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Congratulations to England for winning ICC World Cup 2019!

dildilpak said:
I disagree strongly. How they prepped up for the game, what the team rankings were, how they reached the final does not matter in a KO, especially in a WC final. The fact is that they didn’t actually win the match, they fluked it because of an arbitrary technicality. So can we really say they were the better team on the day or they deserved the WC today? Making both the teams joint-winners was the fairer result & nobody would have complained against that.
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I don't disagree.

There should have been joint winners or another super over.

But if you look at the preceding events, England did deserve it more than NZ.

Just because of pathetic ICC rules, let's not be harsh on England.

It's upsetting to see them prevail BUT it wasn't their fault. They fought hard.

Their journey has been a long one.

They went to extents which other teams didn't (which can easily be verified by the half assed efforts put in by India, Pak, Aus, SA, WI for the preparation).

They don't deserve to be mocked.

They are the champions. Let's acknowledge that.
 
TheNightWatchman said:
This victory just describes cricket perfectly. It's 95% hard work and dedication and 5% luck. And that 5% makes the biggest difference in the world no matter how good that 95% may be
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So true.

In my religion, they say everything is determined by 2 things:

1. Your current actions
2. Prarabda Karma (which is accrued based on your past actions - if we have to overly simplify it, we can call it destiny)

NZ did everything right.

But their Prarabda Karma was such that they weren't destined to win.

It is what it is.

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Napolean Bonaparte might seem silly to some. But maybe he was a wise man.
 
They are the champions and they won it fair and square.

Congratulations to team England.

Brand of brave cricket paid its dividends today
 
sensible-indian-fan said:
[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] bhai is awfully quiet.

I sense a calm before the storm.
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I don't feel the need to rub salt on the wounds. I did tell them I will have the last laugh.

On a serious note, England have completely smashed all the doubters - all the talk of them being soft chokers, bottlers, mental midgets etc. has been laid to rest. This England side is one of the most clutch teams in ODI history.

The way they beat India and New Zealand in the must-win group matches, the way they demolished the "elite mentality" of Australians and the way the fought back at 80/4 today was the stuff of gods.

People need to learn a lesson from this - don't spit on teams who work hard and strive for success. The notion that England got lucky today is nonsense. Today was the culmination of the work they have done since April 2015.
 
Mamoon said:
I don't feel the need to rub salt on the wounds. I did tell them I will have the last laugh.

On a serious note, England have completely smashed all the doubters - all the talk of them being soft chokers, bottlers, mental midgets etc. has been laid to rest. This England side is one of the most clutch teams in ODI history.

The way they beat India and New Zealand in the must-win group matches, the way they demolished the "elite mentality" of Australians and the way the fought back at 80/4 today was the stuff of gods.

People need to learn a lesson from this - don't spit on teams who work hard and strive for success. The notion that England got lucky today is nonsense. Today was the culmination of the work they have done since April 2015.
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England won today because of two things - that deflection from Ben stokes & a technicality about boundaries. How England performed before today does not matter - they didnt actually win the match. So pardon us if we think that it wasn’t a fair result based on TODAY’s match - NZ needed to be made joint winners.
 
dildilpak said:
England won today because of two things - that deflection from Ben stokes & a technicality about boundaries. How England performed before today does not matter - they didnt actually win the match. So pardon us if we think that it wasn’t a fair result based on TODAY’s match - NZ needed to be made joint winners.
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No one stopped New Zealand from scoring more boundaries. The rules are the same for everyone - New Zealand got the better of the rules when it comes to NRR, but they got the worse deal when it came to this rule. This is cricket, and they need to make peace with it.

Their is only one World Cup winner, and it is England.
 
Mamoon said:
No one stopped New Zealand from scoring more boundaries. The rules are the same for everyone - New Zealand got the better of the rules when it comes to NRR, but they got the worse deal when it came to this rule. This is cricket, and they need to make peace with it.

Their is only one World Cup winner, and it is England.
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Yes but you have to agree that this rule is arbitrary. Not merit based.
 
PakFan764 said:
[MENTION=147429]Chokli[/MENTION] keep your mouth shut next time.
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Rich coming from the person that said this pitch was a belter and England will win with ease.

Go back to the thread and I said if England do win this it won't be with ease.

I was right because I have a vastly superior cricketing brain than you.

Please educate yourself on Cricket
 
I congratulate Eng because they changed the way ODI cricket is played. They became the masters of high scores but also proved their mettle in this low scoring WC. They were the best team in the WC and there was essentially no weakness in their XI. Deserved world champions.

Nevertheless, the boundaries rules is nonsense.
 
Mamoon said:
No one stopped New Zealand from scoring more boundaries. The rules are the same for everyone - New Zealand got the better of the rules when it comes to NRR, but they got the worse deal when it came to this rule. This is cricket, and they need to make peace with it.

Their is only one World Cup winner, and it is England.
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You can't plan that like planning NRR.

NZ were unlucky.
 
