# Oman (250/7 in 50 ovs.) beat Papua New Guinea (PNG) (140 all out in 42.2 ovs) in the 44th ODI match of the ongoing International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup League-2 yesterday (26) at Al Amerat, Oman. Oman’s Zeeshan Maqsood made 26 off 38 with the bat before taking 4/28 with the ball.
# Oman dominate the League by winning 12 out of 15 games so far. Oman will host Sri Lanka in two practice matches before the start of next month’s T20 World Cup. Also featuring in the ICC League-2 are (in order of the current point table): U.S.A., Scotland, Nepal, Namibia, U.A.E., and PNG. Sri Lanka are to meet both Scotland and Namibia in the World Cup qualifiers next month.
India Women beat the Aus
# Jhulan Goswami took 3/37 as India Women (266/8 in 49.3 ovs.) beat Australia Women (264/9 in 50 ovs.) by two wickets in their third ODI held in Queensland, Australia yesterday (26). Yet Aus Women won the three-match series 2-1. They will play a one-off Test from Thursday (30) at Carrara before a three-match Women’s T20I series that starts on 7 October.
# New Zealand Women (100/6 in 24 overs) needed a daunting 248 runs in 26 over with only four wickets intact as they chased England Women’s 347/5 in their fifth ODI at Canterbury when we went to press last night. Hosts are, though, lead the series 3-1. That is after clinching the three-match T20I series 2-1.