Associate nation beats Oman | AUS v OMA | T20 World Cup
The Grade Cricketer
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4.7 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Australia take a consolation victory and leave the World Cup with their proverbial tail between their proverbial legs. The Aussies sweep Oman to the side with the best display of performative disappointment you’ll see.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, before the Ashes started, they were the second best team in the world. |
| 0:06.6 | They'd won 16 of their last 20 games. |
| 0:09.2 | In amongst that, they'd won nine or ten games in a row, |
| 0:13.4 | and that was the most they'd ever won in a row. |
| 0:17.1 | But let's be right, Oman, have had an absolutely terrible tournament, |
| 0:20.4 | and they've been beaten today by an associate nation. |
| 0:22.6 | This calls for a bud. |
| 0:23.6 | Yes, Pezza, that's right. I do still sound like this. I apologize, but I am sick and tired of this fucking garbage Australian side. |
| 0:31.6 | Nah. You know, sometimes T20s are good. Sometimes they have to be played. |
| 0:36.6 | Sometimes shows need to occur for contractual regions. |
| 0:40.1 | And here we are on a Saturday morning. |
| 0:41.7 | Australia win for the first time in 10 years. |
| 0:44.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.2 | And you sound like you've been crying and rightly so. |
| 0:48.6 | I can see red eyes and tears. |
| 0:51.0 | But yeah, look, I don't think I can remember a sad Australian team. It was a sad |
| 1:00.5 | disconsolate Australian team with a sad consolation victory. It was a game that Australia won |
| 1:08.8 | much akin to that meme of that young girl dancing while crying. |
| 1:16.8 | Every wicked and boundary Australia took or struck seemed to make them sadder. |
| 1:23.3 | It was a detention game. |
| 1:25.9 | They were in detention and they had to fulfill their obligations and do it well. |
| 1:32.3 | So that's what we saw overnight. |
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