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| Event | 2019 Cricket World Cup | ||||||||||||||
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| England won by boundary count | |||||||||||||||
| Date | 14 July 2019 | ||||||||||||||
| Venue | Lord's,London | ||||||||||||||
| Player of the match | Ben Stokes (Eng) | ||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Kumar Dharmasena (SL) andMarais Erasmus (SA) | ||||||||||||||
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The2019 Cricket World Cup Final was aOne Day Internationalcricket match played atLord's inLondon, on 14 July 2019 to determine the winner of the2019 Cricket World Cup. It was contested by the runners-up from the previous tournament,New Zealand, and the host nation,England. It was the fifth time Lord's had hosted theCricket World Cup Final, the most of any ground.[1]
The two teams weretied on 241 runs at the end of the match, resulting in aSuper Over being played to break the tie. On the final ball of New Zealand's Super Over, after equalling the 15 runs England managed in their over,Martin Guptill attempted to score the winning run but wasrun out byJason Roy andJos Buttler, meaning the Super Over was also tied. England won on theboundary count-back rule, having scored 26 boundaries to New Zealand's 17, thus becomingCricket World Cup winners for the first time.
It was the first time a One Day International final match required a Super Over, and subsequently the first and only time it had been decided by a boundary count. The match has been described as one of the greatest and most dramatic in the history of sport, with some analysts describing it as the greatest match in the history of cricket.[2][3][4][5]
The 2019 Cricket World Cup started on 30 May and was hosted byEngland and Wales. Ten teams played each other once in a round-robin format with the top four teams going through to the semi-finals. Fourth-placed New Zealand beat group winnersIndia in the first semi-final,[6] and England, who finished third in the group, defeated second-placedAustralia in the second.[7]
England played in their first final in 27 years,[8] their last appearance coming in1992, when they were defeated byPakistan at theMelbourne Cricket Ground. Their other appearances in the final were in1979 against theWest Indies at Lord's and1987 against Australia atEden Gardens. Despite playing in the second-highest number of finals in the World Cup after Australia, they were yet to win the trophy.[8] New Zealand played in their second final, and also their second in a row. They previously played in the2015 final but were beaten by Australia.[8]
When England reached the final, demand increased greatly for it to be shown on a free-to-air television channel in the United Kingdom. Rights holdersSky Sports agreed to allowChannel 4, who had the rights to broadcast evening highlights of the tournament, to carry the final in a simulcast (England cricket matches are notcompulsory events requiring free-to-air broadcast). However, due to an existing commitment by Channel 4 to cover the2019 British Grand Prix, the coverage switched to their sister channelMore4 during the motor racing, returning to Channel 4 after the Grand Prix had finished. It was the first time an England international match had been broadcast on free-to-air television in the UK since the2005 Ashes series.[9]
Whichever team won the match would become the first new winner of the World Cup since Sri Lanka's victory in1996. It was also the first world final with a guaranteed new winner since 1992.[10]
New Zealand retained the majority of the team that reached their maiden World Cup Final as co-hosts in 2015, althoughKane Williamson took on the captaincy followingBrendon McCullum's retirement. They finished level on 11 points with Pakistan in the round-robin stage (five wins, three losses and oneno result after their match against India was interrupted by rain), but took fourth place by virtue of a betternet run rate than Pakistan.
In the semi-finals, they were paired with India, who finished first in the round-robin stage. The match was played atOld Trafford inManchester on 9 July. With New Zealand on 211/5 after 46.1 overs, Williamson having scored 67 andRoss Taylor on the same score at the time, the match was suspended by rain and ultimately play was pushed to the reserve day the next day. Eventually finishing on 239/8, Taylor eventually out for 74, they produced a spirited bowling and fielding performance to leave India 18 runs short. Man of the MatchMatt Henry took 3/37, including openersRohit Sharma andK. L. Rahul caught for just one each andDinesh Karthik spectacularly caught byJames Neesham for 6. Meanwhile, fellow pace bowlerTrent Boult had captainVirat Kohli trapped lbw for one and top scorerRavindra Jadeja caught by Williamson for 77 when a seventh-wicket partnership looked to be swinging the match back in India's favour. Finally, Martin Guptill ran out World Cup-winning captainMS Dhoni for 50 with a direct hit to leave India with just their tail.[11]
England, by contrast, entered as the top-ranked ODI team after director of cricket and former Ashes-winning captainAndrew Strauss helped orchestrate the national team's white-ball revamp following their bowing out in the group stage in 2015. Only a handful of the players who featured in 2019, including Irish-born captainEoin Morgan, Test captainJoe Root, wicket-keeper Jos Buttler and bowling all-rounderChris Woakes, were holdovers from that team, though a good number played in the narrow defeat against the West Indies in the2016 World Twenty20 Final. Morgan was also the lone remaining member of England's2010 World Twenty20 champion team – England's only ICC world championship going into this final.