Mamoon said:
They batted like cowards. They got what they deserved.
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I don’t see the objectivity here you claim to possess. What does ‘deserve’ even mean? They had equal runs and that’s what matters. Eng were the better team but the rule that gave them the WC is arbitrary at best and shameful at worst. Can you justify the rule?
 
Fantastic result and truly well done England.
Sadly a lot of Pakistani and Indian cricket fans are not “cricket” fans, they are Pakistan and India fans.
A wonderful game of cricket (and the rules governing the final over were known in advance)
 
Obaidd said:
I don’t see the objectivity here you claim to possess. What does ‘deserve’ even mean? They had equal runs and that’s what matters. Eng were the better team but the rule that gave them the WC is arbitrary at best and shameful at worst. Can you justify the rule?
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The rule wasn't made by England. It was made by the ICC and it applied to all teams - it doesn't matter if it is arbitrary. England won according to the rules and it is a fair and square victory. I won't call it a fluke because England were the pre-tournament favourites and the number 1 ranked side. 9/10 times, this England team would win a World Cup in England.
 
Well deserved win. I am absolutely gutted right now but neither team deserved to lose after that performance.
 
Look I know it is unlucky for NZ but in the whole tournament England played a lot better than NZ.

Also today in the final England did really well to restrict the Kiwis for sub-par score.

So England were the deserving winner.
 
Mamoon said:
The rule wasn't made by England. It was made by the ICC and it applied to all teams - it doesn't matter if it is arbitrary. England won according to the rules and it is a fair and square victory. I won't call it a fluke because England were the pre-tournament favourites and the number 1 ranked side. 9/10 times, this England team would win a World Cup in England.
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I agree that Eng were the better team and they didn’t make this rule.
Now look at the rule in isolation. Is it justifiable? The team that scored more boundaries wins?
 
[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION]

Congratulations to England and you.

There may be questions over the rule and manner in which they won but nobody can take away the World Cup from their showcase.

England have officially dispelled the notion of “chokers” and deserve this reward for changing their approach to the 50-over format.
 
England won the World Cup but they demolished the perception that they are mental midgets and cannot handle pressure. This team has proved to be one of the most clutch ODI teams in history with their back-to-the-wall performances in this World Cup.

A lesson to everyone who mocked them: learn to respect teams who work hard and have proper ambition, and stop celebrating mediocrity.

England have set the template for teams like Pakistan.
 
ManFan said:
[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION]

Congratulations to England and you.

There may be questions over the rule and manner in which they won but nobody can take away the World Cup from their showcase.

England have officially dispelled the notion of “chokers” and deserve this reward for changing their approach to the 50-over format.
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Thanks but I am not English. I don't deserve to be congratulated. I respect hard work and I want people to respect it as well. Success is a process and England have achieved that process.
 
Feel sad for NZ.They were the better team.England needed luck and they got it from the ricochet.
 
NZ got ROBBED as per whinger logic!

Congrats however to arguably the best side of the WC and the world by winning the best game ever in ODI history.

NZ is the most disciplined team in the world if there is a crown for it. Today, they were a better team but unfortunate.
 
Well played England. You play cricket how it should be played. You give test match importance. You played every single bi-lateral series with passion. You are no. 1 and you deserve it.
 
Mamoon said:
Thanks but I am not English. I don't deserve to be congratulated. I respect hard work and I want people to respect it as well. Success is a process and England have achieved that process.
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To be honest, they did not look completely invincible this tournament. They simply just scraped by enough to win it. Dropping that hack Moeen has been revelation.
 
Wish there was a better path to victory instead of some mathematical anomaly. Kind of leaves you high & dry.
 
Congrats England. If they had not won the world cup AT HOME and with THIS team today, they would have been mentally scarred for a little while. Stokes has been a man on a mission all tournament long and he delivered when it mattered.

Great final to top it all off!
 
Stokes and Archer star in Super Over as England lift the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup for the first time

England are ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup champions for the first time after Jofra Archer held his nerve to help beat New Zealand in a nail-biting Super Over at Lord’s.

England and New Zealand tied the World Cup final at Lord’s and Eoin Morgan’s side won via the Super Over

Ben Stokes scored 84 not out from 98 balls to help England tie the game and force a Super Over

England are the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup champions for the first time after Jofra Archer held his nerve to help beat New Zealand in a nail-biting Super Over at Lord’s.

The Black Caps needed two to win from the final ball but a superb throw from Jason Roy in the deep saw Martin Guptill agonisingly run out, as Kane Williamson’s side finished runners-up for the second successive men’s World Cup.

Jimmy Neesham had struck a magnificent six to leave New Zealand with seven to win from four balls but Archer’s resolve shone through, with England prevailing due to scoring more boundaries in the match and Super Over combined.
Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes struck 15 from their allocated six Trent Boult deliveries – and it was that pair that England had to thank for giving them a chance amidst a dramatic finale earlier in the day that saw both teams finish on 241.

