I hear they going to CCJ...
England did not win by an absolute majority...
But, I would a prefer the WC be shared instead of coming down to how much boundaries hit. Well played both teams. NZ can hold their heads high, they did not lose...
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Breaking News! NZ Going to Court
In reply to tops
Agree 100% - the most fours is absolute rubbish - a run is a run.
In reply to Chrissy
Bwaaaahahahahahaha..............
England in allyuh collective Pweffen!
In reply to Chrissy
What if NZ had more than England?
In reply to FuzzyWuzzy
Talking for myself, my position would have been the same...
Even though this law is geared towards the West Indies...
In reply to FuzzyWuzzy
I would have made the same comment - it is an arbitrary rule - a run is a freaking run. As I posted elsewhere we ignore many arbitrary rules including this one - because they are so rarely used. This one is asinine.
If football can have penalty kicks, then cricket can have super overs until a winner is decided.
Interesting that the spiritual home of the game, keeper of traditions, purists etc have mandated that total # of Boundaries scored would be the decider in a World Cup final.
More evidence that T20 ruleth the cricketing roost
In reply to imusic
Ahh, here comes the other hater... Let it burn you Suckers!
In reply to imusic
i didn't know t20 cricket invented boundaries
In reply to doosra
Remember that the next time you hold your nose while referring to it as lickit cricket
They should. Umpire made wrong call in awarding 6 runs. It should have been 5 according to the law.
Dharmasena has had a shocking couple games.
Horrible umpiring decisions that had major impacts on games.
In reply to WIForever
Umpiring was bad during the entire World Cup.
In reply to imusic
that would be you trying to remain relevant with those halfarsed cricketers you support
In reply to tops
We have our very own CC.Com court of justice where the arbitrary ruling is that everybody pelted us, cheated or have ICC mess we up.
Even with the boundary rule, why not sixes? We would have won that if Gayle and Russel were fit
and, you guessed it
If they didnt pelt us out.
In reply to goofballs
In reply to tops
To decide the wc by the team that hits the most 4 seem strange and stupid. Why not continue with the super over> How can one rate 4s over 6s in deciding? The super over seems fair and square.
Sour grapes
In reply to NineMiles
I cant believe people are this dotish! The rule was not applied retroactively, it was there beforehand! Stop all the bellyaching nonsense!
Enjoy your win Ninesy! Long live the Queen!
In reply to Chrissy
I agree that they should have played super overs until one team scored more runs than the other, but those 2 super overs took forever with all the field changes and player conferences. I was somewhat of a disinterested observer until that accidental boundary off Stokes's bat. Then I wanted NZ to win.
In reply to Walco
I am just reading that the winner was decided by boundaries . Well well...Never thought that would be a tie breaker for a WC final.
But England under the rules would win anyway if they reverted to the league rules..they finished 3rd
and NZ ended 4th as semi finalsists.That would have made more sense. The Kiwis also let it slip despite some grave erros on their part and....also the umpires.
I picked NZ to win before a ball was bowled in this WC. Of course I am not happy that England(The commonwealth team) won. But that is
cricket..the breaks(luck) went their way.
But this was an epic match and we should all be happy to have been a witness to it as in the Long run..CRICKET was the winner in a match for the ages.
In reply to hubert
That lbw that was not given on the first ball of the match was huge. I am still trying to figure out how the ump did not give that one. The umpire's call rule is a joke. They should just figure out the actual margin of error for ball tracking and let the technology make lbw decisions. I doubt the margin of error is 1/2 a ball, which is the benchmark for umpire's call.
You are right about NZ making grave errors though. I thought the Boult catch near the end where he stepped on the boundary rope was huge. He could have knocked the ball back in to Taylor before stepping on the boundary.
Nonetheless I have not been that riveted to a TV screen watching two teams not name West Indies in my entire life
In reply to StumpCam
Long Live Great Britannia! Still ruling the waves.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
In reply to tops
I cant imagine 612 legal deliveries being bowled and the scores are still even. NZ can be proud of being part of a game I never thought was possible in T20 much less ODI.
I have never been riveted to the TV looking at a game which I was indifferent to the outcome.
At least I can say that now New Zealand and their fans know how I and many other West Indian supporters felt when Boult held that catch to dismiss Brathwaithe in Match #29.
In reply to Hellraiser
I get it, but it's not even in the same neighborhood. This is a championship on the line.
NZ losing the way they did... cruel, so cruel.
An accidental incident decided the WC, sorry NZ was on the wrong side but history will have this as the Best World Cup finals ever! Both team were winners. Congratulations to England!
In reply to Tryangle
I realize that the magnitude of the two games were not comparable by any stretch of imagination, but between match #29 and the finals, only one of those results crushed my West Indian soul.
In the "what ifs" video of the WC19 that was aired a week ago, the question was asked, "What if Brathwaithe's six was two feet higher?"
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Enough digressing from this epic CWC19 finals. I am happy for England but NZ was robbed by incompetent umpiring. Lack of interpretation of the rules by one of the most respected umpires in the ICC Elite Panel who has over 8 years international experience.
In reply to Hellraiser
Maybe a case could be made for the booth umpire to buzz the on-field umpires, instead of the other way around, when it comes to completed runs and the like. Because if Taufel, etc are correct then this qualifies as a howler.
In reply to Tryangle
How many things can a live umpire track in real time. Taufel relied on studying footage hours after the fact
In reply to Tryangle
There is no IF about this. It was a howler. When Guptil released the ball, the batsmen has not crossed.
already crossed at the instant of the throw or act.
Laws of Cricket 2017 Edition
In reply to FuzzyWuzzy
post deleted....
Man these people.....everybody at fault only because England win.......
In reply to cherri
England was my team to win B4 the WC started, the only thing, I didn't Xpect them to struggle so much.
The only wrong prediction, I had an England V India finals.
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