Oman became the last team to qualify for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020 after snatching a victory against Hong Kong in the low-scoring fourth Qualifying Play-off of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 on Wednesday (30th October) night.
After winning the toss, Oman batsmen hugely struggled against the Hong Kong bowlers. Once they were battling on 42/6 as the top seven batsmen failed to reach the double-digit scores, excluding the opener Jatinder Singh. Jatinder and the lower-order batsman Naseem Khushi’s remarkable efforts helped Oman to reach to the respectable first-innings total.
Opening batsman Jatinder scored 67 runs not out off 50 balls (7 fours and only six). Meanwhile, Khushi played a firing cameo of the unbeaten 26 runs off just nine balls (2 fours and 2 sixes). Their batting helped Oman to manage 134/7 (20 overs).
Oman restricted Hong Kong to 122/9
In reply, the left-arm pacer Bilal Khan played a huge role for Oman to snatch a victory in that low-scoring game. Before the completion of the fourth over, half Hong Kong batsmen returned to the pavilion and they managed to put only 18 runs on the board.
Only the wicketkeeper Scott McKechnie (44) and Haroon Arshad (20) reached the 20-run mark in that innings. Hong Kong finally scored 122/9 in 20 overs as Oman won that match by 12 runs.
Bilal Khan bagged four wickets as he had the bowling figures of 4-0-23-4.
In the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Ireland, Netherlands, Namibia and Scotland have already qualified for the first round of next T20 World Cup event
The 16 qualified teams of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020
| Team | Process of qualifying for T20 World Cup 2020 |
| Australia | Hosts – directly qualified for the second round |
| Pakistan | ICC T20I Championship (Rank 1) – directly qualified for the second round |
| India | ICC T20I Championship (Rank 2) – directly qualified for the second round |
| England | ICC T20I Championship (Rank 3) – directly qualified for the second round |
| South Africa | ICC T20I Championship (Rank 5) – directly qualified for the second round |
| New Zealand | ICC T20I Championship (Rank 6) – directly qualified for the second round |
| Windies | ICC T20I Championship (Rank 7) – directly qualified for the second round |
| Afghanistan | ICC T20I Championship (Rank 8) – directly qualified for the second round |
| Sri Lanka | ICC T20I Championship (Rank 9) – directly qualified for the first round |
| Bangladesh | ICC T20I Championship (Rank 10) – directly qualified for the first round |
| Papua New Guinea | ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 – directly qualified for the first round |
| Ireland | ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 – directly qualified for the first round |
| Netherlands | ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 – directly qualified for the first round |
| Namibia | ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 – directly qualified for the first round |
| Scotland | ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 – directly qualified for the first round |
| Oman | ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 – directly qualified for the first round |