Phil Salt Creates History: In the 28th match of the T20 World Cup 2024, England created a stir with both bat and ball against Oman. Due to their strong game against Oman, England registered a one-sided victory by 8 wickets. England won the match in just 3.1 overs. In the match, English team opener Phil Salt has made a big record in his name. He hit two sixes in the match and on the basis of these sixes, Salt achieved a big achievement in T20 International.

Phil Salt made history

Phil Salt hit consecutive sixes on the first two balls of the first over of England's innings against Oman. Bilal Khan was bowling this over for Oman. Phil Salt has become the first batsman to hit consecutive sixes on the first two balls of an innings in T20 International. Before him, no opening batsman of any country has been able to do such a feat.

Phil Salt made a big record but he could not make his innings very big and was bowled on the third ball of the over. Against Oman, Salt was able to score 12 runs in 3 balls with the help of 2 sixes.

Talking about the match, Oman's team came out to bat first against England. However, the entire team collapsed like a pack of cards in front of England's bowlers. Shoaib Khan played the highest innings of 11 runs for Oman. Apart from him, no batsman of the team could even reach the score of double digits. The entire Oman team was reduced to just 47 runs. In the match, Adil Rashid took the highest 4 wickets for England and Jofra Archer and Mark Wood took 3-3 wickets each.

England, chasing a modest target of 48 runs, won the match in just 3.1 overs by losing 2 wickets. England won the match with 101 balls to spare. This was also the biggest win in terms of balls remaining in the T20 World Cup. For England, captain Jos Buttler scored 24 runs in 8 balls with the help of 4 fours and 1 six.