Leading Online Desk : Australia defeated Scotland by 5 wickets in the 35th match of ICC T-20 World Cup 2024. Australia won the toss and elected to bowl first at the Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium in St Lucia. Batting first, Scotland scored 180 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Australia reached the target for the loss of 5 wickets in 19.4 overs.
Scotland's explosive performance certainly set the stage for England's exit from the 2024 T20 World Cup, but in the end, the veteran Australia's victory was a consolation for Jos Buttler's side. After their win against Namibia, England needed Scotland's defeat against Australia. Only then would the English team be able to get a ticket to the Super-8 of the 2024 T20 World Cup. And so it happened. Scotland set their highest T20 World Cup score against Australia. Still they had to accept defeat by 5 wickets. With this, the English team qualified for the Super-8 with 5 points. Their run rate remained higher than Scotland. As a result, Scotland had to settle for third place in Group B.
Scotland set Australia a target of 181 runs
Scotland had set a target of 181 runs against Australia. Brandon McMullen scored 60, skipper Richie Berrington 42 not out, George Munsey 35 and Matthew Cross 18 for Scotland. Glenn Maxwell took two wickets for Australia. Ashton Agar, Nathan Ellis and Adam Zampa took 1 wicket each. Australia achieved this target by losing 5 wickets in 2 balls. Travis Head and Marcus Stoinis played an amazing innings in Australia's chase. Both of them scored half-centuries. Head scored 68 off 49 balls while Stoinis scored 59 off 29 balls. Apart from this, Team David played a useful innings of 24 runs off 14 balls.
In the fifth over of Australia's innings, Michael Jones dropped the catch of Travis Head. At that time he was batting on 17 runs. The catch drop cost the team dearly, as Head shared an 80-run partnership with Marcus Stoinis. At the same time, Australia won the match by scoring 68 runs in 49 balls.
Stoinis man of the match
Marcus Stoinis, who came to bat at number five for Australia, scored 59 runs off 29 balls. Stoinis and Travis Head put on an 80-run partnership for the fourth wicket. Stoinis was adjudged man of the match.
