Final (N), Dubai (DSC), Nov 14 2021, ICC Men's T20 World Cup
Cricket Highlights & Scorecard This has been a tournament of tricky, two-paced pitches, and, as a consequence, it has recorded the lowest scoring rate of any T20 World Cup. The final, however, came as close to pure T20 as anything we have seen over these past few weeks in the UAE. A new record for the fastest fifty in a T20 World Cup final was established and, in no time, broken, and if Kane Williamson ended up on the losing side and Mitchell Marsh among the winners, the difference lay in what happened around them. Williamson scored 85 off 48 balls, and New Zealand's other batters made 78 off 73 between them. Marsh finished on an unbeaten 77 off 50. Australia's other batters combined to make 86 off 63. This included a superbly controlled half-century from David Warner, who in this tournament has returned to his best as a T20 opener after an unsettled and unsettling IPL, and a breezy cameo from Glenn Maxwell, to whom fell the honour of playi...