Eoin Morgan’s side had coincidentally needed 15 to complete their chase in Boult’s final over, with a superb six over midwicket the perfect way to start for Stokes.

But the drama was only just beginning, the next ball seeing a return from the deep ricochet off the all-rounder’s bat and fly to the boundary for another six runs to his name.

He, Adil Rashid and Mark Wood then scampered the two runs from the final two balls – coupled with two run-outs – to ensure both sides finished level after 100 overs of pulsating cricket.

Stokes and Buttler had taken England’s target down to double figures after being reduced for 86 for four in the 24thover, thanks to superb bowling from New Zealand’s fast bowlers, defending 242.
Roy (17) was caught behind off Matt Henry, while Joe Root (7) fell to the same fate to the exceptional Colin de Grandhomme, who conceded just 25 runs in 10 overs.

England Captain Eoin Morgan lifts the World Cup with the England team after victory for England during the Final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 between New Zealand and England at Lord's Cricket Ground on July 14, 2019 in London, England.

Jonny Bairstow was then bowled by Lockie Ferguson while the same man took a stunning catch to dismiss Morgan, before Stokes and Buttler led the England recovery with their partnership spanning more than 20 overs.

Slowly but steadily the runs flowed, Buttler carving Boult over extra cover to bring up his 50 from 53 balls while Stokes followed him to the milestone in the same over, England needing 53 runs from 36 balls.

Buttler began to free his arms but the wicketkeeper soon perished for 59, substitute Tim Southee taking a superb catch in the deep to give Ferguson his second wicket.

The drama continued, Liam Plunkett and Archer falling in the same Neesham over to sandwich a towering Stokes six, which Boult had caught before stepping on the boundary.

Still the over had more to offer, the last two balls seeing Rashid and Wood both run out coming back for the second as England scored 14 of the required 15 to force the Super Over.

Batting first, New Zealand had raced to 22 without loss within four overs as Guptill took a liking to Archer, an uppercut six and free-flowing four helping him find form.

But his enterprise was cut short when Chris Woakes’ probing opening spell saw him trap the opener lbw for 19, giving captain Williamson another early entrance.

Patience then took over as Henry Nicholls and Williamson battled their way to 91 for one from 20 overs, their eventual 74-run partnership their best for the second wicket this World Cup.

It fell to Plunkett – so often England’s middle-overs saviour – to once again produce the magic, Williamson (30) edging through to Buttler before bowling Nicholls (55) off the inside edge.
Ross Taylor then became the second Black Cap to pass 1,000 men’s World Cup runs but soon after he fell, lbw to Wood in the first ball of his new spell.
England then kept a strangle on proceedings as New Zealand went 14 overs without a boundary heading into the latter portion of their innings.
But the patience of Tom Latham eventually bore fruit, two fours and a six helping him to 47 with helping hands from Neesham (19) and de Grandhomme (16) seeing New Zealand finish on 241 for eight.

Plunkett and Woakes both ended with three-wicket hauls, following in the footsteps of Derek Pringle back in 1992 in registering three scalps for England in a men’s World Cup final.

But where Pringle missed out, these England bowlers prevailed – as Morgan’s side became the first first-time winners since Sri Lanka became ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup champions in 1996.

Scores in brief:
New Zealand tied with England, at Lord’s, London. England won the Super Over via boundary countback
New Zealand 241-8, 50 overs (Henry Nicholls 55, Tom Latham 47; Chris Woakes 3-37, Liam Plunkett 3-42)
England 241 all out, 50 overs (Ben Stokes 84 not out, Jos Buttler 59; Jimmy Neesham 3-43, Lockie Ferguson 3-50)
Player of the match: Ben Stokes (England)
Player of the tournament: Kane Williamson (New Zealand)
 
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Mamoon said:
England won the World Cup but they demolished the perception that they are mental midgets and cannot handle pressure. This team has proved to be one of the most clutch ODI teams in history with their back-to-the-wall performances in this World Cup.

A lesson to everyone who mocked them: learn to respect teams who work hard and have proper ambition, and stop celebrating mediocrity.

England have set the template for teams like Pakistan.
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This is a complete humiliation of england to be given the trophy on silly tie break. Nz were by far the superior team today flukes of nature got england the tie. Laughing stock of the world as most undeserved winners lolololol
 
angeldsoul said:
This is a complete humiliation of england to be given the trophy on silly tie break. Nz were by far the superior team today flukes of nature got england the tie. Laughing stock of the world as most undeserved winners lolololol
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By far the superior team?? :)))

Is that why the match ended up being a tie?

Eng deserved to win the WC a lot more than NZ. It's a miracle that NZ even made it to the final.
 
England’s road to World Cup victory was planned to perfection over the last four years

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them,” wrote William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, but some, England’s cricket team in particular, plan it.

