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Inspired by Conway's 92, New Zealand got their revenge for last year's T20 WC final loss to Australia.

The 23-year-old Finn Allen hit the second ball of the match for a boundary and the third for a six over mid-on, and then drove a boundary straight down the ground as New Zealand took 14 off the first over from paceman Mitchell Starc. The match at a sold-out Sydney Cricket Ground was a repeat of the 2021 final in Dubai when Australia powered to an eight-wicket win and their maiden T20 World Cup crown. Devon Conway carried his bat on Saturday with a majestic unbeaten 92 to help New Zealand post 200-3 before Australia were skittled for 111 in Sydney to make a nightmare start to their title defence.

Finn Allen said the Black Caps wanted to throw the first punch in their T20 World Cup opener against Australia. The young slugger and his teammates did not ...

But the boys showed a lot of ticker and took their catches. Australia’s innings, like their opponents’, began in ominous fashion as David Warner saw his stumps displaced when Southee’s first delivery took a couple of deflections off both player and bat. This was by far the biggest moment of his career. Kane Williamson’s introduction saw the scoring rate fall as 16 balls passed without a boundary, a slump ended when Conway cracked Zampa over long on. The Black Caps had been bullied by Australia on their home turf since the famous 2011 test triumph in Hobart. The young slugger and his teammates did not miss.

Here are five of the T20 matches between the two sides that have produced some iconic moments over the years.

This was when Virat Kohli took over the job of rebuilding India’s chase and saw out Amir. Apart from Khurram Manzoor’s 10 and Sarfaraz Ahmed’s 25, none of the Pakistan batters reached double figures. While the final took the limelight, India and Pakistan played another closely fought match in the group stages. This time around Afridi was injured and Babar was facing a dip in form. India’s bowlers hit the stumps on their first three attempts while Pakistan missed all three, handing India a rare bowl-out win of 3-0. Pakistan’s batting boasted the top T20-opening pair of Babar and Mohammad Rizwan.

Melbourne weather forecast: Will rain play spoilsport in the blockbuster India vs Pakistan clash in T20 World Cup at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground?

Also get [T20 World Cup 2022 Schedule](https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/t20-world-cup/schedule), [Points Table](https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/t20-world-cup/point-table)and [Cricket Live Score](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/live-score)of ongoing matches. According to Australian Government's Bureau of Meteorology, there are 70 percent chances of rain in the city on October 23 -- the date of the clash. But again, I've been hearing about the Melbourne weather for a while now and it keeps changing You don't really know what is going to happen tomorrow. Ahead of the T20 World Cup clash, however, things turned rather gloomy in Melbourne earlier this week when it rained heavily in the city on Wednesday and Thursday. While India had defeated [Babar Azam](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/babar-azam)'s men in the group game, Pakistan made a brilliant comeback to beat the [Rohit Sharma](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/rohit-sharma)-led side in the Super 4 stage. Both sides will meet in men's cricket for the third time this year; India and Pakistan took on each other twice in the Asia Cup last month.

It means Australia must beat England or risk missing the knockout stages unless an upset is pulled off by the likes of Afghanistan, who boast the brilliant ...

Australia is fresh from losing 2-0 to England in a three-match series. you’re still confident but if you haven’t got that type of player in your team, you’re sitting back wondering if you can still win,” he responded to Clarke on the Big Sports Breakfast. Things won’t get much better from here either. And fair enough. South Africa lost just one pool match but because of their poor net run rate missed the knockout stages. Australia had just played series against Zimbabwe, New Zealand and the West Indies, as well as going on a tour of India in the space of little over a month. New to Kayo? “The schedule has been so packed over the last six to eight weeks that we identified a couple of months ago that we wanted to make sure that we’re in a position to be peaking at the right time of the World Cup and not beforehand. Every T20 Live & Exclusive to Fox Sports on Kayo. In truth, that’s an awfully tall order considering the form the team is in and the calibre of opponent that is to come. Team dynamics are funny things, and the axing of one of the most popular members of the side seemed perplexing and proved to be a poor one after the dust was settled. In the lead-in matches against England, Aaron Finch won the toss and sent the opposition in to bat purely on the basis of wanting to practice their run-chases.