And how was that throw that deflected off the batsman for 4 allowed to count?
England really are jammy f@cking b@stards.
Nothing better than celebrating a dodgy victory and passing it off as a great one. Insufferable.
And how was that throw that deflected off the batsman for 4 allowed to count?
England really are jammy f@cking b@stards.
Poor fielding. Stokes was so wide of the crease when he dived home that there’s every chance the return would have gone for overthrows. Poor fielding too when the boy forgot to check his position and trod on the boundary rope when trying to catch Stokes’s skied effort. These are basic fielding errors caused, probably, by the adrenalin and nervous energy these guys were running on. That straightforward dropped c&b too was NZ’s own doing.
The rules are clear, and are accepted by all teams who enter the tournament, which despite my preference for the Proper Mannies’ athletic chess of a five-dayer, provided the most outrageously-exciting hour of cricket since that Sunday morning at Edgbaston in 2005.
I felt sorry for New Zealand. I thought their fielding, especially the placement of boundary-denying men inside the inner boundary, really pinned England’s shot-makers down, and I saw it going the same way as the Headingley test v Sri Lanka, which was a brilliant day out.
It’s been a terrific tournament, and now the Ashes to follow. Yas.
Last edited by 57vintage; 14-07-2019 at 11:02 PM.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...e04cff9b7cb105
Cricket World Cup 2019 final: Simon Taufel claims ‘clear mistake’ made awarding England six runs
They should be made to hand the trophy over to NZ.