England’s World Cup campaign in 2015 sparked a huge change in English cricket

England beat New Zealand via a Super Over to win the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup for the first time

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them,” wrote William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, but some, England’s cricket team in particular, plan it.
A laughing stock at the last World Cup four years ago they have, through a pragmatic policy of selection and approach, targeted white ball cricket for big change - change that has been radical enough to win England the Men’s World Cup for the first time in 44 years.

And what incredible scenes there were when their first title was decided by a Super Over, or more precisely by the amount of boundaries scored after both teams had scored 15 runs off their extra six balls following a tie in the match proper.

Such drama can only bolster cricket’s appeal. When Jonny Bairstow was asked whether he’d rather win the Ashes than the World Cup he said the Cup, something unthinkable before Andrew Strauss had effected his white ball revolution after the nadir experienced by England in that last World Cup.

Strauss is no longer in harness following his decision to step down as England’s director of cricket, but this team owe him a debt of gratitude for prioritising England’s white ball cricket.
Eoin Morgan must also take much credit. Not only did he persuade Strauss he was the right man to take England forward into this brave new world as its captain, he moulded the team in his own image, which was to play aggressive, winning cricket, especially with the bat.

The other pieces to the jigsaw were to appoint a coach and his assistant who would buy in to their cause. Because a change of culture was due, the Australian Trevor Bayliss was appointed with Paul Farbrace his deputy.

The pair had worked together before, taking Sri Lanka to the World Cup final in 2011. They had also been present during the Lahore terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team in Pakistan, so while knowing their new job would hold challenges they would not let it overwhelm them.

Bayliss, who played State cricket in Australia for New South Wales, was not especially hands on but he did encourage players to be bold. Of the team that sunk to that low in 2015, four played in the final against New Zealand, Morgan, Joe Root, Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes with Moeen Ali on the bench. In essence then, it was a change of culture rather a wholesale turnover of personnel.
When a big match like this is decided by small margins such as boundaries scored (England’s 26 to New Zealand’s 17), you have to feel for the losers.

Perennially underrated, New Zealand cricket has a turnover less than that of Surrey County Cricket Club.

They also have a talent pool of active cricketers in the low thousands. Yet, they have been one of the very best tournament teams in world cricket having made the semi-finals in eight of the 12 World Cups played.

Indeed, this was their second final in succession and while they were blown way in the first by Australia in Melbourne four years ago, they have done what all sportsmen and women should do and learnt from their mistakes.

The first thing they did was to play at a different tenor. Having lost alpha cricketers like Brendon McCullum, Grant Elliott and Luke Ronchi, their mantra has been to play not perfect cricket but winning cricket, and there is a difference.

As such they have no belief in getting into an ‘arms race’ with opponents like England, but to do things their way. And while few felt they’d made enough runs in either the semi-final against India or the final, they won the first match and came within a whisker of the taking the second.

After defeat by England, Australia’s Aaron Finch said England have set a new benchmark for the one-day game. Yet New Zealand have showed there is another way.

Not that England will change. The success of their ‘no blame’ culture has encouraged players to be bold and ‘play without fear.’

But the approach has not been without its glitches. Indeed, it’s first crisis came in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy against Pakistan two years ago, which England lost after their batting approach became confused.

They also lost a game to Scotland last year when their bold approach fell into recklessness. But while the underlying belief is still there it has been refined to the point where players like Ben Stokes, formerly headstrong and macho in his approach, has become a fine thinking batsman.

It was this second Stokes, rather than the former, which enabled England to win the 2019 World Cup but it has taken time and experience and the support of his captain an coach for him to emerge. Luckily for England, it was in the nick of time.
 
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Great game of Cricket. Lots of sour grapes here but England have been a dominant side for quite a while now and are deserving champions.
 
Well played England can't take it away from them. After only losing a close one to Pak they are overall worthy champions. After two heartbreaks in past finals they deserve this day.
 
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Congratulations England!! Kudos to the planning and execution for the past 4 years. Kudos to adapting your game to the new spicy pitches and kudos to keeping your head in this amazing game.

Congratulations to ICC as well for not making this WC all about runs. The best games of the tournament were where teams scored about 230 to 250 runs. I hope this trend will continue and making a hundred means something again. ICC needs to reevaluate the review system and the boundary rule. Great world cup over all and the deserving team won. Just amazing final to top this off and there is nothing more a fan of the game could ask for.
 
That has to be one of the greatest Cricket World Cup Finals I have witnessed.

Truely remarkable, had everything from the get go. Both teams neck and neck throughout and even the Super Over could not separate them.

Some ICC rules obviously went Englands way indirectly but hands down both teams gave it their all, its what you want to see 2 of the best teams in the tournament led by 2 great captains giving it everything at Lords to create history.

England found that extra oomph in Buttler and Stokes.
Stokes played the match of his life.

Cannot take anything away from both teams

I never gave up on England winning despite the wickets tumbling and rr soaring. This was their world cup to lose from the beginning and England finally found that extra energy to bring it home!

