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Was the 2019 World Cup final the greatest game of ODI cricket ever?

NO.

It was the greatest sports game of all time.

To do this in a final of a massive sport, wowwowoowow
 
Most competitive cricket final I have ever seen. WHAT A MATCH! What an end to a tournament. Crazy scenes all around. Fantastic. I hope this really kicks off the popularity of cricket in England and leads to the more people interested into the game.
 
What a last ball from Archer.
Super stuff
Unbelievable scenes.

Congrats England, the best ODI team in the world.

However, I do get the feeling that when people talk about this particular match a lot will say "England was the luckier side".

NZ deserve all the respect for being super in the final.
 
Amazing game!!!
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He couldn't get back for two.

This has been a magnificent game of cricket. I have not seen anything like this, nor do I have the words to even do justice to this final.
 
Easily no other match comes close.

Aus Vs SA 99 SF
Aus Vs SA (434 chase)

These two come distant 2nd and 3rd.
 
It is the greatest game in all of sport that I have seen.

But NZ, they must be heartbroken. They deserved it, they did.
 
Haven’t lived since cricket was born but this match will definitely be in the memories of many who haven’t watched cricket at all before this.
 
Greatest sports game I've ever witnessed. My top 3 are:

1) 2019 Cricket World Cup Final (England v New Zealand)
2) 2005 Champions League Final (Liverpool v AC Milan)
3) 2007 Wimbledon Final (Federer v Nadal)
 
I mean you can argue about the technical aspects of the cricket on view, but in terms of drama, honestly I cannot think of anything that beats this.
 
Greatest ever. Finally there is a game that beat the AUS vs SA 99 SF in drama
 
cricketfan11 said:
What a last ball from Archer.
Super stuff
Unbelievable scenes.

Congrats England, the best ODI team in the world.

However, I do get the feeling that when people talk about this particular match a lot will say "England was the luckier side".

NZ deserve all the respect for being super in the final.
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The last ball was a leg stump half volley. Guptill is a mental midget
 
a real shame that stupid boring tennis will make the international headlines instead of this

i feel sorry for those who did not witness this final
 
Biggest heartbreaks I had in World Cup in recent times:-

2019- Ind vs NZ
2015- SA vs NZ
2019- Eng vs NZ

My favourite teams had been:-

1. India
2. South Africa
3. New Zealand
 
It was the best World Cup game I have seen in my life. Tied game and tied super over. It doesn't get any better.
 
Yup, this was the greatest cricket match i have ever witnessed. Anyone who disagree is just being ridiculous

Before this game, that SOuth Africa chase agianst Australia was the greatest, but this game, these scenarios are such one could only dream about, and that in a world cup final
 
Yes! World Cup final tied, super over tied, what more could you ask for?
 
sindhiboy said:
a real shame that stupid boring tennis will make the international headlines instead of this

i feel sorry for those who did not witness this final
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True but that's because Tennis has more familiarity all around the world while cricket is complex.
 
Never thought a match would come close to the sa vs aus semi in 99 with all these high scoring mickey mouse pitches in the modern era, but this is a comfortable second best.

Unbelievable game and I would be crying right now if I were a new zealand fan.
 
Not just the beat game of Cricket but arguably the best among the history of all Sports.
 
i dont care what old school 90s lovers have to say, this is no doubt the greatest wc final in history
 
This isn’t just the greatest cricket match of all time but one of the greatest matches in sport history.
 
What can be a better game than this really??

World Cup Final
Lord's ground
Tied game
Super Over tied

What else you want?? This is the greatest ever and I certainly don't see anything toppling that in history of the cricketing sports..
 
Since I saw Australasia cup final as a kid with Miandad last ball six, this final will be the no 2 greatest cricket match I ever saw.
 
It is definitely the best World Cup game I have seen in my life. However, I would not call it best ODI game. South Africa vs Australia in 2006 was better (South Africa chased down 430+).
 
Absolutely not.

It was one of the dumbest final I have ever witness.

Rules were vague.

Score was 241/10 eng
241/8 NZ

England were all out at the end of the 50 overs, it shouldn't have gone in to super over.

