File image of Australia team
The 34th match of ICC T20 World Cup 2021 was indeed a low-scoring one-sided affair that was clinched clinically by Aaron Finch's Australia in Dubai on Thursday. The bowling decision after the toss favoured the yellow brigade as they kept chipping Bangladesh's wickets at regular intervals. With Australia's disciplined bowling and the trap of spin web by Adam Zampa who took a fifer, the Kangaroos staggered the Tigers for just 73 runs in 15 overs.
Their chase with the bat was no less. With a 58-run opening stand between David Warner (18 off 14 balls) and skipper Aaron Finch (40 off 20 balls), Australia were in a commanding position. Finch's side emerged victorious with eight wickets and nearly 14 overs to spare in their game against Bangladesh.
Aaron Finch: Starc in the first over and Hazlewood in the second set it up for us. You never plan in T20s. If you get the plan wrong, you can be on the other side. At the halfway mark we knew the equation and tried to finish it off as soon as possible. You need to take your opportunities in this format. The ball did swing for Mitch. Zampa did well in the middle as well. We have to play well against West Indies. We need to control what we can. The four day break came at the right time for us after the thumping we had.
Mahmudullah: You can't say a lot of things when you performance like this. We need to look at a lot of things. One of the best wickets that we played. We need to figure out our batting. T20 game, you need to have a good PP. You need to have proper power players at the top. Before coming to this WC, we needed some wins under our belt. As professional cricketers though we need to adapt to any conditions. Especially in Super 12, we did come close against WI and SL. We did some silly mistakes and lost. Hope our fans keep supporting us and we will bring them some results.
Adam Zampa, Player of the Match: First 5-fer it is always a pretty nice feeling. I have been playing for 5-6 years and that's one eluded me for a while. I think I had three overs between that over and the hat-trick ball, I thought I was the only one who knew (about the hat-trick ball).. but if it wouldn't have been for Wadey's hands I wouldn't be getting so many wickets, he's been keeping beautifully well, tough catch but just happy with the win. I think it (wrist spinners being successful) is a bit of both (conditions and skill). The quicks have been tough to score off in the powerplay, also guys like Maxwell doing well which gives me a chance to pick wickets in the middle overs. There have been some really good wrist spinners and they are getting wickets because teams are coming harder in the middle overs. It does change my role (when I'm the lone spinner) but I don't feel any added pressure, even when Ash (Agar) plays my role is to pick wickets in the middle. Sometimes you bowl in the powerplay and sometimes in the back end, but the overs I bowled today were purely to take wickets. We needed to chase down a low score today and we tried to be aggressive.
Teams
Australia (Playing XI): David Warner, Aaron Finch(c), Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade(w), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood
Bangladesh (Playing XI): Mohammad Naim, Liton Das(w), Soumya Sarkar, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mahmudullah(c), Afif Hossain, Shamim Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Mustafizur Rahman