Much deserved for both teams. 1 can win the trophy but New Zealand are also worthy winners without the trophy.

Congratulations England and its fans. THEY DID IT!!
 
angeldsoul said:
This is a complete humiliation of england to be given the trophy on silly tie break. Nz were by far the superior team today flukes of nature got england the tie. Laughing stock of the world as most undeserved winners lolololol
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What nonsense.
Im a hardcore NZ supporter. We were very unlucky in the final but if we were really that much better we would have won
It was a tie and the tie breaker rule was in place before the world cup. Oh well.
Just let it go and congratulate England. They deserve the victory.
 
Thanks. Very proud of the team! An amazing feeling.
 
Well done england!! Congrats to both nz and england, a great tournament capped off by a great final!
 
aloo paratha said:
Flat Track Bullies got the tracks the needed. When they didn't they lost. They didn't get a flat pitch today, they got insane luck and still could only manage a tie.

Best team my a**.
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Give the hate a rest. I promise you will feel better.
 
Well done England all those whinging....
Go and do it elsewhere. They played within the rules that both teams signed up to so no point nit picking now. Can the rules be amended yes but to think England would have played exactly the same if wickets lost came into the equation you all are sadly mistaken.
 
dildilpak said:
England won today because of two things - that deflection from Ben stokes & a technicality about boundaries. How England performed before today does not matter - they didnt actually win the match. So pardon us if we think that it wasn’t a fair result based on TODAY’s match - NZ needed to be made joint winners.
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England won according to the rules of the tournament laid down by the ICC.

Well done England for emerging from the wreck of 2015 to play brilliant ODI cricket and win in 2019.

Think of Strauss a moment- after the horrible tragedy he suffered, he can know that the road he laid led England to this point. Good effort Strausser.
 
Mamoon said:
The rule wasn't made by England. It was made by the ICC and it applied to all teams - it doesn't matter if it is arbitrary. England won according to the rules and it is a fair and square victory. I won't call it a fluke because England were the pre-tournament favourites and the number 1 ranked side. 9/10 times, this England team would win a World Cup in England.
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It will go down as the most tainted World Cup victory in the history of sports.

England may have win the World Cup but they continue to remain the villain for the rest.
 
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NZ lost the game, yet became the heroes of this tournament.

England won the game only to continue to be disliked by everyone except Englishmen. That's England for you.. They eventually find a way to be a villain even though they didn't do anything wrong except winning the World Cup trophy.
 
Ab Fan said:
It will go down as the most tainted World Cup victory in the history of sports.

England may have win the World Cup but they continue to remain the villain for the rest.
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The bitter posters on here would have been trolling the Indians for days had they lost like New Zealand did.

It won't be tainted as the result was an outcome of the rules already in place.

By all means, feel aggrieved for the Kiwis for such a ****** rule, I do, but taking it out on England and calling them villains and their win tainted is just sour grapes.

England fans should enjoy the result of their efforts and be grateful their team actually gives a crap about the sport they play. Won't see Pakistan replicating anything like this anytime soon.
 
Ab Fan said:
It will go down as the most tainted World Cup victory in the history of sports.

England may have win the World Cup but they continue to remain the villain for the rest.
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It will go down as the most clutch World Cup win in history.
 
"England have won the World Cup for the barest of margins, for the barest of all margins. Absolute ecstasy for England. Agony, agony for New Zealand" - Ian Smith

I will remember this for a long time.
 
Abdullah719 said:
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What's up with Jofra Archers old tweets?
 
Ab Fan said:
NZ lost the game, yet became the heroes of this tournament.

England won the game only to continue to be disliked by everyone except Englishmen. That's England for you.. They eventually find a way to be a villain even though they didn't do anything wrong except winning the World Cup trophy.
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No, that’s hate for you.

You can keep drinking poison in the hope that England fans will get sick.

Or stop drinking poison and feel better.
 
Robert said:
No, that’s hate for you.

You can keep drinking poison in the hope that England fans will get sick.

Or stop drinking poison and feel better.
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if he is drinking poison he would been dead,the fact is apart from englishmen nobody considers this as a worldcup victory
 
If I was a Kiwi, Aussie or Pakistani with the same mentality as Botham, Pringle and Lamb I would say Kiwis were robbed and England won by default...like they keep banging on about Pakistan in 1992. Lol (bad losers). However, I am absoloutley delighted England won and they deserved it overall. Fate, luck or 'Allah smiling at you' is all part of life and the game. Well done and congratulations England. Finally after 44 years the world cup came home :)
 
