Australia beat Scotland in a thrilling final over victory in St Lucia, sending England into the T20 World Cup Super Eights.
England beat Namibia in a rain-affected match in Antigua on Saturday to stay in the second round, but already-qualified neighbours Australia will need to beat Scotland on Sunday to progress.
Scotland benefited from six dropped balls in the Australian innings to post 180-5. Brandon McMullen scored 60 off 34 balls, including six sixes, and captain Richie Berrington scored 42 off 31 balls.
Australia then trailed 2-1 and 60-3 with easy runs from David Warner (1), Mitchell Marsh (8) and Glenn Maxwell (11) but Tim David (24 not hit, 14) scored a six off Brad Weale to seal a five-wicket victory with two balls to spare.
Travis Head (68 off 49 balls) and Marcus Stoinis (59 off 29 balls) put on 80 runs off 44 balls for the fifth wicket but fell in the 16th and 17th overs respectively. Head was dismissed with three sixes off pace bowler Suffian Sharif (2-42) while Stoinis was dismissed with successive fours off spin bowler Mark Watt (2-34).
With Australia needing 26 with three overs remaining, David smashed two fours off Weale in the 18th over and then smashed the same bowler over the ropes at deep midwicket late in the 20th over to break Scotland’s hearts and keep defending champions England in the tournament.
Scotland will host Australia in Edinburgh in September for a three-match T20 international series and while they will be disappointed to lose, they will be proud of their performance throughout the match.
Berrington’s team reached 90-0 after 10 overs against England before the match was abandoned, before going on to comfortable wins over Namibia and Oman and record the highest T20I score by a junior team against Australia.
England will be in Group 2 of the Super 8s along with co-hosts the West Indies, the United States and South Africa, while Australia will compete in Group 1 along with either India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh or the Netherlands.
Bangladesh will book the spot with a win against Nepal in their final first-round match in St Vincent and the Grenadines on Monday, while a loss would see the Netherlands remain in the running. However, the Netherlands will need to overturn a huge net run-rate deficit by beating Sri Lanka in St Lucia on the same day to progress from Group D along with South Africa.
Every match of the T20 World Cup will be shown live on Sky Sports, including the final in Barbados on Saturday 29 June.
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