A very important match was played between Australia and Scotland on Sunday 16 June in the T20 World Cup. England's fate was at stake in this match held in St. Lucia, because Australia's qualification for the Super-8 depended on Australia's victory. The Super-8 round will start from 19 June, before that, Australia's team suffered a major taint in its last group stage match. The team's performance surprised everyone. The Australian team dropped 6 catches during fielding.

Australia made a shameful record

Australia captain Mitchell Marsh won the toss and decided to field first. During this, the players dropped such catches that everyone was surprised. Even the commentators could not believe the dropped catches. Recently, Australia's fast bowler Josh Hazlewood had said that his team can think about losing to Scotland to eliminate England. In such a situation, seeing the team players dropping catches, the fans started suspecting that they are deliberately dropping catches. During fielding, Australia made a shameful record by dropping a total of 6 catches. Now Australia has become the team dropping the most catches in a match of the T20 World Cup.

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Scotland's batsmen capitalised on the opportunity and put 180 runs on the board. Brendon McMullan played a blistering innings and scored 60 runs in 34 balls. Captain Richie Berrington scored 42 runs in 31 balls.

Stoinis saved the match

After batting, Scotland also bowled well. They took 3 wickets of Australia for 60 runs and also kept a check on the runs. Australia's team could score only 92 runs in 13 overs, which means the team had to score 89 runs in 7 overs at an economy of about 13. After this, Travis Head gave momentum to the team by hitting 3 consecutive sixes in the 14th over but he got out. After this Marcus Stoinis took charge and took Australia to victory with a stormy innings of 59 runs in 29 balls. He was selected Player of the Match for his brilliant innings.