England were led by a man born in Dublin but this team had so much more than the luck of the Irish. It was a multicultural team built in the image of the nation.
Led by Morgan, raised on the east coast of Ireland, inspired by Cantabrian Ben Stokes and turning to Bridgetown’s Jofra Archer in the Super Over, it was the diversity of this team that helped England to a first ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup victory.
Leg-spinner Adil Rashid told Morgan that they even had Allah on their side as a country united around these men who have come from all parts to play a fearless, ambitious brand of cricket.
And for Morgan, that diversity was never more evident than under the biggest pressure of a Super Over in the final of a World Cup.
He said: “I spoke to Adil, he said Allah was definitely with us. I said we had the rub of the green.
“It actually epitomises our team. Quite diverse backgrounds and cultures and guys grow up in different countries and to actually find humour in the situation we were in at times was pretty cool.”
That England were able to smile and laugh as they prepared for the Super Over is testament to the confidence in the group.
Morgan has urged his players throughout this World Cup to embrace the occasion, not to shy away from the biggest moments.
When it came down to it, and a World Cup was going to be decided by six balls, Morgan’s team did just that.
“I encouraged them to smile, laugh, enjoy because it was such a ridiculous situation, where there was quite a lot of pressure in that particular moment of the day, never mind the rest of it, and the fact it got to a Super Over and we had that to defend,” he added.
“It was a matter of trying to put smiles on the guys’ faces to release a bit of tension and the guys responded brilliantly to that.”
If Archer epitomised that carefree attitude more than anyone, seemingly unfazed by the pressure of the biggest over of his life in his first season of international cricket, it was Stokes who will be the abiding image of this final and this World Cup.
Three years after Carlos Brathwaite had launched him into the Kolkata night four times in as many balls to wrest the ICC World Twenty20 from England’s hands, Stokes did the same to New Zealand with his unbeaten 84 followed by eight of England’s 15 in the Super Over.
All Morgan could do was admire him.
He added: “To come through it is extraordinary. (Ben) is almost superhuman. He really carried the team and our batting line-up. I know Jos (Buttler) and his partnership was extraordinary, but to bat with the lower order the way he did, I thought was incredible.
“The atmosphere, the emotion that was going through the whole game, he managed to deal with that in an extremely experienced manner. And obviously everybody watching at home will hopefully try and be the next Ben Stokes.
“I have said this a number of times about Ben. I think a lot of careers would have been ended after what happened in Calcutta.
“Ben on numerous occasions has stood up individually and in a unit for us. He leads the way in training, in any team meetings we have, and he’s an incredible cricketer. And today he’s had a huge day out and obviously we are thankful for that.”
Morgan enters hallowed territory as an English World Cup-winning captain, joining the likes of Bobby Moore and Martin Johnson.
He was quick to play down those comparisons, insisting he will be happy to continue the quiet life, even after leading England to a victory whose repercussions for cricket in this country will continue long after his career has come to an end.
He added: “There’s no Mount Rushmore. Primrose Hill, that’s about it.
“I’m not sure (my life has changed). I hope it hasn’t changed that much. I enjoy my life.
“I lead quite a quiet one, so I hope it hasn’t changed too much. I would love it to change for everybody else who wants it to change, but I enjoy my life.”
 
Daniel Vettori: It was a gripping final across all 102 overs and New Zealand should be very proud of their performance in the final

The New Zealand players will be devastated on their way back home but they should be forever proud of how they performed in the World Cup final.


New Zealand were beaten by England in the World Cup final at Lord’s after a Super Over

Vettori says this is a settled New Zealand team and many of the players will be around for the next World Cup in 2023

The New Zealand players will be devastated on their way back home but they should be forever proud of how they performed in the World Cup final.
Both teams were incredible, each had times where they were on top and in control before it was wrestled back, so there were so many parts that you could analyse and deconstruct from the match.
Two ties in a World Cup final at Lord's, you can't even imagine that stuff. There was a lot going on, a lot packed into 102 overs and it was gripping from start to end.
It is heart-breaking for New Zealand, you could see the emotion from Kane Williamson at the end of the game and there would be some devastating guys in that dressing room.
The fans and the country will be devastated, they saw the effort, they saw the fightback and the opportunity to win the game.
The two ties are crazy, but there will be a lot of pride around the performance not only in this game but with the way New Zealand have played throughout the whole World Cup.
You can't take anything away from England, a couple of things went their way at the last but they were under an immense amount of pressure for the last few weeks of the tournament.
They stood up and dominated, they beat the three other semi-finalists in successive games to reach the final and you can't underestimate that type of performance.
New Zealand played very well in that final - they barely did anything wrong and in that seems unfair to be talking about them as a losing side.
So for them it's about celebrating the brilliance of their game and there was plenty of it. The catches in the outfield were superb, Matt Henry with the new ball was fantastic and Colin de Grandhomme, to put together a spell of 1/25 in a World Cup final shouldn't be overlooked.
Jimmy Neesham did a great job, Lockie Ferguson was in the wickets, Tom Latham played really well with the bat – there are far more positives than negative to take from this game and the performance.
It's a time to celebrate what went right and not focus too heavily on what went wrong.
New Zealand have shown themselves to have the fight but there's plenty to notice in the skill as well, their talent in pressure moments is incredible and they've shown that in so many games through the tournament, not least against India.
To see that and to see the way they play makes all New Zealanders very proud.
The Black Caps are a fantastic group of guys and that's personified in their cricket, as it was for England, too.
Watching Kane Williamson and Eoin Morgan lead their teams made it such a pleasure for people to watch that final, these are two great teams doing their all but with upmost respect for each other.
Looking ahead to where New Zealand go, we certainly won't be seeing too much change from them.
This is a settled team and the majority of this squad will be available for the next World Cup, so they've got the building blocks of something very special.
They'll take a lot of experience from this heading forward and there's no reason why these 15 guys can't be competing for a title in India in four years' time.
 
