The ICC T20 World Cup 2024 group stages is nearly entering the final stages. The competition has already seen some shock results and in several groups a few big teams are in a difficult situation, and they have to break out of the jail if they need to qualify for the Super eight stage. One of them is England who lost their last match against Australia in Group B. What made things difficult for them is the match against Scotland getting washed out due to rain. Scotland have won two games after that by good net run rate and are currently favourites ahead of England to qualify from the group. England will need to win their own games as well look at the Australia vs Scotland match result to go in their faovur, in order to have qualification chances.  England Qualification Scenario: Here’s How Jos Buttler and Co Can Qualify for Super Eight Round of T20 World Cup 2024.

What Josh Hazlewood Said?

In a recent press conference, Australian cricketer Josh Hazlewood said Australia could try and manipulate any margin of victory over Scotland to try and knock England out of the T20 World Cup 2024. "In this tournament you potentially come up against England at some stage again," Hazlewood said after Australia confirmed their Super Eight spot with a clinical win over Namibia.

"They're probably one of the top few teams on their day and we've had some real struggles against them in T20 cricket, so if we can get them out of the tournament that's in our best interest as well as probably everyone else. It'll be interesting to see. We've never really been in this position before as a team, I don't think, so whether we have discussions or not, we'll just try and play it again the way we did tonight. That'll be up to [other] people, not me. " said Hazlewood.

Why Mitchell Marsh Could Be Banned?

Although it might just be a tongue in cheek comment from Hazlewood, doing so will put the Australian captain Mitchell Marsh in trouble. According to ESPNCricinfo, Marsh could be charged under Article 2.11 of the ICC's code of conduct, which is designed to prevent the manipulation of games for "inappropriate strategic or tactical reasons… such as when a team deliberately loses a pool match in an ICC Event in order to affect the standings of other teams in that ICC Event." ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Adam Zampa Achieves Elusive Feat, Becomes First Australian To Take 100 Wickets in T20Is.

Marsh could be charged under Article 2.11 of the ICC's code of conduct, which is designed to prevent the manipulation of games for "inappropriate strategic or tactical reasons… such as when a team deliberately loses a pool match in an ICC Event in order to affect the standings of other teams in that ICC Event." Although it is difficult to account how the Umpires will consider any 'deliberate manipulation' of net run rate, the possibility cannot be ruled out considering the fierce rivalry between the competitors of the Ashes.

 

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