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Australia won their first ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday. The eight-wicket victory was fashioned so emphatically that New Zealand didn’t even have a sniff of a chance in the final. David Warner’s 38-ball 53 and Mitchell Marsh’s unbeaten 77 in 50 balls helped Australia chase down New Zealand’s total of 172 with 1.1 overs to spare.
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00:00Hello and welcome to Golf News Straight Bat. We already knew that we'd have a new name on the T20
00:06World Cup. It was either going to be New Zealand or Australia since neither of them had won it
00:11and the victors tonight were the Aussies so well done to them.
00:15New Zealand had posted a 172 for 4 which was the most runs any side has made in a T20 final
00:31which was quite impressive but the Australians chased it down quite easily. I'm joined today
00:36as usual by Mr Cricket, UAE, Anish Sajjan and Golf News expert Satish to discuss the match
00:42and the tournament overall. First of all Anish, please sum up tonight's game.
00:47Thank you Imran. Hi Satish. Yes, big final New Zealand versus Australia and we definitely were
00:55going to have a new champion but the way Australia played this final it was clinical. It reminded
01:01about the Australian team when they used to play the 50-over tournaments where they kept on winning
01:05for fun and today was one such tournament that they were clinical with the ball even though
01:11New Zealand managed 172 but with the bat the moment Mitchell Marsh and David Warner started
01:18they never looked back and the match was over in the 19th over. So you have to say a one-sided
01:23affair. Of course the toss did make a difference but having said that after they won the semi-finals
01:28against Pakistan it was difficult to stop this Australian team. Anish, Australia had lost five
01:33series in a row coming into the T20 World Cup. They were beaten very badly by Bangladesh I think
01:40by 62 runs before the tournament and they looked woefully out of form.
01:46They didn't look very good at all but they're the new T20 World Champions. How do you explain that?
01:54Who's this for Imran? Go ahead. Okay, you're right to be very honest when the tournament
02:01started Imran, nobody had given both Australia and New Zealand any chance but New Zealand has
02:06this knack of making it to the semi-finals and finals of every ICC tournament but Australia I
02:11remember talking to Watson Daly and the first preview which I did with him he said Australia
02:16absolutely has no chance but as the tournament progressed they won their first two matches
02:22against South Africa and West Indies if I'm not wrong Sri Lanka but then they were hammered by
02:28England in one of the games in England where they lost the toss but after that you know one important
02:34game against Sri Lanka there was an innings which Warner played after he was dropped for naught
02:40so that probably changed the momentum in Australia's favor and mind you Finch has not lost a
02:46single toss after that he's won all the tosses so without taking anything away from Australia
02:51this T20 game is very unpredictable it's about team picking at the right time and of course captain
02:57winning the right tosses. Satish, speaking of Finch there he's been outstanding as captain he hasn't
03:03had a very good tournament himself but what he's done is he's managed to bring the team together
03:07how impressed have you been with his leadership Satish?
03:11Pretty good Imran it's not about Finch before the start of the tournament even
03:16Lanka's position was in danger so almost all the members of the team they were in danger
03:21of losing their spots to the younger team and there was a lot of hue and cry before
03:28the event started so it was all happening at that point of time but this Australian team
03:36that's what I said Anisbhai said they picked at the right time when you know again it's again the Aussie
03:41quality which I would say came up to the fore because they don't give up easily they work
03:47hard they do things and of course it also the captain is as good as a team so the team
03:55everybody they gelled well if you look at each match there was somebody else who was putting
04:00their hands up and performing and even before the start of the tournament if you noticed when
04:06we were all talking about Warner's form Maxwell said write off Warner at your own peril
04:12then the same way Maxwell also said that Mitch Marsh is going to make a big difference at the
04:16start of the tournament and even I was there in the press conference when Warner was talking about
04:20Mitch Marsh quite high on the day when they beat West Indies and they were almost waiting for South
04:25Africa's result that that was the last group game so Warner was talking very highly about
04:31Mitch Marsh so these were you know like proof that each one is supporting each other
04:37and it's the team as well as captain and the coach everybody they were all gelling well
04:42and it's a good pretty pretty good team effort. Anis we saw a theme in this World Cup where
04:48the chasing team more often than not would end up winning tonight Australia they won the toss
04:54they decided to chase and surprise surprise they won. Anis you know when the toss was done
05:02did you expect this result I mean did you think anything different would happen?
