Oman made a big upset in the warm-up match of T20 World Cup, defeated Sri Lanka by 5 wickets.

Warm-up matches of the 2026 T20 World Cup are being played. Their A team is playing in place of many senior teams. Today, Oman had a warm-up match against Sri Lanka A in Colombo. Oman caused a big upset in this match. Oman defeated Sri Lanka by 5 wickets. After the first play, Sri Lanka A had scored 145 runs losing 9 wickets. In response, Oman won in 18 overs by losing 5 wickets.

Talking about the innings of Sri Lanka-A, Sineth Jayawardene made an opening partnership of 23 runs with Dulanith Sigera in 2.4 overs. Senith was out after scoring 9 runs in 5 balls, while Dulnith played an inning of 20 runs in 14 balls. After the fall of the first wicket, Sri Lanka A had lost 4 wickets till the score of 49. From here Sahan Kosala made a partnership of 23 runs with Kavija Gamage. Kavija returned to the pavilion after contributing 12 runs to the team’s account, after which Sahan along with Sachitha Jayathilake made an important contribution in taking the team to the challenging score by scoring 33 runs. Vanuj Sahan was out after scoring 29 runs in 21 balls with 1 six and 2 fours, while Chamindu Wickremasinghe, who came to bat at number 10, played an unbeaten inning of 24 runs in 13 balls with 3 boundaries. For Oman, Shah Faisal, Shakeel Ahmed and Jai Odedra took 2-2 wickets. Whereas Nadeem Khan got 1 wicket.

In response, Oman won by losing 5 wickets in 18 overs. Aamir Kaleem made a partnership of 25 runs with Hammad Mirza in 3.1 overs. Hammad returned to the pavilion after scoring 5 runs. After some time, the team also lost the wicket of Wasim Ali (2). From here, Aamir along with Karan Sonawale brought the team on the track of victory by scoring 35 runs in 26 balls for the third wicket. Karan was out after scoring 8 runs, after which Aamir kept the lead. He brought the team closer to victory by scoring 35 runs for the fifth wicket with Vinayak Shukla.

Aamir Kaleem was out after scoring 80 runs in 47 balls with 3 sixes and 8 fours, while Vinayak played an unbeaten inning of 39 runs in 24 balls with 5 boundaries. For Sri Lanka-A, Vanuj Sahan took the maximum of 3 wickets for 16 runs, while Kavija Gamage and Lahiru Samarakoon took 1-1 wicket.