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Oman Home 2026-27 Fixtures: Al Amerat & Muscat Decoded

Rohan Bhatia 19 May 2026 Updated 19 May 2026 ~5 min read ~839 words

Oman cricket 2026-27 home fixtures decoded

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Oman Cricket has confirmed 12 home fixtures across the 2026-27 window, with the Al Amerat Cricket Ground in Muscat carrying every single match. This is the busiest Oman home calendar in the country's ICC history and includes a four-match WCL2 leg against UAE, a three-match T20I series against Scotland, and a Bangladesh A multi-format tour as the December headline. With Aqib Ilyas's side currently sixth on the WCL2 table, this window is the closest Oman has come to an automatic WC 2027 berth. This decode walks through every match by ground rotation, broadcast partner and the WCL2 pathway maths.

Al Amerat the only senior venue

The Al Amerat Cricket Ground, the only ICC-accredited venue in Oman, carries the full 12-fixture load. Oman Cricket uses a three-pitch rotation across Grounds 1 and 2, with Ground 1 reserved for ODIs and Test-status fixtures and Ground 2 for the T20I block. The WCL2 leg against UAE (March 2-3 and 5-6, 2027) is the marquee block. The four-day window is built around the cooler February-March temperatures and is followed by a two-week reset before the Scotland T20I series. Head curator Hamood Al-Rabaani has confirmed the harder, faster surfaces for the WCL2 leg, targeting first-innings totals of 250-270 in ODIs. Capacity at Al Amerat sits at 4,800, with a pop-up east stand taking the WCL2 weekend to 6,200.

WCL2 dovetail and pathway maths

The four-match UAE WCL2 series is the points centrepiece. Oman goes into the leg currently sixth on the table, needing 5 wins from 8 remaining fixtures to keep the WC 2027 automatic-qualifier maths alive. Captain Aqib Ilyas, opener Kashyap Prajapati and quick Bilal Khan are pencilled in for every WCL2 game, with allrounder Mohammad Nadeem and spinner Aamir Kaleem sharing the second spinner rotation. Head coach Sunil Joshi has built the eight-week home block around a peak-and-rotate model, peaking the first-choice attack for the WCL2 fixtures and protecting them through the Scotland T20I leg and the Bangladesh A tour. The pathway maths is tight but live.

Bangladesh A tour as the December headliner

The Bangladesh A multi-format tour, December 2-22, is the prestige fixture of the calendar. It includes two four-day matches (December 2-5, 8-11), a three-match List A series (December 14, 16, 18) and a two-T20I block (December 20, 22). The tour is the first multi-format BCB A-team visit to Oman and signals a deeper Asia-region pathway engagement. Bangladesh A is expected to be led by Mahmudul Hasan Joy, with the squad including emerging Test prospects. Oman Cricket has framed it as a Test-status warm-up, the closest equivalent of red-ball cricket the country has hosted. Broadcast partner Sony Pictures has confirmed coverage across India, with FanCode picking up the streaming rights for the four-day fixtures.

Broadcast routing and travel

Broadcast routes are FanCode for India, Sony Sports for the Bangladesh A leg, ICC's pathway feed in 70-plus markets for the WCL2 fixtures, and a regional package with Asian Cricket Broadcaster for the wider Middle East. Inside Oman, the OMSports streaming app picks up all 12 fixtures with Arabic and English commentary. Travel logistics favour Oman: every visiting side flies into Muscat International, which is a single 25-minute drive to Al Amerat. The compressed footprint allows full media-day operations on every match day and a fresh-pitch handover for each successive fixture. The eight-camera production minimum is in place for all WCL2 fixtures, with a 10-camera plus drone rig added for the Bangladesh A four-day matches.

What it means

Oman Cricket has built the 2026-27 calendar with a single venue, a single city and one objective: stay in WC 2027 automatic-qualifier contention. The UAE WCL2 leg is the points play, the Bangladesh A tour is the prestige build, and the Scotland T20I series is the bridge. Watch the WCL2 maths after the March block, plus how Bilal Khan and Aqib Ilyas hold up across an eight-week peak workload. That is the operational risk that decides whether the calendar lands as planned.