05:07Well let me be very honest tosses has definitely helped the team chasing but when 170 runs 72
05:12runs were put I probably felt it would be a much closer match than what actually turned out to be
05:18but yes you're right most of the times once the captain has won the toss you write off the other
05:23team I mean if you see the results in this tournament I believe bearing the minnows who
05:28have won the toss and chased have lost I only remember one team losing that is Bangladesh
05:35who couldn't chase against West Indies rest all the results of the big teams they won the toss
05:42and they have chased so you have to accept the fact that tosses did make a difference we can't
05:48take anything away from Australia you never know what would have happened had Australia won the
05:52toss or lost the toss but at the moment the fact remains tosses played a crucial role in the teams
05:58winning the matches. Yeah that's true Satish we knew that New Zealand were going to be missing
06:04a key player Conway he he broke his hand while punching the bat out of anger when he got out
06:10against England so he missed today's final Kane Williamson done great he got 85 as we know but it
06:15just felt like New Zealand needed at least 20 or 30 more runs you know just to help them defend
06:22you think had he been playing they may have had a different outcome? No I don't think so because
06:30this is one area which New Zealand had to work on because they were far too reliant on one or
06:37two players yes in the semi-finals Jimmy Nation came and hit some break knocks but that can be
06:43one-off scenario they don't have the depth in their batting they were only about two or three
06:48players who are good they needed that backhand some good all-rounders who could be consistent
06:54number one number two even the same thing with their bowling they were far too reliant on
06:58Bolt and Tim Southey whereas Southey was a yes and no kind of a bowler who was clicking some
07:06matches and today he was completely off colour I think that that's because of the occasion as well
07:12so I think the New Zealand tanks just imagine they came to 173 because Watson was dropped
07:20quite early in his probably when he was around 30 or 40 or something like that so had they taken
07:27that catch maybe New Zealand would have scored a much lesser run that is one aspect again coming
07:33back to the toss I was watching it and how difficult it was to bat early on whereas the
07:39sound of the bat was not the middle it was not coming off the middle but as the game progressed
07:45maybe by the 10th over the batter started hitting in the middle and that's when you saw
07:52Williamson scoring runs where he was hitting some sixes he was playing some good knocks
07:57then that's where they picked up the momentum otherwise it was pretty pretty difficult to
08:01start on but the toss proved a crucial factor but that's only one aspect of it the second aspect is
08:09certainly New Zealand needed more than Conway they needed at least two or three good other
08:14batters who could be for the future I'm talking about yeah and if Hazlewood and Co
08:22they were run song again tonight how good were they at restricting New Zealand's total
08:27well it's a very funny game you know the other day Hazlewood went for plenty against Pakistan
08:32and today it was Mitchell Stark went for 60 in his four which is very unusual of what Mitchell
08:37Stark is so this game is about on that particular day how you bowl or how matters go after you
08:44and you have to give credit to the Australian all the other bowlers bowled well here the fifth
08:48bowler combination of Mitchell Marsh as well as Glenn Maxwell also went for 39 runs but rest all
08:54Pat Cummins you talk about Hazlewood you talk about Zampa they were all bowling well and 172
09:01I would anytime take it in a final I mean it's a big final but like Satish mentioned batting first
09:07is a bit difficult I only think which I felt that New Zealand missed a trick that after the loss of
09:14Guptill it wouldn't have been no harm in sending Nisham they send him too late Phillips was not
09:20the player probably to take the Aussies on but now it's we can all make this assumption sitting
09:26on the armchair it's when you are on the field there's a different thing yeah that's very true
09:31and it's my sorry sorry uh Imran even before you could ask me this question I have to uh this this
09:37wicket I think it was not a wicket to bowl quick it was a double pace wicket where uh bowlers like
09:43uh Hazlewood or uh Bolt they were able to uh keep the batsman quiet because they were using the
09:50variation pace variation to the best effect I think Stark that's where he made the mistake he
09:55was bowling quite flat out today number one and number two this is not a wicket to bowl the ball
10:00sort of like it was the ball pitched up by and large were not hit too hard especially the medium
10:06paces yes the spinners were hit very badly when they were pitched up but for the pacers uh yes
