Overseas New Zealand players came out in large numbers at the Sydney Cricket Ground and the Black Caps batsmen were treated to fireworks as they scored 200 for three in their 20 overs when Conway hit a six off the final ball.
Seamer Tim Southee struck early to remove David Warner and took three for six as New Zealand bowlers kept up the pressure to bowl the hosts out for 111 in the 18th over.
It was Australia’s biggest defeat in T20 Internationals and New Zealand’s first win in any format against their neighbors in Australia since their Test victory in Hobart 11 years ago.
Captain Kane Williamson said, “It was an excellent day.” “It was a very good total on that surface and I thought the bowling and fielding were excellent. We know how good this Australian team is but the boys showed a lot of ticker and took their catches. Yeah, it’s a weird old game ”
Finn Allen, one of four variations of New Zealand’s side, which lost to Australia in Dubai by eight wickets in last year’s World Cup final, played a brutal 16-ball 42 for the Group 2 match.
Dropped by Adam Zampa on 19, the 23-year-old opener hit five fours and three sixes before being cleaned up by a Josh Hazlewood yorker.
The pace waned a bit with Williamson at the crease, but he still managed to score a respectable run-a-ball 23, before Jimmy Neesham (26 not out) finished the innings with Conway, who scored 92 off 58 balls. scored runs.
Warner’s unfortunate dismissal for five – Southee’s opening ball came off his pads and bat and went back into his stumps – put Australia on the backfoot.
Mitchell Santner (3-31) took some early punishment, but Southee got his second wicket before covering Australia captain Aaron Finch for 13 when Mitch Marsh was caught in the deep for 16 by Neesham before the end of the powerplay. Got caught.
Marcus Stoinis was dismissed for seven in the ninth over to give Santner his second victim, but the honor for the wicket will go to Glenn Phillips, who raced around the outfield to take a diving catch for the ages.
Glenn Maxwell took some punishment by scoring 28 off 20 balls, but when he was gone, the Aussies were in all sorts of trouble at 89 for seven.
Trent Boult took two wickets to help clear the tail, but the final act of the match proper went to Conway, who took a comfortable behind the wickets after Pat Cummins sent Southee’s final delivery into the night sky. Catch taken.
“He jumped on us in the first four overs and we never really recovered from that,” Finch said.
“We were completely freaked out in all three aspects.”
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