Scotland defeats Oman to claim top spot

Scotland is yet to register a loss in this T20 World Cup. With the victory against Oman they got to the top of the points table in Group B. They won the match by 7 wickets. 

Oman Scored 150/7 in 20 overs and Scotland easily chased down the target in 13.1 overs and scored 153/3. 

Scotland in his last match got Namibia out of the track with an easy chase while Oman made Aussies sweat to get the win against them.

Oman, after winning the toss, chooses to bat first. 

Opener Pratik Athavale stood by the skipper’s decision and scored a brilliant half-century. He scored 54 runs for which he took 40 balls and hit 5 fours and 2 sixes. His strike rate was 135. He was the lone top order successful batter from the team in the match. 

Then towards the end, finisher Ayaan Khan showed some good hands and scored unbeaten 41 runs in 39 balls in which 4 boundaries were included. 

Safyaan Sharif got 2 wickets while Mark Watt, Brad Wheal, Christopher Sole and Chris Greaves got 1 wicket each. 

The Scottish team got a thunderous start by the inning of George Munsey who scored 41 runs in 20 balls and hit 2 fours and 4 sixes. Later Brandon McMullen took the charge of destruction and scored an unbeaten super fast knock 61 runs in 31 balls and hit 9 fours and 2 sixes. Strike rate was 196.77 and took his team to a great win. 

Aqib IIyas, Bilal Khan and Mehran Khan got 1 wicket each. 

Brandon McMullen, Scotland, Player of the Match

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