After 48 matches across 11 venues, England were the winners of the World Cup

The thrilling final throes of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 were all about emotions – each as raw as you’ll find.

We watched Jofra Archer visibly sag under the weight of unimaginable pressure, Jos Buttler gleefully uproot the stumps and man of the moment Ben Stokes immediately console a broken Martin Guptill.

These scenes will be seared into the memories of the nation and so England have etched their names into the history books.
Eoin Morgan’s men have won hearts and broken records on the way: here are your 2019 Cricket World Cup heroes in numbers.
Fraught final

The climax to the Lord’s final was a white-knuckle ride and not even England could avoid the odd slip-up.

In the final over of their run-chase, Adil Rashid and Mark Wood became the first pair of team-mates to both be run out without facing a ball in the same World Cup innings.

In the penultimate over of their bowling effort, which also featured a wicket and a crucial boundary from Matt Henry, Chris Woakes bowled a no-ball.

It seemed nothing earth-shattering at the time, but it was the first no-ball England bowled in the entire tournament.

Only one team has played a World Cup without bowling a no-ball and that was the Netherlands in 1996.

Archer hits the target

Archer was a revelation for the hosts – his tournament haul of 20 wickets was the highest-ever for an England player at a World Cup, surpassing Ian Botham’s 16 when they last reached the final in 1992.

The 24-year-old formed a fearsome pace bowling partnership with Mark Wood and no pair were faster across the seven weeks.

Wood’s 95.7mph delivery to Henry Nicholls in the final matched Archer’s feats from earlier in the competition, and Australia’s Mitchell Starc also reached that speed.

Consistency was one of the keys to Archer’s success and in taking at least three wickets against West Indies, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Australia he became just the fifth bowler to do so in four successive World Cup matches.

The other four bowlers to have achieved the feat are Chaminda Vaas and Brett Lee in 2003, Glenn McGrath in 2007 and Shahid Afridi across the 2007 and 2011 editions.

Field feats

When England fielded well at the 2019 Cricket World Cup, they played well as a team and tended to win.

They were found wanting as a collective in the defeat to Pakistan at Trent Bridge, runs leaked in the field seeing their batting line-up set an unwanted run-chase record.

Before that game, only two teams had scored 300 batting second in a World Cup match and ended up losing – both in 2015, Zimbabwe in defeat to Ireland and Sri Lanka when they lost to Australia.

England scored 334-9 and still fell short, the highest-ever losing score in a run-chase at the tournament.

But their fielding was largely excellent, and Joe Root set a new record for the most catches in the field in any World Cup with 13 from 11 games played, passing Ricky Ponting’s 11 grabs back in 2003.

And James Vince set a new record for the most catches by a substitute fielder at a World Cup with five. Ravindra Jadeja took four, surpassing Kenya’s Joe Angara and Suresh Raina with three.

Batting blitz

England’s power with the bat was a distinctive feature of their triumph and they set a record for sixes hit at a World Cup, clearing the rope 76 times and surpassing West Indies’ 68 in 2015.

Joe Root’s aggregate 556 was England’s best-ever in a single edition of the World Cup and county colleague Jonny Bairstow ended the competition with 532, a new record for a player at his first World Cup.

Indeed, Babar Azam’s 474 runs also went past the previous record of 461 set by Rahul Dravid back in 1999.

Root opened the batting in the win over West Indies – his adaptability is taken for granted, but it was the first time he’d performed the role in his 128 ODI appearances.

Only four other batsmen have batted more times before opening in the format; namely Mahela Jayawardene (269), Michael Bevan (178), Kapil Dev (166) and Carl Hooper (131).

Best of both worlds

England’s title challenge was buttressed by the ability of several of their number to contribute with bat, ball and in the field, and they did so to history-making proportions.

With 3-71 and four catches against Pakistan, Chris Woakes became just the third man in ODI history to take three wickets and pouch four catches in the same match, after Hooper and New Zealand’s Chris Harris.

In addition to opening against West Indies and scoring a century, Root also took two wickets and two catches – just the second such performance in ODI history.

The first and only other was Aravinda De Silva’s inspired display to lead Sri Lanka to victory in the 1996 final as he made 107 not out, took 3-42 and two catches.

Moeen Ali missed out on the final and earlier in the tournament, narrowly missed out on a peculiar place in cricket history.

