{"id":89871,"date":"2026-02-17T22:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/89871\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:49:22","slug":"australia-ireland-out-of-cricket-t20-world-cup-as-zimbabwe-qualify-after-washout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/89871\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia, Ireland out of cricket T20 World Cup as Zimbabwe qualify after washout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Former champions Australia were knocked out of the T20 World Cup on Tuesday, with Zimbabwe qualifying for the Super Eights after their match against Ireland was washed out without a ball being bowled in Kandy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The no-result in Pallekelle meant Zimbabwe qualified for the second stage of the tournament for the first time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zimbabwe joined Sri Lanka as qualifiers from Group B and will move on to Group One to face the West Indies, India and South Africa in the next phase. Ireland were also eliminated.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Sri Lankans will be in Group Two with England, New Zealand and Pakistan or the United States.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Persistent drizzle all day kept the covers on at the Pallekelle stadium and the umpires finally called it off at 5.30pm local time (8pm Hong Kong time) with no prospect of beginning the minimum five-over match before the 6.10pm cut-off time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An Irish fan at the ground. Ireland needed to win to have a chance to qualify. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/02\/17\/107dbf5c-e49c-4df9-960c-17c1ae5276c8_29cfd1b6.jpg\" title=\"An Irish fan at the ground. Ireland needed to win to have a chance to qualify. Photo: AP\"\/>An Irish fan at the ground. Ireland needed to win to have a chance to qualify. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zimbabwe stunned 2021 champions Australia by 23 \u200cruns last week \u2013 repeating their feat of the inaugural \u200cedition \u200cof the tournament 19 years ago \u2013 to leave the Australians in a precarious \u2060position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former champions Australia were knocked out of the T20 World Cup on Tuesday, with Zimbabwe qualifying for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[5675,51620,17352,301,7327,51621,47057,7893,51619,131,786,48038,51618,20029,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-89871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-big-bash-league","10":"tag-group-b","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kandy","14":"tag-mitchell-marsh","15":"tag-oman","16":"tag-pat-cummins","17":"tag-south-africa","18":"tag-sri-lanka","19":"tag-steve-smith","20":"tag-t-world-cup","21":"tag-west-indies","22":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116088416782359443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}