Australia won T20 World Cup: How many times Australia won T20 World Cup in the past?

Dixit Bhargav | 14/11/2021
Australia won T20 World Cup: How many times Australia won T20 World Cup in the past?

Australia won T20 World Cup: Australia beat New Zealand by 8 wickets at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium tonight.

Normal service appears to have resumed with respect to Australia winning white-ball World Cups. Having won three out of the first four ODI World Cups of this century, Australia have won another title after as many as six years.

A primary reason why Australia’s victory, on this particular occasion, is special is because they weren’t expected to lift the trophy. Not sure of qualifying for the semi-finals after losing to England, Australia have since emerged into a robust unit to beat Pakistan and New Zealand in the semi-final and final respectively.

Australia won T20 World Cup

Despite teams chasing successfully at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, a 173-run target was no mean task for the Aussies especially after they lost captain Aaron Finch (5) in the third over.

It was a match-winning 92-run partnership for the second wicket between opening batter David Warner (53) and all-rounder Mitchell Marsh (77*) which laid the foundation for an 8-wicket victory.

It was on the penultimate delivery of the penultimate over that all-rounder Glenn Maxwell (28*) reverse-swept Tim Southee for a boundary to win the match. Not just another match-winning shot, Maxwell’s boundary powered Australia to their first-ever T20 World Cup victory.

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In the previous six T20 World Cups, Australia’s best performance had come more than a decade ago during the ICC World Twenty20 2010 in West Indies. Facing arch-rivals England in the final match in Barbados, Australia had failed to defend 148 runs back in the day.

All in all, this is Australia’s sixth white-ball World Cup victory (most by any team) in cricket. In addition to the World Cup, the Aussies also have a couple of Champions Trophy titled to their name.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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