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“It was a nice start,” player of the match Stoinis said afterwards. “Maybe a few cobwebs for us, but we’re better for it, and nice that we got the win. And nice that I got to spend some time in the middle and have a bit of a bowl.” 

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Stoinis hammered six sixes and two fours during a swashbuckling batting performance. David Warner (56 off 51 balls) helped provide some stability with a half-century as Australia eventually got going after captain Mitchell Marsh and Glenn Maxwell fell off successive balls to seamer Mehran Khan in the 11th over.

Brief scores
Australia 164-5 (M Stoinis 67', D Warner 56; M Khan 2-38) beat Oman 125-9 (A Khan 36; M Stoinis 3-19, M Starc 2-20, A Zampa 2-24, N Ellis 2-28) by 39 runs

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