T20 World Cup 2022: In the T20 World Cup, New Zealand beat Australia by 89 runs in a bang. Devon Conway showed a wonderful game for New Zealand. After this Tim Southee did not give the Australian batsmen a chance to survive with dangerous bowling.
Devon Conway did wonders
Devon Conway's 92 not out in 58 balls helped New Zealand post a challenging 200 for three against defending champions Australia in the opening match of the T20 World Cup here on Saturday. When invited to bat, Conway and Finn Allen (42 off 16 balls) gave New Zealand an aggressive start, adding 56 runs in 25 balls.
New Zealand set a target of 201 runs
New Zealand set a target of 201 runs to win Australia, which the Australian team could not achieve and lost the match by 89 runs. For New Zealand, a partnership of 69 runs with captain Kane Williamson (23 runs) was made. Glenn Phillips (12 runs) and James Neesham (26 not out) also made useful contributions.
Batsmen could not show amazing
None of the batsmen could show a wonderful game from Australia. Opener David Warner could only score 5 runs. At the same time, captain Aaron Finch contributed 13 runs. Glenn Maxwell scored the most runs for Australia. He played an innings of 28 runs. Apart from him, the rest of the batsmen could not even stay on the crease to score runs. Josh Hazlewood took two wickets for Australia. Whereas the Australia team won the T20 World Cup title in the year 2021.