Craziest Cricket World Cup final ever!!! England finally won their first and it went to a Super Over

[Celerity]

for the first time ever.


Came down to the last ball, New Zealand needed 2 from 1 and they got run out for only 1 run.

England win Cricket World Cup after super-over drama against New Zealand
• New Zealand 241-8; England 241 all out
• England win super over to claim World Cup for first time
• Latest reaction to England winning the World Cup

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/14/england-new-zealand-cricket-world-cup-final-match-report-super-over


England have won the Cricket World Cup for the first time after a thrilling victory over New Zealand at Lord’s in a match that had to be settled by a super over. After winning the toss and opting to bat Kane Williamson’s New Zealand side yet England a victory total of 242, Henry Nicholls top scoring with 55 and Tom Latham adding a useful 47 lower down the order. Chris Woakes and Liam Plunkett took three wickets apiece.

England looked deep in trouble when they were reduced to 86 for four by some expert bowling but a superb century partnership from Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler wrestled back the initiative, and Stokes’s dramatic, unbeaten 84 forced the super over. Stokes and Buttler came out to bat for England. Trent Boult was the bowler for New Zealand and his line was impeccable but a four from Buttler off the final ball meant England posted a total of 15.

Joffra Archer took the ball for England but a wide off the first ball set the tone. Jimmy Neesham hit a six and it came down to Martin Guptill needing two runs off the final ball to win the World Cup. He was run out by Buttler and England took the glory.

Williamson’s 30 off 53 balls reflected New Zealand’s watchful approach on another tricky pitch, Nicholls overturning an lbw decision on nought to top-score with 55 off 77 deliveries. Plunkett’s key breakthroughs, the all-important scalp of Williamson among them, took the headlines though Woakes was the metronome of the England attack, especially early on. Mark Wood and Archer turned up the heat - although England gave away 17 wides in 30 extras. Wood equalled the fastest delivery in the tournament at 95.7 miles per hour while he chipped in with the wicket of Ross Taylor – earning an lbw decision that would have been overturned had New Zealand not earlier burned their review.


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England's Jos Buttler runs out New Zealand's Martin Guptill to win the 2019 Cricket World Cup final

[Aristus]

1. I don't know why, but I'm strangely elated to see the British being more open to effusive

displays of emotion these days.

The same results might have, in earlier times, ended with simple stiff handshakes all around, and murmurs of "Good show, old boy..."

I love seeing the unbridled joy in their faces...

[DavidDvorkin]

21. That's the movie version of Brits.

[EarlG]

2. Just finished watching it

Talk about dramatic! The last (second-last?) over with NZ's fielder stepping on the boundary for 6 runs instead of a catch, and then Ben Stokes accidentally deflecting the ball for an additional four runs when he was diving for the crease... wow.

[Celerity]

7. the Stokes deflection for a total of a six was MADNESS, my whole house (I am a dual UK/US citizen,

London raised, have been to Lord's like 20 times with my father, and I am half Bajan so have been to Kensington Oval in Bridgetown a lot too) went BONKERS. When Jimmy Neesham smashed that six into the Mound Stand on the second ball of the Super Over, I thought we were well and truly done for, but the lads pulled it out. What a Super Over for the rookie bowler Archer! He wasn't even on the team 2 months ago.

I know most of this is like speaking Martian to most Americans, lololol

[Lochloosa]

8. Martian would be an improvement. 😂

[Celerity]

12. All it takes to basically understand the game to a decent level is watch about 10 matches with

a person well-versed to explain it. It looks crazy complicated to a novice, but it it fairly simple once you grasp the basic rules and nomenclature.

It is the 2nd most popular sport in the world after football (real football, aka soccer, not the US type) with 2 and half plus billion fans.

[EarlG]

14. I called my parents back in the UK after the match

My dad said he had to go and lie down in a dark room for a while

[gratuitous]

17. Martian? No.

I recognize all those words as being English, just not in the order presented.

[underpants]

3. I have absolutely no idea what you all are saying but it sounds great

Congratulations to the champs

[jberryhill]

4. Seven flobs in only three squirmishes!

That’s got to be a new record!

[grantcart]

19. Snort

And the over/under on the unders were over the Super over ending with two over/unders in undies.

[virgogal]

5. Congrats,England.

[Tech]

6. I do not know much about cricket, but congrats and glad you all enjoyed it.

I do have one question. I watch a lot of pbs, Acorn, and Britbox. They all wear white and beige when playing cricket. Have the Brits been misleading us in th US? Are they not playing true cricket on Midsomer Murders? Do I need to be leery of all British broadcasting?

[Celerity]

9. Flannels (aka cricket white dress) is only for full Test Cricket, the World Cup is a series of ODI's

(One day internationals) played after the group stage via knock-out matches and is limited overs cricket (50 per side.)

England and the Kiwis were dead tied at 241 runs to 241 runs at the end of the 100 overs, so it went (for first time EVER) to a Super Over

[Tech]

16. Thank you. I will read up on it and try to understand better.

I love that there is always more to learn, and glad that there is a solid explanation. I was kinda trying to be funny. My husband gets irritated with my baseball comments.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. White is traditional; for the limited overs form, they introduced team colours

You don't need team colours, since there's never any doubt about who's on what side. But marketing and TV meant colours came in. But if you're looking at an amateur game, you'd still expect white.

(The 'classic' international match is played over 5 days, and even then can end in a draw if the last team can't be completely bowled out; since the 70s, there's also been one day forms, like this - this started at 10:30am local time, and ended about 7:30 - an hour later than expected, since both sides scored 241 in the number of balls they were allowed. So they each got 6 more each, and the scores in that were level too. So they counted the number of boundaries each scored - a bit like deciding baseball on number of home runs, if you can't separate them on batters reaching home).

[Celerity]

15. +10000

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. I know next to nothing about Cricket but I recognize it as an important sport beloved by many

Even I can get why this victory means so much to England. And a thrilling close match is a thrilling close match whether or not one understands the rules of play. Still I am bemused by how incomprehensible the narrative of this story is to someone like me who knows little about Cricket. Writing like this:

"England looked deep in trouble when they were reduced to 86 for four by some expert bowling but a superb century partnership from Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler wrestled back the initiative, and Stokes’s dramatic, unbeaten 84 forced the super over."

I acknowledge that it is my loss that all that sailed right over my head. Goes to show that much sports jargon, like "the infield fly rule" in baseball, only makes sense to genuine fans.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. I think 99% of cricket fans wouldn't have seen a "super over" before

It's never been used in a World Cup before. So we were all trying to find out the exact rules - and since this form of tie-break also ended in a tie, it ended up with an almost arbitrary way of breaking the tie. Which we won, thank god.

[Celerity]

18. yes! and now it is.....

[ornotna]

20. Reading that, I got this

May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?

I have this though.

https://www.google.com/logos/2017/cricket17us/cricket17us.html?hl=en

Have fun.

And congratulations to England.