After defeating New Zealand , Australia won its sixth Men's World Cup across all formats, the most of any team.
Australia has now won an ICC Cricket World Cup in the T20 format after winning cup in the ODI format in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2015. West Indies (four) is the team with the most men's World Cup titles, followed by India (three), Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and England (two each).
By eight wickets, Australia (173 for 2; Marsh 77*, Warner 53; Boult 2-18) defeated New Zealand (172 for 4; Williamson 85; Hazlewood 3-16).
As a result of the challenging, two-paced fields used in this competition, it boasts the lowest scoring rate of any T20 World Cup. The final, on the other hand, was as near to pure T20 as anything we've seen in the UAE in recent weeks. The quickest fifty in a T20 World Cup final was set and quickly broken, and if Kane Williamson was on the losing side and Mitchell Marsh was among the winners, the difference was what transpired around them.
Williamson hit 85 off 48 balls, and the rest of New Zealand's hitters combined for 78 off 73.
When the competition began, Australia wasn't considered one of the favourites, but take another look at that lineup. You can't have Warner, Aaron Finch, Marsh, Maxwell, and Marcus Stoinis as hitters and not be a serious T20 squad for very long. The bowlers contributed, too, particularly Josh Hazlewood, whose into-the-pitch legcutters helped him reach 4-0-16-3 in a match with a combined run rate of nearly 8.9, but this was essentially a triumph of T20's most important skill: boundary hitting.
About Australian team
On the eve of the match, Australia skipper Aaron Finch sees Sunday's final against New Zealand as a golden opportunity to right a wrong by leading his team to their first Twenty20 World Cup triumph.
Mitchell Marsh is the Player of the Match in the final against New Zealand. he scores 77 off 50 balls. It was his sixth half-century in T20I, all of which occurred in 2021.
Australia won the event with a total of 173/2, the highest total in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup's seven finals. That was in response to New Zealand's first-innings tally of 172/4. The previous highest score in a final was 161/6, set by West Indies in a memorable chase against England in Kolkata in 2016. Carlos Brathwaite's four sixes contributed 24 runs in the final over.
New Zealand has suffered with another setback.
New Zealand is the only side to have competed in all 19 men's World Cups (twelve ODIs and seven T20s) without winning any. It was their third time in a row that they lost after reaching the final. In the ODI format, they had had lost two World Cup Finals, to Australia in 2015 and England in 2021.
David Warner, Australia's opener, was named Player of the Tournament after scoring 289 runs at an average of 48.16 and a strike rate of 146.70.It is the most runs scored by an Australian in a single edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, breaking Matthew Hayden's 2007 record of 265 runs.
About Tournament
The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was the seventh edition of the competition, which took place from October 17 to November 14, 2021 in the United Arab Emirates and Oman. The West Indies were the defending champions, however they were knocked out in the Super 12 stage.
The event was originally planned to take place in Australia from October 18 to November 15, 2020, but the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced in July 2020 that it had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ICC announced in August 2020 that India would host the 2021 tournament as scheduled, with Australia taking over for the 2022 event. The ICC stated in June 2021 that the event would be shifted to the United Arab Emirates due to rising concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic scenario in India, as well as the possibility of a third wave of the pandemic in the country. The event began on October 17, 2021, and concluded on October 17, 2021.
After defeating England by five wickets in the semi-finals, New Zealand became the first side to reach the final. It was New Zealand's first time qualifying for a T20 World Cup final. Australia, who beat Pakistan by five wickets in the second semi-final, joined them in the final. After reaching the final of the 2010 tournament, Australia qualified for the final of the T20 World Cup for the second time. Australia won the T20 World Cup for the first time by defeating New Zealand by eight wickets in the final. Mitchell Marsh received Player of the Match honours, while David Warner received Player of the Tournament honours.
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