10:12you could you could get away by pitching the ball up my by and large no guys in this tournament
10:18there's one thing which I've noticed is uh we've seen we've seen more drop catches in this tournament
10:24than than ever before tonight there was at least two I think Guptill was dropped and Williamson
10:28they were both dropped is there any reason for this and is why we've seen so many drop catches
10:32in the outfield I would put it simple that uh you you were not taking the catches where a lot of
10:37people say the lights are not good but there have been some outstanding catches taken so it's about
10:42how you feel or how you practice and take the catches I'm afraid the other day Hasan Ali dropped
10:46a catch which probably would have taken Australia or would have taken Pakistan into the finals and
10:53that's why they say catches win matches and the teams which dropped catches have paid the price
11:00yeah and it's staying with you 32-1 was New Zealand's lowest power play score of the
11:06tournament they just didn't see much intent from them early on but when Australia came in you could
11:11see they really went for it do you think New Zealand were guilty of playing a bit too conservatively
11:17early on you can say that Imran but like Satish also mentioned it was not easy to go after the
11:24bowling they did get three overs 24 runs or 23 till they lost Daryl Mitchell but I'm afraid
11:31Guptill played a very weird sort of inning he's known generally to attack but his innings of
11:36runner ball in the power play is not accepted and all the pressure was on Williamson as Satish
11:41mentioned had he got out earlier you would never know they would have been folded for 150 but he
11:45played in innings full of class in spite of not being in the best of form and to score that 85 or
11:5051 balls gives you know all the shows that what sort of a player he is he's not the glamour boy
11:56as I always say like the Virat Kohli but he comes up when uh where New Zealand requires but in the
12:02end probably New Zealand by 20-30 runs short even 200 I'm not sure whether that could have been
12:07defended Satish how good was Williamson's knock he got 85 from just 48 balls I'm impressed
12:14it was extremely extremely that's that shows his tenacity more than anything he was struggling
12:20initially he was not getting his timing I could see sitting in the stand I could I could hear
12:25that the ball hitting the bottom of the bat or it was not hitting the sweet spot for both Guptill
12:30and Williamson that could be I think they were also talking about knowing the pace they were
12:34showing signs like this so I I assumed that the ball was not coming onto the bat as well as they
12:39would have expected so coming from there and then like going all the way almost till the
12:45maybe two hours before the end he got out so that shows his tenacity and the grit that the man is
12:51made of brilliant knock brilliant knock under the circumstances because he knows that if he goes out
12:57early the team will collapse so he has that he has to carry that as well as co-runs as well as
13:03protect his wicket that was a pretty good tough task for him and he did it very well
13:09Anish, New Zealand were quite poor with the ball tonight only Bolt did well he got the two wickets
13:15why did they struggle with the ball was it the dew factor absolutely no there was not much due
13:20to be very honest I was at the ground I did not see any due it was the same as it was in the
13:24Pakistan game the only mistake what they were doing is pitching it too short and Australians
13:29loved the ball when they bowled short they were going on the back foot and pulling this ball
13:34towards the mid wicket or the fine leg so the mistake what most of the New Zealand bowlers did
13:41was they were not pitching it up or bowling the good length ball only Bolt bowled in the right
13:45area and that's why he was successful rest all bowlers failed and yes there was no help to the
13:50spinners you have to give it to that that the ball did not turn much. Okay guys well done to the to
13:57the Aussies let's have a little recap of the tournament as a whole it's been four weeks of
14:02really entertaining cricket there's been some fantastic bowling some great batting and some
14:07great catching when it's actually stuck in the hands. Anish what's been your favorite moment
14:12from the tournament and Satish this gives you some time to think about yours. You know what
14:17to be very honest the two teams which came into the tournament as favorites were India and England
14:23and the first match which India played against Pakistan not even in my wildest dream I thought
14:29that Pakistan would win and win by 10 wickets so that even though I carry my heart on my sleeve
14:37as an Indian that I wanted India to win but I'm very proud of the way Pakistan played that match
14:42and outbatted and the two deliveries of Shahenshah Afridi will always be the most important defining
14:48moment which set the platform and if I have to say one team which were unlucky not to win this
