/ 08 November 2021

Cricket gods smile on Oz

Image source: Getty
Image source: Getty

Heading into the weekend, Australia needed to win its T20 Cricket World Cup round game to make the semi-finals. And our short-form blokes did just that, beating the West Indies on Saturday night by 8 wickets with 22 balls to spare. That saw us end up in 2nd place on the table in their group – but that alone wasn’t enough to secure a place in the pointy end of the competition… South Africa beat England – but not by the 58 runs required to jump into the final 2 in our group to go through. And look, we don’t like cheering for a less than good result, but yay… England goes through with us. We’ll take on either Pakistan or Kiwiland in the semis at 1am Friday morning. C’mon Aussie… Not securing a win on the international stage: the Wallabies. Our national rugby side went down to Scotland 13-15 overnight, dashing hopes of turning 5 consecutive wins into 6.

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