Match No. 13 of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 was played between New Zealand and Australia on 22 October, Saturday in Sydney. New Zealand scored 200 runs in 20 overs losing only 3 wickets. Opener David Conway scored 92 runs in 58 balls. Australia was all out in 17.1 overs scoring only 111 runs. Losing the match by 89 runs
Australia won the toss and elected to field first. New Zealand openers Finn Allen and Devon Conway made sure that Australia regretted the decision to bowl first. Finn Allen exploded during the powerplay and scored 42 runs in 16 balls with 5 fours and 3 sixes. Captain Kane Williamson played a slow inning, given the situation before getting lbw by Adam Zampa. He scored 23 runs in 23 balls. Jimmy Neesham finished the innings with a six taking the total to 200. He made 26 runs in 13 balls with 2 sixes. But the performance of the day was from Devon Conway who dismantled the Australian attack by smashing 92 runs in 58 balls with 7 fours and 2 sixes.
For Australia, all plans against New Zealand went against them. Ace bowlers like Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, and Adam Zampa kept leaking runs throughout the innings. Josh Hazlewood was the highest wicket-taker from Australia taking 2 wickets for 41 runs. Adam Zampa took 1 wicket giving 39 runs with the ball.
Australia came into the innings with the confidence of chasing down the score. But the disciplined fielding of New Zealand prevented them to steal runs. Tim Southee’s first ball of the spell ended David Warner’s innings. Aaron Finch played some big shots before succumbing to spinner Mitchell Santner. He scored 13 runs in 11 balls. Australia kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Glen Maxwell was the highest-scoring player from Australia. He made 28 runs in 20 balls. Pat Cummins scored 21 runs in 18 balls.
New Zealand’s veteran bowler Tim Southee took 3 wickets by giving only 6 runs. Mitchell Santner scalped 3 Australian wickets. Trent Boult took 2 wickets. Lockie Ferguson and Ish Sodhi took 1 wicket each.
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Devon Conway was awarded Player of the match for his match-winning innings.
New Zealand started with a win in the Super 12 match going to the top of the table of Group 1.
