14 july 2019 Move over Edgbaston 1999 (and 2005), Jo'burg 434, and the two tied Tests - the 2019 World Cup final has all of you beat. This humdinger of a game that no one deserved to lose, and no one did, was tied at the end of the 50th, and so was the Super Over that followed. England lifted the trophy because they hit more boundaries in the game - a cruel final twist of the knife in the side of New Zealand, who were also ruled to have conceded six runs off one ball after a throw from the deep hit Ben Stokes' bat when he dived for his crease to complete a second run in the last over and went for four. New Zealand played out of their skins, but so did England. Stokes in particular, who kept them in the hunt at the end of his unbeaten 84, and then, all but spent, came out to bat in the Super Over and scored nine off the first four balls. For New Zealand, Martin Guptill, who had had a poor run with the bat at the World Cup, turned out in the Super Over alongside Jimmy Neesham, and ended up falling short of the crease as New Zealand scrambled desperately for the run that would give them their first World Cup trophy. Spare a thought for Trent Boult, who bowled the final over of the innings, clinically effecting two run-outs off the last two balls of it, and the Super Over, and took a catch on the boundary in the 50th over that nearly sealed the deal for New Zealand... before he stepped on the rope. For Neesham, who took three wickets, and came back at the end to wrest 14 runs off the first five balls of the Super Over. And for 24-year-old Jofra Archer, who had not qualified to play for England till about four months previously, and then ended up bowling the Super Over, winning England their first World Cup title in 44 years of trying. #ghca7777 #ghcagoldenhandcricketanalytics #sachintendulkar #rahuldravid #souravganguly #sachin #virendersehwag #indiancricketteam #rohitsharma #viratkohli #msdhoni #yuvrajsingh #shikhardhawan #klrahul #mumbaiindians #icc #bcci #anjalitendulkar #cricketlovers #klrahul #saratendulkar #arjuntendulkar #sakshidhoni #zivadhoni #sachinfanpage #indvsnz #sachinborntowin #onthisday #england (at England and Wales Cricket Board) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCng52-lal-/?igshid=j7wplhuv566y
