WC FINAL: England v New Zealand Lords London July 14 2019 (Result - Tie)

[Mr Angry]

I can see that ricochet rule being changed. Ball will be called dead once it hits the bat. Two runs not 6.

Congratulations England though, it was not luck to get to the final, nor to fight until the last ball.

NZ so unlucky.

 

[Pommy]

I love how leedswanker literally waits till it's over to post. Where was your bottle before dickhead ??

Deep breaths lol.

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

Can they protest this in the stewards room? Kane Williamson is the size of a jockey

Sounds like one too

 

[edabomb]

Santner ducking a bouncer on the final ball of our innings. What a brain neutral moment. Hand your glasses in.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Sounds like one too

LOL

 

[JJ]

Bit deflated... not a super over fan

Congrats England

 

[vvvrulz]

Most gutted I’ve been in f**king forever, I mean seriously what the f**k

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Santner ducking a bouncer on the final ball of our innings. What a brain neutral moment. Hand your glasses in.

Yep our lack of aggression at the death cost us. Should’ve swung and run

 

[Pommy]

Got to feel a little bad for the kiwis, the rules need to change so the ball is dead and that wickets are more important than boundaries.
I don’t feel that bad though, I’m sure nobody else would really either.

The salt on social media is at epic proportions from pretty much everyone except the kiwis who seem to have been pretty graceful about it all.

 

[edabomb]

Shared title would have been good after the 50 overs. The loss of prizemoney would be enough incentive for teams not to conspire to that result.

Too many variables with cold batters and bowlers in the super over.

 

[Timbo]

I just don’t understand why in the event of a tied super over they don’t just have another super over.

The soccer World Cup wouldn’t give the trophy to the team that hit the most into the top right corner in the event of a tied shootout.

 

[vvvrulz]

Take nothing away from England though, Stokes even apologised for that horrible luck. Don’t like em but we just happened to get a bad hand and they didn’t.

 

[edabomb]

Take nothing away from England though, Stokes even apologised for that horrible luck. Don’t like em but we just happened to get a bad hand and they didn’t.

Yup breaks of the game. We batted towards a total that was always going to be a dog to defend. That increases the risk of minor things such as that swinging the match.

I just wish Gup lobbed it in!

 

[JJ]

Lot of luck went against us... FMD we manned up in the semis and finals though, against very good teams we showed old school cricket nous... that Boult catch and the deflection were killers

Devastating really - sharing would have been preferable, continuing to bat in the super over is probably helpful, and the fetish with boundaries is annoying... feeling like we probably did enough to win, but so many little things went their way - certainly didn't deserve to lose, neither did they to be fair - but beaten by a Kiwi, a deflection off his bat while running, and not hitting as many boundaries

What a game, what a game

 

[JJ]

Tough luck NZ. Scored the same amount of runs, took more wickets...
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Can't help but feel that is a better solution - although to be fair we got those last couple in desperation runs - it was a tie, there was no separation...

A great competition - really sucks to be on the wrong side of it

 

[Iafeta]

Ridiculous. How on earth do you decide a tournament that way. What an utter farce.

 

[edabomb]

Here's a stat - England become the first team to win a World Cup without winning the final.

 

[The Bye]

Congratulations to the United Nations on (err sort of) winning their first World Cup final.

What a brilliant match led by their Irish skipper, with a fantastic super over bowled by their West Indian superstar, finished off with the winning runs hit by a kiwi.

 

[Valheru]

It is absolutely fitting that England's one CWC 'triumph' is such an empty one. In no way shape or form did they win that match.

The clear solution is to keep having super overs until there is a winner.

 

[jargan83]

Boundary count back is the most ridiculous way to decide the final I’ve ever heard of.

Keep that shit in T20.