CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: Marcus Stoinis became only the third player – after Dwayne Bravo and Shane Watson – to score a half-century and take three or more wickets in a men’s T20 World Cup game as Australia opened their campaign with a crushing win over Oman on another tricky surface at the Kensington Oval in Barbados. The eventual margin of their win – 39 runs – would point to a straightforward win for a team looking to simultaneously hold ICC trophies in all three formats but Australia did suffer a slight wobble with the bat and needed Stonis and David Warner to bail them out to an above-par score of 164.
The 15th over of the first innings. Oman had done exceedingly well through the middle phase until that last over of the middle-overs phase when Stoinis survived a chance early on to plunder four sixes in a 26-run over. That turned Australia’s momentum around and allowed them to finish strongly.