The Super Eight phase of the 2024 T20 World Cup will resume on Friday morning with Australia taking on Bangladesh at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua and Barbuda. Australia came through the group stage of the competition with a perfect record and won Group B, while Bangladesh defied the odds to edge Sri Lanka to a qualification spot in Group D. © Reuters Australia's dream of becoming the first side in history to hold the title in all three formats of the game simultaneously is still alive, as they emerged from the group stages as one of only three teams to have played and won all four of their scheduled fixtures.
Given the dominant fashion that they dispatched the associate nations and at no point looked likely to lose to England, there is a case to be made that they were the pick of the teams in the first round, which has also seen them shorten in price significantly, closing the gap to current tournament favourites India. However, Mitchell Marsh 's side are now set to encounter a very tricky situation, having been drawn into Group A, which is made up of three Asian teams, India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, which suggests that they are likely to face a trial by spin over this phase of the competition. Notably, Marsh seems to have already taken this into consideration, as we saw him alter his bowling plans in their last group-stage match against Scotland, where he played all three of his spinners and allowed them their full four-over quotas, while Pat Cummins and J.