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England vs Oman T20 World Cup 2024 Match Highlights: England has made a great comeback in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024 tournament and remains in the race for the Super 8 round. England performed brilliantly in the match between England and Oman at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. They registered a big win against Oman in this match, due to which they are still in the race for the Super 8.
England won the toss and bowled first and bowled out Oman for just 47 runs. After this, they achieved the target in 3.1 overs with 8 wickets in hand. England captain Jos Buttler won the toss against Oman and decided to bowl first. In such a situation, Oman’s batsmen failed in front of England’s penetrating bowling. They were all out for just 47 runs in 13.2 overs.
On the pitch on which Oman’s batsmen were seen struggling continuously, England’s key batsmen wreaked havoc on that pitch. It did not take much time for England to chase the target of 48 runs. England achieved the target in just 3.1 overs, improving its net run rate significantly. Captain Jos Buttler scored an unbeaten 24 off 8 balls at a strike rate of 300 and hit 4 fours and 1 six in the innings. Phil Salt scored 12 runs off 3 balls and Jonny Bairstow scored 8 runs off 2 balls. Bilal Khan and Kalimullah took 1-1 wickets for Oman.
T20 World Cup 2024, Group and Points Table
Australia have already qualified for the Super 8s from Group B by winning 3 out of 3 matches. Scotland are second with 5 points after winning 2 out of 3 matches and one match being cancelled due to rain. However, England were not better than Scotland before the Oman match. But now after the big win over Oman, England’s net run rate (+3.081) has become better than Scotland (+2.164).
England currently have 3 points from 3 matches. If they win their next match against Namibia and Scotland lose their last group stage match against Australia, England will qualify for the Super 8s.
England beat Oman in 3.1 overs
England created history by defeating Oman in just 3.1 overs. With this, it has become the first team to achieve this feat in the history of Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. England registered the biggest win over Oman with the most balls remaining in T20 World Cup history. They won the match with 101 balls remaining.
Before this, no team had been able to register such a big win in the T20 World Cup. This record was earlier in the name of Sri Lanka. In 2014, they won the T20 World Cup match against the Netherlands with 90 balls remaining.
The team that achieved the biggest win with the most balls remaining in T20 World Cup history
101 balls – England vs Oman, 2024
90 balls – Sri Lanka vs Netherlands, 2014
86 balls – Australia vs Namibia, 2024
82 balls – Australia vs Bangladesh, 2021
81 balls – India vs Scotland, 2021
