Australia Eliminated In The Knockout Stage Six Times: The group stage matches of the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 are about to end and now the Super 8 matches will begin. In this tournament, the important group stage match played between Ireland and Zimbabwe was canceled due to rain. With this, both the teams got one point each, due to which Australia was out of the ‘Super-8’. Instead of Australia from Group B, Zimbabwe has qualified for the next round. In such a situation, let us know when Australia has been out of the knockouts of the T20 World Cup in this manner.
Australia was out of T20 World Cup knockout 6 times
1. T20 World Cup 2009
Australia was eliminated for the first time before the knockout stage of the 2009 T20 World Cup. The Australian team could not register a single win in this World Cup. Australia lost by 7 wickets against West Indies in the first match, while in the next match against Sri Lanka by 6 wickets, due to which the Kangaroo team was out of the tournament even before the knockout stage.
2. T20 World Cup 2014
In the T20 World Cup 2014, Australia was eliminated before the knockout stage for the second time. In this tournament, the Australian team played 4 matches in Group-2, in which it won only one match. After losing the match to Pakistan by 16 runs, Australia lost the next match against West Indies by 6 wickets. After this, India defeated them by 73 runs. Even though Australia defeated Bangladesh by 7 wickets in the last group match, it could not make it to the playoffs.
3. T20 World Cup 2016
The Australian team was eliminated before the 2016 T20 World Cup knockout stage for the third time. After losing the match by 8 runs to New Zealand in Group-2 of this tournament, Australia defeated Bangladesh and Pakistan by 3 wickets and 21 runs respectively, but India showed Australia the way out of the playoffs by defeating them by 6 wickets.
4. T20 World Cup 2022
In the T20 World Cup 2022, Australia was eliminated before the knockout stage for the fourth time. In this T20 World Cup, Australia defeated New Zealand (89 runs), Sri Lanka (7 wickets), Ireland (42 runs) and Afghanistan (4 runs), but the match against England was canceled due to rain and the Kangaroo team could not reach the playoffs due to poor net run rate (NRR).
5. T20 World Cup 2024
The same situation happened to Australia in the 2024 T20 World Cup, but this time it did not happen before the knockout. In this tournament, Australia won all its four matches of Group B. The Australian team made it to the Super 8 by defeating Oman (39 runs), England (36 runs), Namibia (9 wickets) and Scotland by 5 wickets. After this, in the Super-8, the Kangaroo team won against Bangladesh by 28 runs on the basis of Duckworth-Lewis rule, but in the very next match, Afghanistan made a big upset and defeated Australia by 21 runs. In their last match of Super-8, India defeated Australia by 24 runs and snatched away their chance of getting a semi-final ticket.
6. T20 World Cup 2026
Australia has been eliminated before the knockout stage for the fifth time in the T20 World Cup 2026. The Australian team, included in the group of this tournament, could not reach the Super 8 due to the defeat first by Zimbabwe and then by Sri Lanka in the group stage. However, Australia still has one more match against Ireland, winning which the Australian team would like to take a respectable farewell from the tournament.
