Final: Kiwis take on their arch-rival Australia
Final: Kiwis take on their arch-rival Australia
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Kiwis have had a tougher time of it, and just about managed to squeeze through the door courtesy a superior net run rate to England. Both teams lost all their games against Australia and New Zealand won the first of their games against England by 12 runs to get into the final league game placed slightly better. As a result, after England scored mammoth total of 194 runs with 7 down, they had to stop New Zealand at 174 to qualify for the final, but that wasn’t to be. England still won, but by two runs. Not good enough.

Australia have been the form team by some distance. Before the tournament, they had looked a bit thin with many of the regulars rested keeping in mind the upcoming Test series in South Africa. But despite David Warner, made captain of the team, having a lean run in the first three matches with runs of 6, 4 and 2 Australia were unstoppable. Apart from the two wins against New Zealand, Australia also beat England both the times they faced off, with wins scripted by restrictive bowling and good batting hands from Maxwell and Finch, and the new man in the mix, Short.

Squads

New Zealand: Kane Williamson (capt), Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Ross Taylor, Mark Chapman, Tim Seifert (wk), Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Ben Wheeler, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Trent Boult, Anaru Kitchen.

Australia: David Warner (capt), Ashton Agar, Alex Carey (wk), Ben Dwarshuis, Travis Head, Chris Lynn, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richardson, D'Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake, Marcus Stoinis, Andrew Tye, Adam Zampa.

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