Now Please do not come back with they drew the game before an attempt to win. England were all out at the end of 50 overs.
 
It was the most horrible final ever in any sport the match ended as a tie and England is awarded the cup.

This was a joke by ICC and cricket rules maker that robbed two incredible team and top quality players a deserving victory.
 
CricFan2012 said:
NO.

It was the greatest sports game of all time.

To do this in a final of a massive sport, wowwowoowow
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Agreed!

The downside of this fantastic game is that every WC final from now will be comparatively tame. Tied on 241 after 300 balls. Tied on 256 after 306 balls. What are the odds?
 
One of the best games ever.
However, Eng winning on boundaries was anticlimactic.
 
dhump said:
It was the most horrible final ever in any sport the match ended as a tie and England is awarded the cup.

This was a joke by ICC and cricket rules maker that robbed two incredible team and top quality players a deserving victory.
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No less fair than all those Word Cup Football games that end with penalty shootouts.
 
Ab Fan said:
What can be a better game than this really??

World Cup Final
Lord's ground
Tied game
Super Over tied

What else you want?? This is the greatest ever and I certainly don't see anything toppling that in history of the cricketing sports..
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I also wanted the required run rate to tie the game before the last over to be an almost impossible 14 against a top bowler. Oh wait, we got that too :)

Watching it in an English pub (in the US) with crazy English supporters while having a pint of Boddingtons made it super perfect.
 
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Napa said:
No less fair than all those Word Cup Football games that end with penalty shootouts.
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A difference of day and night they don't decide the winner based on which team made most attempts on the goal but until the match is won.
 
dhump said:
A difference of day and night they don't decide the winner based on which team made most attempts on the goal but until the match is won.
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I don't think you quite know the real rule of WC penalty shootouts. As Lineker famously said "Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the [team of your flag] always win." Sort of makes sense why you think penalty shootouts are fair :))

Jokes apart, as long as the rules are known beforehand and the outcome is not decided by the toss of a coin, it is all fair.
 
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topspin said:
Greatest sports game I've ever witnessed. My top 3 are:

1) 2019 Cricket World Cup Final (England v New Zealand)
2) 2005 Champions League Final (Liverpool v AC Milan)
3) 2007 Wimbledon Final (Federer v Nadal)
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Fix point 3 mate. It’s the Federer vs Djokovic 2019 Wimbledon.

Two of the greatest matches played on the same day
 
topspin said:
Greatest sports game I've ever witnessed. My top 3 are:

1) 2019 Cricket World Cup Final (England v New Zealand)
2) 2005 Champions League Final (Liverpool v AC Milan)
3) 2007 Wimbledon Final (Federer v Nadal)
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2008*
 
Sidilicious said:
Fix point 3 mate. It’s the Federer vs Djokovic 2019 Wimbledon.

Two of the greatest matches played on the same day
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I meant to say 2008 Wimbledon Final, so I'm assuming you didn't watch it? If you didn't refer to the following FYI:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/06/SPP711KSLR.DTL

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/2305019/Wimbledon-2008-John-McEnroe-hails-Rafael-Nadal-victory-as-greatest-final-ever.html

http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2015/12/2008-nadal-beats-federer-greatest-match-all-time/56955/

Unlike today's game, Federer and Nadal were at their prime.
 
Napa said:
No less fair than all those Word Cup Football games that end with penalty shootouts.
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If we think of Super Over as equivalent to Penalty shootouts, winner here was decided by Number of Boundaries. In football terms it means winner was decided by possession time. Unheard of.

I think Schumacher once won an F1 race by 0.01 second margin over Barrichello. Narrowest of Margins.
 
It was the greatest cricket match ever, the greatest cricket final ever and, from those which I´ve witnessed, it was the greatest sports match of all times!

My father is otherwise a very calm man and he doesn´t take all these things too seriously, but his blood pressure shot up by the end of the match. :))

The only thing which was missing from the ODI World Cup history was a final like this. The 1987 Final too was pretty good but this one is stuff of dreams.

