{"id":438201,"date":"2026-02-21T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:31:08","slug":"australia-sign-off-with-dominant-win-over-oman-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438201\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia sign off with dominant win over Oman | ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/mens-t20-world-cup-2026\/matches\/268110\/australia-vs-oman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been a troubled campaign for Australia, but the former champions ended T20 World Cup on a high, as they beat Oman by nine wickets in Kandy.<\/p>\n<p>Battered by injuries before and during the tournament, Australia missed out on Super Eight slot after losing to Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, in their final group game, Australia chased down a modest target of 105 in 9.4 overs. Captain Mitchell Marsh led the way, galloping to a half-century in 26 balls and finished with an unbeaten 64 off 33. Australia struck 15 fours and four sixes to race to the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>His opening partner Travis Head fell for 32, off a brilliant caught and bowled by Shakeel Ahmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scorecard It has been a troubled campaign for Australia, but the former champions ended T20 World Cup on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,67813,67811,16326,67828,103095,67833,67814,6518,67832,103093,67815,67810,103098,101,103094,103096,67812,56,54,55,103097],"class_list":["post-438201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-headlines","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-news","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-icc-announcements","tag-sports","tag-t20-world-cup-news-updates","tag-today-cricket-match-news","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-cup-cricket-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}