Rain ends Australia’s lame World Cup campaign

Australia’s ICC T20 World Cup is done after the overnight Zimbabwe v Ireland fixture was washed out.

The match in Pallekele, Kandy was eventually abandoned without a ball being bowled which sealed the fate of the underperforming Aussies.

Mitch Marsh's side needed Ireland to do the business over the Zimbabweans to keep their hopes alive but they never got the chance. The two sides split the two points meaning it is curtains for Australia.

Unbeaten Sri Lanka sits atop the Group B table on six points ahead of Zimbabwe on five - both are through to the Super Eights - with Ireland currently holding third position on three points.

The Aussies have one more fixture to play against Oman from 12:30am AEDT on Saturday.

It won't save their blushes but at least they can finish above Ireland. Every cloud...

And wasn't Aussie agitator Piers Morgan enjoying it.

Australia’s lame World Cup campaign has been slammed by greats Mark Waugh and Ian Healy.

Waugh took aim at the Aussie selectors, describing some decisions as “baffling” while suggesting the World Cup campaign was “doomed from the get-go”.

Healy insisted the team that lost to Sri Lanka this week was simply “not good enough” and that the capitulation was an “Australian cricket low point”.

The Australian side will now look to an away bilateral series against Pakistan for three ODIs in June before playing Bangladesh in three ODIs and three T20s.