Though England had lost early wickets, B Strokes kept the game going. Towards end New Zealand had missed catches, catch becoming six, and a two becoming four which eventually turned to six, all pointing towards a lucky day for England and the match ending in a tie of 241 each. Now it was time for Super Over. 6 balls per team. Six balls or two wickets whichever is earlier finishes the super over. England Scored 15 runs with batting continued by Stokes and Buttler. Neesham and N Guptil from NZ took over. And here to there was a tie, with Guptil being run out on the last ball!! England became champions based on number of boundaries. England scored 26 boundaries in total in the entire duration of the match as compared to 17 by the Black Caps and were thus crowned as champions. Indeed hard luck for New Zealand.
Bachchan took to Twitter to mock the ICC rule and tweeted: "You have Rs 2,000, I have Rs 2,000. You have one note of 2,000; have four notes of 500. Who is richer? ICC: The one who has four notes of 500 is richer."
The claims for Sunday’s final to be the greatest game of one-day cricket ever played are stacking up. It’s hard to beat the super over format for drama but the game’s answer to the penalty shootout is always going to be quite rare. The 1999 semi-final between Australia and South Africa was tied and has to be rank alongside this final. The two best teams in the competition were deadlocked, with the Australians going through because they had beaten the Proteas earlier in the tournament. The climax of the semi – like Sunday’s final – came with a run out, albeit one of the most comic in cricketing history. Even after Winners are declared and Cup is handed over, fans across keep questioning the rule! New Zealand have advanced to the finals for the second time in a row, after qualifying for the summit clash in 2015. They had met Australia at Melbourne four years ago.
For England it is 44 years of dream come true!! They are the first player to win all three work cups - football world cup in 1966 and Rugby world cup in 2003 and cricket world cup in 2019. Their motto appeared to be “ Never Ever give up, until you achieve”. 7/15 players of England were from other part of the world. Ben Stroke – The Man of the Match is from New Zealand; then there are 2 each from Pakistan and South Africa, One each from West Indies and Ireland. So they say, to win world cup England gathered people from all over the world.
Finishing match is an art. Guptill runs out Dhoni, Jos Butler says I’m a huge fan of Dhoni, and he runs out Guptill. An amazing man Guptill is – seems he has only two figures on one leg. “With the expectations come the pressure to win and Kohli said that his team is better equipped to handle that pressure as they are now used to it. He went on to add that it was no secret that not going forward from here would be a huge disappointment.” Kohli had mentioned before Semi Final and India was on Top of the chart then. But it rained that day, when NZ was about to finish their batting, they got time to prepare to bowl for India, and next day, we lost three quick wickets for One run each, and lost the semi-finals. After the match Kane Williamson who plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL, and has also captained the franchise, knows a thing or two about the passion of the fans from India, and spoke about it at length. "I hope they're not too angry."Obviously, the passion for the game in India is unrivalled and we are all fortunate to play this sport and have a country like India be right behind it."But hopefully we can adopt 1.5 billion supporters and they'll be supporting us, what do you reckon?"
Kane Williamson has become a very respectable Man not for his becoming the Man of the Series, but for being very cool, simple and sincere player. No sledging, No controversies, No arguments with umpires, no attitude, no anger, no over reactions. He kept smiling – As though his reaction was ‘ Dear Life, No matter how many times you break me, I’ll smile again and again because I gave everything I had, so I don’t need to feel regret.” Just said – “ I don’t know how they won it, what was it, boundaries or something? Someone had to walk away with the title and we’re gutted that it’s not us. England had a very good campaign and they deserve victory”. Heart really breaks when you give your 200% best yet fail, only because on one fucking cricket rule. They had given their blood and sweat for the game with the sensational fighting spirit ever. Indian’s respect them and consider both team as winners. In fact it is said that as England and New Zealand, both are winners, let the trophy remain in the middle, and in case there is a line passing from England to New Zealand, the trophy would remain in India! Men in Blue would have the trophy for 2019.
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