14:54tournament was Pakistan because they played throughout the tournament terrific tournament
14:59matches that won I would not say bad they probably won bad miss in the outfield cost
15:06them the tournament. Satish favorite moment for you? South Africa because they came in with absolutely
15:15no expectations they were not even talked about and the way they beat England one of the favorites
15:21for the tournament and they showed that grit in Sharjah and though yeah they lost out on the
15:27run rate to Australia just imagine had they come in maybe they would have they would have won it
15:31but I would say the South Africa England game the way South Africa batted and they had to score big
15:38because they had to have a 60-run cushion to win so they scored some 190 or something like that
15:45that that was a big game for me because I did not expect that's a South African team that's
15:49rebuilding they dropped Faf to Plessy they dropped Imran Tahir they dropped some of the best players
15:54they didn't even consider AB de Villiers and let him go so if you do all that and come back and
16:00show this I would say that's that's pretty pretty good for me in this tournament yeah that's a good
16:06one for me it was Joss Butler's unbeaten 101 of 67 balls I thought that was quite good but another
16:12team that really impressed I think everybody was Sri Lanka okay they were knocked out of the
16:16group stages but they've got a very youthful team and they caught the eye and they're being talked
16:21about now as potential champions for the for the World Cup in Australia next year do you think
16:26they can do it Satish? Australia has a different kettle of fish or different ball game there
16:32because you need places there whether the Sri Lankans I think that they are a little short
16:37on that front they are they have good spinners they have good batters who can play in these
16:42conditions so I'll have to see they're they're good Sri Lanka has actually impressed me I saw a
16:48couple of games and one in the Sri Lanka he has done well the batter Perera Rajapaksa
16:58all have done well but it remains to be seen how they do in Australian conditions which is
17:03entirely different that's a good point and it's a final word on India they were the pre-tournament
17:09favourites but they had a disappointing campaign now they've got Dravid back as coach do you think
17:15he's going to be able to change the team's fortunes? No I would be lying if I say that you bring in
17:21Dravid and the fortunes will change immediately you have to accept the fact that they were in a
17:25group where there were three good teams and if the two teams win their matches against that opponent
17:31then it is difficult to do the catch-up and the other teams Afghanistan, Namibia and Scotland
17:36were easy to get through and I wouldn't say they were unlucky they did not play two good games
17:42and that caused them to be probably reaching the knockouts but let's accept it this 320 format is
17:47very unpredictable like we saw we thought it's going to be England, India and then finally we
17:54saw Australia taking the cup and winning it so clinically in the end so it's at that time how
18:00you peak so now the next tournament is going to happen in Australia, Australia definitely will
18:04go into that tournament as favourites being the host but who knows which team you might come as
18:09as champions in that tournament. I would like to add one aspect unfortunately it's wrong or
18:16the irony is when Dravid left his captaincy in 2007 that's probably the worst performance of
18:23the Indian team in the world cup and he is coming back to the Indian team fold again nothing to do
18:29nothing to undermine Dravid sorry don't get me wrong but the strange coincidence I'm talking
18:33about he's coming back into the team as a coach now and probably this is the worst performance in
18:38the last 15 years of the Indian team it's such an irony it is. Anish we were talking before we started
18:46that we've had the IPL whole season of that and then we've been straight into the world cup
18:50I think we're looking forward to a bit of a break from cricket is that true?
18:54Very much Imran I'm sure all of us need a break along with the cricketers I guess it's getting
19:01it to you because last three months plus the England India series and cricket has been non-stop
19:08we all love our sport but there is a time that you need a break your body needs a break we are
19:12not machine mentally we need to switch off and I'm glad finally the tournament is over and we
19:19hope that we get a good month's break before the ashes start it's a big tournament
19:24starting in December but enough of time for us to take break.
19:28All right guys we'll leave it there that's all for us for tonight I hope that you've enjoyed the show
19:33if you want the latest news reviews videos head to gulfnews.com thank you to my guests as ever
19:39and congratulations once more to Australia for winning the T20 World Cup thank you and good night.
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