifying from Group B behind leaders and tournament co-hosts Sri Lanka, but the game was abandoned without a ball being bowled because of persistent rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">That proved bad news too for the Irish, who needed to beat Zimbabwe and then hope for Oman to pull off a miracle against Australia in their final fixture to progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka will now fight it out for top spot in the group when they meet in Colombo on Thursday, while Travis Head&#8217;s men end their campaign in ignominy back in Pallekele the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Australia got off to a positive start when they beat Ireland by 67 runs, but back-to-back defeats to Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka &#8211; the latter by eight wickets and with two overs to spare &#8211; left their fate in the hands of others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland, who lost their opening fixture to Sri Lanka by 20 runs before going down to Australia, trounced Oman by 96 runs, but their hopes of reaching the Super 8s were ultimately dashed by the weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish fans walk by the covered ground before the cancelled T20 World Cup cricket match between Ireland and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8755,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-302613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}