In a telling signal of Australia’s botched T20 World Cup marketing campaign, none of its gamers earned choice within the Worldwide Cricket Council’s group of the match.
It is a grim indication of an Australian squad’s failure to succeed in the semi-finals on dwelling soil simply 12 months after clinching the title within the Center East.
Maybe Australia’s unluckiest omission from the group of the match is Marcus Stoinis, the squad’s prime run-scorer with 126 on the common of 42 and strike-rate of 161.53.
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The hulking all-rounder’s most influential knock of the competitors, an unbeaten 59 runs from 18 balls, bailed the Australians out of bother in a conflict with Sri Lanka in Perth. If it wasn’t for Stoinis blasting the quickest half-century by an Australian in T20 worldwide cricket, there’s each probability the hosts would have crashed to 0-2 initially of their title defence.
The 33-year-old was crushed to the middle-order spots within the group of the match by Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav and Glenn Phillips — all of whom notched extra runs than Stoinis.
It is intriguing to notice, nonetheless, that of the competitors’s prime 26 run-scorers, Stoinis’ strike-rate of 161.53 was solely bettered by Yadav (189.68) and Rilee Rossouw (169.87).
4 England gamers made the 12-man group of the match, in addition to three Indians and two Pakistanis, whereas New Zealand, Zimbabwe and South Africa are additionally represented.
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England’s domination of the group is a nod to its great World Cup marketing campaign that culminated in a five-wicket win over Pakistan within the closing on Sunday evening.
Helped by the Duckworth-Lewis technique, the Irish dealt the English a shock five-run loss, however captain Jos Buttler and his teammates had been in any other case excellent.
They had been at their most damaging as Buttler and Alex Hales, the group of the match’s opening batters, propelled England to a 10-wicket semi-final victory over India with 4 overs to spare.
England then chased 138 runs within the closing on the MCG on the again of a composed half-century by Ben Stokes, who wasn’t named within the competitors’s greatest group.
ICC’s T20 World Cup group of the match
1. Alex Hales (England) 2. Jos Buttler (England) 3. Virat Kohli (India) 4. Suryakumar Yadav (India) 5. Glenn Phillips (New Zealand) 6. Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe) 7. Shadab Khan (Pakistan) 8. Sam Curran (England) 9. Anrich Nortje (South Africa) 10. Mark Wooden (England) 11. Shaheen Afridi (Pakistan) twelfth man. Hardik Pandya (India)
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