New Zealand started their World Cup Champaign by huge victory of 89 runs over Defending champions Australia on 22nd October at Sydney Cricket Ground Australia.
New Zealand opening Batter Devon Conway star of the game as he scored Unbeaten 92* Runs.
Winning skipper, Kane Williamson said:
It was one of those days, an outstanding day, the openers set the tone, lots of contributions right through the batting and that was a very good score on this pitch. The bowlers then did well and were well supported in the field. Everyone know their roles in this team, we knew about the quality of their bowling (Australia’s), took the game deep and we were very clinical in what we needed to do.
Losing skipper Aaron Finch said:
They certainly did (on the New Zealand openers), they set the tone in the first 4 overs and we didn’t recover. Needed a big start, that didn’t happen and we were outplayed completely. He got off to a flier (on Finn), we needed early wickets which didn’t happen and when we chased, we lost too many wickets, we weren’t good enough with the net run-rate taking a bad hit. We play Sri Lanka next, four games left, need to win everything and have some luck on our side.
Player of the Match, Devon Conway said:
Special performance by the boys tonight. Credit has to go to Finn, how he started and got the momentum for us, pretty good performance from everyone. It (Finn’s knock) was pretty special, I have seen him do it time and time again, young guy in international cricket but he’s very explosive and fearless. The way Finn plays his game complements my game and I can just bat around him. The surface was very good to bat on and I thought timing the ball would give you more success. It means a lot to us, especially here at the SCG, to beat Australia on any occasion is big, we will take this momentum into the next game.
