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Oman vs Australia Scorecard, Match 40, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Feb 20 2026, Fri - 07:00 PM (IST)
OMAN104
AUSTRALIA108/1
Australia won by 9 wickets
CRR:11.17
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | 20/20 World Cup |
| Date: | Feb 20 2026, Fri - 07:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Kandy |
| Venue: | Pallekele International Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | Australia won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Australia Playing XI: | Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (c), Cameron Green, Tim David, Josh Inglis (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Matt Renshaw, Marcus Stoinis, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa |
| Oman Playing XI: | Jatinder Singh (c), Aamir Kaleem, Karan Sonavale, Hammad Mirza, Wasim Ali, Mohammad Nadeem, Vinayak Shukla (wk), Jiten Ramanandi, Jay Odedra, Shakeel Ahmad, Shafiq Jan |
- This will be the second meeting between Australia and Oman in a men’s international fixture after Australia won by 39 runs in their previous meeting at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024; Australia duo David Warner (56) and Marcus Stoinis (67) each scoring a half century on the day.
- Australia have won all seven of their matches against current associate member nations in men’s T20Is, winning by at least five wickets or 50 runs in six of those seven fixtures, while Oman have lost their last 11 consecutive matches against full member opposition.
- Australia have lost two matches at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 and a third defeat would equal their most at a single tournament (3 at 2007, 3 at 2014); indeed, this tournament will be the first time since the 2009 tournament that they’ve failed to progress past the group stage.
- Oman have lost their last three straight men’s T20Is after losing only one of their previous nine matches in the format (W8); though, they have won two of their last three matches when batting first on the day.
- Oman are searching for their third ICC Men’s T20 World Cup win and their first since a 10-wicket win against Papua New Guinea in their opening game of the 2021 tournament; they’ve picked up one tie and eight losses at the tournament since then.
- Oman (10.5) are the only team with a bowling economy of 10 runs per over or more at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup and are the only team with a batting strike rate below 100 (95.4).
- Nathan Ellis (4) and Adam Zampa (4) are Australia’s leading wicket takers at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026; only once before has Australia finished an edition of the tournament without a single player reaching five wickets (2009 – Brett Lee, 3).
- Marcus Stoinis (Australia) has been dismissed for fewer than 10 runs in three of his last four ICC Men’s T20 World Cup innings, including each of his last two, after scoring 286 runs at an average of 57.2 across his previous seven innings which included a knock of 67 runs from 36 balls against Oman in 2024.
- Aamir Kaleem (49) is one away from reaching 50 men’s T20I wickets for Oman and would be the fourth player to reach the milestone for them; he’s taken eight wickets across his last six bowling innings, including 1/29 against Ireland in his most recent appearance.
- Travis Head (Australia) has a batting strike rate of 157.5 at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the highest of any Australian batter to face at least 50 balls at the tournament; he’s scored 334 runs across 10 innings, including 56 runs from 29 balls against Sri Lanka last time out.