Toss Australia decide to bowl vs Oman
Mitchell Marsh, the Australia captain, gained the toss and elected to subject of their ultimate sport of the 2026 T20 World Cup towards Oman. There was no place for Steven Smith with Australia making only one change to the taking part in XI, bringing in Matt Renshaw for allrounder Cooper Connolly
“Fresh wicket and hopefully we bowl well,” Marsh mentioned on the toss. “We certainly respect the noise from back home. We knew that was coming. We will reflect on ways to get better. This is a really disappointed group, but today is a World Cup game for Australia and we want to do well.”
Oman, in the meantime, made wholesale adjustments to their XI, 4 of them to be exact. “All those who did not play the previous game are playing tonight,” captain Jatinder Singh mentioned. He additionally added that he needed to bat so the toss is an efficient outcome for Oman.
There is a small smattering of clouds overhead, however nothing threatening as of now. It has been an unfamiliar marketing campaign for Australia, for whom nothing has gone proper since their 67-run win towards Ireland. They have been handed a 23-run defeat by Zimbabwe in Colombo earlier than taking place convincingly towards Sri Lanka by eight wickets in Pallekele. A washout between Zimbabwe and Ireland sealed Australia’s destiny.
Oman, alternatively, have suffered three large defeats. They misplaced to Zimbabwe by eight wickets of their opening sport earlier than being handed a 105-run defeat towards Sri Lanka and by 96 runs towards Ireland.
Australia: 1 Mitchell Marsh (capt), 2 Travis Head, 3 Cameron Green, 4 Josh Inglis (wk), 5 Tim David, 6 Matt Renshaw, 7 Marcus Stoinis, 8 Glenn Maxwell, 9 Xavier Bartlett, 10 Nathan Ellis, 11 Adam Zampa.
Oman: 1 Jatinder Singh (capt), 2 Aamir Kaleem, 3 Hammad Mirza, 4 Karan Sonavale, 5 Wasim Ali, 6 Mohammad Nadeem, 7 Jiten Ramanandi, 8 Vinayak Shukla (wk), 9 Shakeel Ahmed, 10 Shafiq Jan, 11 Jay Odedra.
