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T20 World Cup Final | Twitter reacts to one-sided hammering of Kiwis as Australia lift first World Cup

The Australian cricket team led by Aaron Finch etched their names in the echelons of cricket winning their maiden T20 World Cup.  

The Aussies dominated their trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand thoroughly on Sunday night, 14 November to establish themselves as the best side in the tournament. They won the game by a margin of 8 wickets and 7 balls remaining.

While David Warner and Mitchell Marsh were the shining stars for Australia in the batting department, Josh Hazlewood and Adam Zampa kept the NZ batting order under tremendous pressure whenever they looked to cut loose. Earlier in the innings, Kane Williamson played a captain's knock to rescue New Zealand out of trouble after they got stuck in the opening overs of the game. He scored an emphatic 85 runs off just 48 balls, which allowed NZ to get up to 172 runs in 20 overs, a fairly decent total in the context of the tournament. However, that wasn't going to be enough and Australia ravaged the Kiwi bowling attack and put away whatever they could possibly throw at them. 

Twitter celebrated the Australian victory in the most joyous of manners and held them in the highest of regards for the effort that they put in to turn their fortunes around.







Mitchell Marsh was the story of the night, having turned his form around. Forever a kid who never quite fulfilled his potential, Marsh turned his career around to become the most important factor of Australia's maiden T20 World Cup journey, a title that has eluded them for many many years. Marsh played an incredible knock of 77 runs off just 50 balls hitting 6 fours and 4 sixes.    


The Australian quick, hero of the 2015 ODI World Cup final did not have a good night in Dubai and leaked out a lot of runs in the first innings of the game. Bowling the most expensive spell in the T20 World Cup final, Starc was not spared from the harsh takes on social media.




David Warner turned out to be the man of the tournament, scoring 289 runs from 7 matches. He scored two crucial 50s in the semi final and final games and turned the Australian fortunes around in the shortest format of the game.


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Starc, Cummins heap praise on Josh Hazlewood, Adam Zampa for successful T20 World Cup campaign

Australia were not the favourite to win the T20 World Cup and a lot of that can be contributed to their performances in the format in the recent past and Mitchell Starc was not dismissive of their past. Starc said that the current level of performance is the closes they always aspired to produce and credited the win to players’ bonding. “It's not been an ideal lead up. But this is the closest the guys were and it has shown in the way we played our cricket. Different guys in different games and the closeness with the guys has taken us through,” Starc said. He was also highly appreciative of the leg spinner Adam Zampa, who has been one of the most crucial elements of Australia’s success in the tournament. “Zampa has been the best bowler by far in the white ball over the last two years. We know how to bowl around him. The bowling group just know our roles a lot clearer,” Starc added. Starc’s partner Pat Cummins, who was at his best with the ball in the final was ridging o high emotions and could not sink the historic moment. He also credited his IPL performance and the third pacer in the Australian team—Josh Hazlewood for their dream run to the championship. “Pretty pumped. Once we go back home it will sink in. A lot of support back home, they've gotten up at 1 am. It's a good thing to play some IPL here. Even Hazlewood was able to adapt quickly because of that,” Cummins said.