Also, the greatest ODI World Cup ever! Great, thrilling and nail-biting pitches, no minnow-bashing and "Weak matches", a great tournament format, excellent pitches which assisted bowlers and a great Semi-Final as well as a breath-taking Final like this. Thank you ICC and to everyone involved behind the scene! Thank you cricket for a few weeks of brilliant cricket. Just what I required at this stage of my life: a break from all the fatiguing activities and stress in life, thanks to a great tournament like this. Hugely grateful to Allah that He made me witness all this. :)
 
Napa said:
I don't think you quite know the real rule of WC penalty shootouts. As Lineker famously said "Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the [team of your flag] always win." Sort of makes sense why you think penalty shootouts are fair :))

Jokes apart, as long as the rules are known beforehand and the outcome is not decided by the toss of a coin, it is all fair.
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Please enlighten me what I don't know about penalty shoot out and how this is comparable to that. Also please tell me what the rule is when initial 5-5 penalties end up in a draw?

Also, if this is a fair rule that means wickets hold no value? Every jurisdiction should keep the vital fact in mind that players can influence the outcome with their effort in that time and not something they should have kept in mind before the situation was there.
 
Corridor of Uncertainty said:
Since I saw Australasia cup final as a kid with Miandad last ball six, this final will be the no 2 greatest cricket match I ever saw.
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lol touche. For me that miandad six final is the greatest ODI ive ever seen. This was the greatest WC final ever. one of the greatest sports finals ever. and for me the joint greatest ODI ever..I cant put it second..it was too damn good.
 
Mentioning greatest cricket matches, I think that people are seriously overlooking the Semi-Final between New Zealand and South Africa from World Cup 2015. My heart almost stopped that morning. I'll never forget the six that Elliot hit to seal the game. Wow!
 
dhump said:
Please enlighten me what I don't know about penalty shoot out and how this is comparable to that. Also please tell me what the rule is when initial 5-5 penalties end up in a draw?

Also, if this is a fair rule that means wickets hold no value? Every jurisdiction should keep the vital fact in mind that players can influence the outcome with their effort in that time and not something they should have kept in mind before the situation was there.
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The joke was you will like penalty shootouts because Germany never loses one. Its record in WC penalty shootouts is 4-0.

It hasn't lost a penalty shootout in 43 years, other countries can complain that is not fair as the game is supposed to be about being able to score goals from the field and not from the penalty spot.

https://www.the42.ie/germany-40-year-penalty-record-euro-2016-talking-points-2859078-Jul2016/
 
Napa said:
The joke was you will like penalty shootouts because Germany never loses one. Its record in WC penalty shootouts is 4-0.

It hasn't lost a penalty shootout in 43 years, other countries can complain that is not fair as the game is supposed to be about being able to score goals from the field and not from the penalty spot.

https://www.the42.ie/germany-40-year-penalty-record-euro-2016-talking-points-2859078-Jul2016/
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That is skill my dear that German teams are good at it.

Orignal point was comparing shoot out with winning by more boundaries.
 
DHONI183 said:
It was the greatest cricket match ever, the greatest cricket final ever and, from those which I´ve witnessed, it was the greatest sports match of all times!

My father is otherwise a very calm man and he doesn´t take all these things too seriously, but his blood pressure shot up by the end of the match. :))

The only thing which was missing from the ODI World Cup history was a final like this. The 1987 Final too was pretty good but this one is stuff of dreams.....
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Having said all that, I think we should never overlook the World T20 Final 2016 and 2007. The latter was a thrilling Indo-Pak Final, which requires no further commentary I guess. As for the former, Brathwaite´s sixes to seal an almost impossible match is the greatest piece of brilliance that I´ve seen not only in a cricket global event final, but in sports overall I´d say.

ICC Champions Trophy Final 2004 and 2013 too were brilliant matches. Very thrilling and exciting. The 2013 Final had so many twists and turns till the very last ball. However, I think we´d all agree that the Final from Sunday has holds no comparison with any other sports final ever.
 