He scored 31 runs on his 32nd birthday against Afghanistan, nearly matching Andrew Strauss’ 34 on his 34th birthday against Ireland in the 2011 World Cup.
 
Mamoon said:
It will go down as the most clutch World Cup win in history.
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Nope.

That will belong to AUS of 99’ because they faced elimination if they lost just ONE more game and ended up winning SIX in a row.

And arguably the (now) second greatest ODI of all time.
 
Congratulations to England. However one cannot help but feel sympathy for New Zealand. That freakish deflected boundary in the final over really did them in. A cruel rule for sure and there is already debate as to whether England should have been awarded 5 or 6 runs by the umpires as the second run had not been completed yet when the ball deflected off Stokes' bat.

Unlike former cricket world champions who all won by a clear run or wicket margin, this England win will always be shrouded in some controversy. That said England has been ranked no. 1 in ODIs for the best part of the past two years. So in that context they deserved to win. NZ did n't really bat well throughout the tournament. Not once did they cross 300. But their bowling and fielding (arguably the best in the world) has been top class. They make a target of 240 look like 270.
 
Robert said:
No, that’s hate for you.

You can keep drinking poison in the hope that England fans will get sick.

Or stop drinking poison and feel better.
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England won the World Cup but it was NZ who won the hearts..

Kane Williamson has earned more critical acclaim than world Cup winning captain, Eoin Morgan in this World Cup. He is an inspiration for the young lads now, not Eoin Morgan.
 
Ab Fan said:
England won the World Cup but it was NZ who won the hearts..

Kane Williamson has earned more critical acclaim than world Cup winning captain, Eoin Morgan in this World Cup. He is an inspiration for the young lads now, not Eoin Morgan.
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Given a choice between the hearts (“moral victory”) and the World Cup, I think I’d rather win the World Cup.
 
James said:
Given a choice between the hearts (“moral victory”) and the World Cup, I think I’d rather win the World Cup.
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You should be winning hearts as well by winning the WC. Its a moment of life for the cricketers. This is the tragic part of the WC.

I still say, England deserved to win the WC but they didn't deserved to win it this way.. The story should have been better.
 
Sorry, NZ deserved to win that match, and thus, the World Cup.

England was super, super lucky and as it turns out, they were inadvertently awarded an extra run that they shouldn't have been given, and to top it off, Adil Rashid should have been on strike instead of Stokes.

Congrats to them, but NZ should have been the team we are congratulating. On the day NZ was the better team.

PS. Pak would have beaten either team in the final imo.
 
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Blistering Barnacle said:
Sorry, NZ deserved to win that match, and thus, the World Cup.

England was super, super lucky and as it turns out, they were inadvertently awarded an extra run that they shouldn't have been given, and to top it off, Adil Rashid should have been on strike instead of Stokes.

Congrats to them, but NZ should have been the team we are congratulating. On the day NZ was the better team.

PS. Pak would have beaten either team in the final imo.
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You summed it up well!!
 
Such umpring decisions are part and parcel of the game. How many wides n no-balls have we seen which could have been called the other way as well........and for all we know Adil Rashid might very well have hit a boundary n won the match without taking it to the super overs.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yesterday PM <a href="https://twitter.com/theresa_may?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Theresa_May</a> hosted England's Cricket World Cup winning team at Downing Street &#55356;&#57225;&#55356;&#57295;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CWC19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CWC19</a> <a href="https://t.co/kQPHyARXX4">pic.twitter.com/kQPHyARXX4</a></p>— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) <a href="https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1151073941118734336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May hosted the World Cup-winning England cricket team in the garden of her Downing Street residence on Monday, describing their win as “one of the great sporting spectacles of our time”.

England ended their 44-year wait for a first 50-overs world title by beating New Zealand in a nailbiting final Super Over on Sunday.

May, a keen cricket fan, was at the match and, after the win, posted a video clip on Twitter of herself dancing.

The prime minister, who is due to stand down next week, greeted the players in front of her residence and posed for pictures with the team and the trophy.

“When the odds were against you in the biggest game of your lives, you simply and stubbornly refused to lose. It is that determination, that character, that has made you world champions. But, more than that, you have made history,” May told the players during the drinks reception, according to remarks released by her office.

“You have helped the nation fall in love with cricket once again,” she said, adding that the match was “a final for the ages”.
Since being unceremoniously dumped out of the 2015 edition of the tournament in Australia, the England side have reinvented themselves as one-day cricket specialists and had headed into the World Cup as overwhelming favourites.

The match, which England won by the thinnest of margins after a tie-break Super Over, was watched by more than 8 million people in Britain.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...victorious-england-cricket-team-idUSKCN1UA13V
 
Why England want to associate with that looser Teresa May god knows, they’re jinked from now on!
 
As for the nation falling in love with cricket again all the English people I’ve talked to about this they’ve been totally disinterested even though they’re world champions in any Asian country the next day would be a national holiday and everybody would be partying in the streets!
 
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