Stoinis with a man-of-the-match performance as Australia beat Oman by 39 runs

Stoinis stars as Australia beat Oman in the T20 World Cup

Barbados: Marcus Stoinis smacked a quick-fire unbeaten half-century and claimed three wickets as Australia began their T20 World Cup campaign with a comprehensive 39-run victory against Oman at the Kensington Oval on Thursday.

Stoinis helped Australia recover from a top-order slide with a brutal unbeaten 67-run knock off 36 balls. He also had the company of David Warner who scored a steady 56 runs off 51 balls. Both of them carried Australia to a score of 164/5 in 20 overs.

Oman tried to take the fight to the opposition but their lack of experience showed as they could manage only 125/9 in 20 overs. Mitchell Starc and Nathan Ellis took 2 wickets each to break Oman’s backbone but the star of the show was none other than Stoinis who took 3 wickets which included the wicket of Oman’s captain, Aqib Ilyas and only gave 19 runs in 3 overs. The Aussie also took the important wicket of Zeeshan Maqsood.

Later in Oman’s innings, Ayaan Khan alongside Mehran Khan played impressive cameos of 36 and 27 runs respectively. However, it wasn’t enough as Australia cruised to victory and kicked off their T20 World Cup 2024 campaign with 2 valuable points.