T20 World Cup 2024 ENG vs OMA: England has registered a record-breaking win over Oman in the T20 World Cup 2024. The English team finished off Oman in just 19 balls in a do-or-die match. Butler and company first bundled out Oman for just 47 runs. Then won the match with 101 balls to spare. This is the record for the biggest win in terms of balls remaining in the history of the T20 World Cup. Earlier this record was in the name of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka defeated the Netherlands in 2014 with 90 balls to spare.
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With this win, England has strengthened its hopes of reaching the Super-8 of the T20 World Cup. England’s team has now come to third place with 3 points in its Group B. Only Australia (6) and Scotland (5) have more points than England. Namibia is at fourth place with 2 points. Oman (0) lost all its four matches and did not even open its account in the points table.
It is clear that to remain in the race for Super-8, England not only needed a win, but the margin should also have been bigger. Only then would it have gone ahead of Scotland in net run rate. England did just that. It bowled out Oman for 47 runs in just 13.2 overs. After this, it won the match by losing 2 wickets in just 3.1 overs. After this win, it has 3 points in the points table. England’s (3.081) net run rate is now better than Scotland’s (2.164).
4,0,4,4,6,4, Jos Buttler’s storm came, such a sight was never seen before in T20 World Cup
During the match, England captain Jos Buttler’s bat was very good. He faced just 8 balls while opening the innings for the team. Meanwhile, he managed to score an unbeaten 24 runs at a strike rate of 300.00. During this, 4 fours and 1 skyscraper six were seen from his bat. Jos Buttler’s havoc was seen in Bilal Khan’s third over.Â
Bilal Khan bowled the third over of the innings for Oman. Butler looked a little more aggressive in this over of Bilal. He hit a four towards mid-off on the first ball of this over. After that, he got bit on the second ball. He hit the third ball towards backward square leg and got four runs.
The English captain was not satisfied here, he sent the fourth ball for four runs through wide mid-on. On the fifth ball, he hit a huge six. Seeing this, everyone present there was surprised. On the last ball, he hit a brilliant four towards over covers. In this way, Butler scored a total of 22 runs with the help of four fours and a six in this over of Bilal Khan.
Apart from Jos Buttler, the second highest scorer from the English team in this match was Philip Salt. Opening the innings, he scored 12 runs in 3 balls with the help of 2 sixes.
Adil Rashid Player of the Match
The best performance in this match for England was given by leg spinner Adil Rashid. He took 4 wickets for 11 runs in his spell of 4 overs. He also received the Player of the Match award for this performance. Jofra Archer and Mark Wood took 3-3 wickets for 12 runs each. From Oman, only one Shoaib Khan (11) could touch double figures.
England got off to a stormy start chasing the easy target
Opener Phil Salt (12), who plays for KKR in IPL, hit sixes on the first two balls and got out on the third ball. Captain Jos Buttler played an unbeaten innings of 24 runs in 8 balls. Jonny Bairstow scored 8 runs in 2 balls. Will Jacks got out after scoring 5 runs.
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