ENG vs OMA Highlights : After a poor start in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, defending titleholders England performed brilliantly and defeated Oman in a one- sided match in just 4 overs. England vs Oman T20 World Cup 2024 match highlights England's platoon made a great comeback and remained in the race for the Super 8 round. The England vs Oman match will take place at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua.
In this match, they registered a big palm against Oman, due to which they're still in the race for Super 8. England sailed out Oman for just 47 runs in the first innings. They chased down the target in 3.1 overs with 8 lattices in hand. England captain Jos Buttler won the toss and decided to club first. In such a situation, Oman's batsmen fell well in front of England's bowling. They were all out for 47 in 13.2 overs.
Shoaib Khan was the loftiest arranger with 11 runs. For England, Adil Rashid took 4 lattices. Jofra Archer and Mark Wood took 3- 3 lattices each. The pitch on which Oman's batsmen sounded to be constantly floundering. England's top batsmen plodded on that pitch. Chasing a target of 48 runs, England did not take important time. England chased down the target in just 3.1 overs, which has significantly bettered their net run rate.
commander Jos Buttler scored an unbeaten 24 off 8 balls at a strike rate of 300, hitting 4 fours and 1 six in the game. Jonny Bairstow scored 8 off 2 balls and Phil Salt scored 12 off 3 balls. Bilal Khan and Kaleemullah took 1 gate each for Oman. Australia has formerly qualified for the Super 8 stage by winning 3 out of 3 matches from GroupB. Scotland are in alternate place with 5 points after winning 2 out of 3 matches and one match was abandoned due to rain. still, England were no better than Scotland before the match against Oman.
But now after registering a big palm over Oman, England's net run rate (3.081) has come better than Scotland's (2.164). England, on the other hand, have 3 points from 3 matches. England will qualify for the Super 8s if they win their coming match against Namibia and Scotland lose their last group stage match against Australia.
England won the match in just 3.1 overs. With this, the Men's T20 World Cup 2024 has come the first platoon in history to achieve this feat. England registered their biggest palm in the history of the T20 World Cup against Oman with the most balls to spare. They won with 101 balls to spare. No platoon has ever won a T20 World Cup ahead.
The record was preliminarily held by Sri Lanka. In 2014, he won the T20 World Cup against the Netherlands with 90 balls to spare. 101 balls- England vs Oman, 2024 Sri Lanka vs Netherlands, 2014 balls- Australia vs Namibia, 2024 balls- Australia vs Bangladesh 2021 81- India vs Scotland, 2021.