Sri Lanka beat Australia to knock out of Super 8: After the defeat against Sri Lanka, Australia cricket team is on the verge of being out of ICC T20 World Cup 2026.

New Delhi: Pathum Nissanka’s stormy century helped Sri Lanka defeat Australia by 8 wickets. With this defeat, the Australian team is on the verge of being eliminated from the ICC T20 World Cup 2026. Sri Lanka has become the first team from Group B to reach Super-8. In this way, Sri Lanka has caused the biggest upset of the tournament by eliminating Australia from the Super-8. This is the second defeat out of three for the Sri Lankan team in the group stage. Earlier the Kangaroo team was defeated by Zimbabwe.

In this match played in Pallekele, after losing the toss, the Australian team batted first and scored 181 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. In response, due to Nissanka’s stormy batting, Sri Lanka achieved the target in just 18 overs. Pathum Nissanka remained unbeaten for Sri Lanka after scoring 100 runs in 52 balls. In this innings, Nissanka also hit 10 fours and 5 sixes.

Nissanka became the highest run scorer in the tournament

With his brilliant innings against Australia, Pathum Nissanka has become the highest run scorer in the tournament. Nissanka has scored 137 runs in three matches of the group stage, which includes a century. Before the match against Australia, Nissanka had scored 24 runs against Ireland and 13 runs against Oman. Not only this, Nissanka has become only the second batsman for Sri Lanka after Mahela Jayawardene to score a century in the T20 World Cup.

Kusal Mendis also ruined the Kangaroo team

Apart from Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis also batted amazingly in the match against Australia. Kushal Mendis played an inning of 51 runs in 38 balls. In this innings he also hit 6 fours and 1 four. Apart from this, Pawan Ratnayake played an inning of 28 runs in 15 balls, due to which the Sri Lankan team easily achieved the target.

How was Australia’s batting?

Australia’s batting was very poor in the important match against Sri Lanka. Especially the middle order batsmen worked to increase the problems of the team. Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head, who came to open the innings for Australia, definitely played half-centuries, but after this the entire team disintegrated in the middle order, due to which the team was able to score only 181 runs.