It's gotta be up there, because of all the crazy unpredictable stuff that happened. That deflected 4 is one of the strangest things I've ever seen in all of my years watching cricket
 
Nearly a week later and the unreality of that World Cup final has not sunk in. In all my years of watching cricket, I have NEVER seen so many sliding doors moments in one game, from the ricochet to the boundary off Stokes' bat and the fateful decision to award six runs, Boult fluffing a catch on the boundary, Santner ducking the last ball, Guptill's review that meant Taylor couldn't review his LBW, Roy not being given out, Archer's first ball of the Super Over called a wide, and so on.

After an underwhelming marketing campaign, the 2019 World Cup needed the final to deliver as a spectacle, to be the BEST possible showcase of the sport and all it's intricacies. And it was. The recipe for the perfect cricket match includes ingredients such as tension slowly building over the course of seven hours to a nerve wracking finale; a healthy serving of twists and turns; a SPORTING pitch; individual brilliance and outstanding athleticism. To top it off, the backdrop of Lord's - the Home of Cricket. If anything it was the antithesis to The Hundred tournament the ECB has foolishly exhausted its reserves with.

What's so heartwarming is how many people tuned in and emotionally invested in the game including those who had never seen a single ball of cricket.

Cricket since 2005 when all live England internationals went behind a paywall made the sport inaccessible to millions of working class households. It caused participation and viewing figures to plummet, with the nation unable to enjoy the communal viewing experience that FTA sport provides. Most kids born after the 2005 Ashes couldn't pick Ben Stokes or Jos Buttler out of a lineup.

This final will change that. I've read so many stories online of how kids are now picking up a bat and ball. You CANNOT put a price on that, nor let bitterness however understandable given NZ lost on an arcane technicality, cloud the fact this was a shot in the arm cricket desperately needed.

It was also the short in the arm a deeply divided country needed. At each others throats since the 2016 Brexit referendum, this country enjoyed a rare unifying moment. Enjoy it while it lasts, to the sound of Ian Smith's majestic voice:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tc_wIz8_qiQ" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 
Markhor said:
Nearly a week later and the unreality of that World Cup final has not sunk in. In all my years of watching cricket, I have NEVER seen so many sliding doors moments in one game, from the ricochet to the boundary off Stokes' bat and the fateful decision to award six runs, Boult fluffing a catch on the boundary, Santner ducking the last ball, Guptill's review that meant Taylor couldn't review his LBW, Roy not being given out, Archer's first ball of the Super Over called a wide, and so on.

After an underwhelming marketing campaign, the 2019 World Cup needed the final to deliver as a spectacle, to be the BEST possible showcase of the sport and all it's intricacies. And it was. The recipe for the perfect cricket match includes ingredients such as tension slowly building over the course of seven hours to a nerve wracking finale; a healthy serving of twists and turns; a SPORTING pitch; individual brilliance and outstanding athleticism. To top it off, the backdrop of Lord's - the Home of Cricket. If anything it was the antithesis to The Hundred tournament the ECB has foolishly exhausted its reserves with.

What's so heartwarming is how many people tuned in and emotionally invested in the game including those who had never seen a single ball of cricket.

Cricket since 2005 when all live England internationals went behind a paywall made the sport inaccessible to millions of working class households. It caused participation and viewing figures to plummet, with the nation unable to enjoy the communal viewing experience that FTA sport provides. Most kids born after the 2005 Ashes couldn't pick Ben Stokes or Jos Buttler out of a lineup.

This final will change that. I've read so many stories online of how kids are now picking up a bat and ball. You CANNOT put a price on that, nor let bitterness however understandable given NZ lost on an arcane technicality, cloud the fact this was a shot in the arm cricket desperately needed.

It was also the short in the arm a deeply divided country needed. At each others throats since the 2016 Brexit referendum, this country enjoyed a rare unifying moment. Enjoy it while it lasts, to the sound of Ian Smith's majestic voice:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tc_wIz8_qiQ" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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That guy at 3:44 looks like our [MENTION=1842]James[/MENTION]! He does, trust me!

Also, the video has captured some wonderful, wonderful reactions. :)
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The greatest game ever played.. <a href="https://t.co/Yk6xNi2sNm">https://t.co/Yk6xNi2sNm</a></p>— Eoin Morgan (@Eoin16) <a href="https://twitter.com/Eoin16/status/1152909022519091201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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