CWC Final - Black Caps v England
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@Sneakdefreak wouldnt have been if we had won
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Well fullas and fullesses it was a wild ride. I couldn’t post during our bowling, was on the edge of my couch.
I can’t really fault our effort or even our decisions. Guppy faced one ball in the super over, can’t be too critical there. Some of our lower order batters faced some damn good bowling.
We bowled so well in the conditions and under the pressure of an away final.
Congrats to England.
The drama of sport wins out again.
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It feels very weird - still pondering that deflection off Stokes' bat and the fact that it took it from 7 off 2 balls to 3 off 2 balls. Cannot remember every seeing that over many years of watching cricket and the fact that it happened at that stage of a World Cup final is just bizarre.
And Trent - don't step back bro
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Also, I'm so proud of this team. We missed out by the tiniest of margins and so it's super tempting to rehash a thousand moments and ask what if, but I think that's the wrong attitude to take. I love this team and I'm stoked at what they've achieved.
Still hurts like hell to have come so close and not got there but sometimes that's how it breaks.
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Absolutely great game to be at.
Only just saw replay of double hit for 6. If that is in the rules it should be changed.
England were second best, but owing to a sequence of rule oddities have their name on the trophy.
Feel like Black Caps deserve a ticker tape.
So proud.
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@KiwiPie said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
It feels very weird - still pondering that deflection off Stokes' bat and the fact that it took it from 7 off 2 balls to 3 off 2 balls. Cannot remember every seeing that over many years of watching cricket and the fact that it happened at that stage of a World Cup final is just bizarre.
And Trent - don't step back bro
That deflection was almost hand of god-ish in its game turning fortunes.
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@Mokey said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
I think I would have been ok losing in a second super over, bowl off, wickets, higher place in the round robin etc. But number of boundaries is fucking stupid. How you get runs shouldn't determine a World Cup final.
Or who won the game in the group stages.
Which of course would have screwed us but would be more fair.
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@mofitzy_ said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@JC
You can't point at any one thing. England got the rub of the green many times, both in luck and by the umpire.Should have been Kane needling a 4 rather than Guppy running himself out...
I didn't get to see the whole match - what was the rub of the green from the umpires?
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@Nevorian said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@mofitzy_ said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@JC
You can't point at any one thing. England got the rub of the green many times, both in luck and by the umpire.Should have been Kane needling a 4 rather than Guppy running himself out...
I didn't get to see the whole match - what was the rub of the green from the umpires?
Some of it was self inflicted. Nicholls and Guppy blew our review when he was plumb lbw, which had a flow on effect when Erasmus gave Rosco out LBW off a ball that looked high in real time and we had no review. He also gave Roy not out lbw first or second ball, DRS was about 1cm from over turning but went to refs call
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well, shit aye.
I'm actually not sure how to feel. We can't even fall back on being beaten by a better side on the day. Because we weren't beaten.
Get my rant in. What fuckwit came up with most boundaries as the 2nd tie-breaker? Effectively England have been handed the cup for having less scoring shots than us? In what way is that a good measurement? Get absolutely fucked. I am not having that. Celebrate you pommy (UN) fucks, we all know it feels hollow.
Two bad pieces of luck in the last couple of overs. But that overthrow 6 is about as unlucky as you can possibly get. Right there you know it is not your day. Fucking hell.
I thought we were 30 runs short, turns out we were one. Imagine if we didn't duck under the last ball of the innings?
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On the selections for the super over, i think they got it bang on, those are the two i would have gone with. Our two best power hitters who can go from the first ball. Guptill is also really quick between the wickets. And they damn near pulled it off.
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@mariner4life said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
well, shit aye.
I'm actually not sure how to feel. We can't even fall back on being beaten by a better side on the day. Because we weren't beaten.
Get my rant in. What fuckwit came up with most boundaries as the 2nd tie-breaker? Effectively England have been handed the cup for having less scoring shots than us? In what way is that a good measurement? Get absolutely fucked. I am not having that. Celebrate you pommy (UN) fucks, we all know it feels hollow.
Two bad pieces of luck in the last couple of overs. But that overthrow 6 is about as unlucky as you can possibly get. Right there you know it is not your day. Fucking hell.
I thought we were 30 runs short, turns out we were one. Imagine if we didn't duck under the last ball of the innings?
After round one we beat SL by ten wickets and the Windies beat Pakistan by seven. They went to the top of the table when I reckon we should have.
Why do the organisers not seem to give a fuck about wickets lost in the overall scheme of things ? it should be the most important part of any complicated cricket equation.