Their campaign was nearly derailed after a loss at Lord's to defending champions and arch-rivals Australia left them having to beat both India and New Zealand to guarantee their semi-final spot. They won both games and finished third in the round-robin stage with 12 points (six wins and three losses out of nine matches). They met group runners-up Australia in the second semi-final atEdgbaston on 11 July and soundly defeated them by 8 wickets to progress to the final. Key moments included Woakes havingDavid Warner caught for 9,Jofra Archer trapping captainAaron Finch lbw for agolden duck, Buttler running out Australian top scorer and former captainSteve Smith through his legs on 85 andJason Roy's 85 off 65 as England completed their chase with 107 balls to spare.[12]
On 12 July 2019, theInternational Cricket Council (ICC) named Sri LankanKumar Dharmasena and South AfricanMarais Erasmus as theon-field umpires, with AustralianRod Tucker as thethird umpire, PakistaniAleem Dar as thereserve umpire and Sri LankanRanjan Madugalle named asmatch referee.[13]
Both teams remained unchanged from their semi-final matches; New Zealand decided that the line-up that beat India against the odds would work in their favour in the final, while England's Jason Roy avoided suspension after his show of dissent in their semi-final match against Australia to open the batting for the hosts.[14]
Some early rain slightly delayed thetoss, with the match starting at 10:45, 15 minutes later than scheduled. It was feared that the rain would interfere with the match, but it cleared up quickly, although the overcast conditions and wet grass changed the dynamic of the toss. New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat first.[15][14]
Martin Guptill andHenry Nicholls opened the innings for New Zealand, with Nicholls scoring his first half-century of the tournament.[16] A further 30 runs from captain Kane Williamson, and 47 from wicket-keeperTom Latham, helped New Zealand to a total of 241/8 from their 50 overs. Chris Woakes andLiam Plunkett took three wickets each for the hosts.[17]
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Defending a middling score, the New Zealand bowlers bowled effectively, hampering England's top order, with onlyJonny Bairstow managing more than a start with 36. With the loss of their top order, England fell to 86/4 in the 24th over; however, a century partnership between Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler for the fifth wicket got them back into the game before Buttler was caught. But with five overs to play, England still required another 46 runs and the bottom order were forced to bat more aggressively. Stokes managed to farm the strike and, more crucially, score runs, leaving England needing 15 to win from the final over, two wickets still in hand. After two dot balls, Stokes hit a six into the stands at deep mid-wicket, bringing their score to 233/8.
From the third-last ball of the final over, Stokes drove the ball into mid-wicket. Guptill fielded the ball and threw it back to the striker's end as Stokes was returning to complete a second run; however, as Stokes dived for the crease, the ball deflected off his bat and to the boundary behind the wicket, resulting in four additional runs being added to the two that Stokes had run.[18] Umpire Dharamsena made an error here in awarding six runs. Law 19.8 states that in case of additional runs from overthrow, the run in progress will only be counted if the batsmen had crossed before the throw was made. This was not the case here and the correct decision should have been to award five runs and have Rashid take the strike. The final two deliveries went for a run each, but England lost their last two wickets going for a second run each time.
With the scores tied at 241, the match went to aSuper Over. Stokes and Buttler returned to the crease for England to face the bowling of Trent Boult; the pair scored 15 runs without loss, with both batsmen contributing a boundary four. For New Zealand, Guptill and James Neesham went in to face Jofra Archer, needing 16 runs to claim the title. Archer's over started badly, beginning with awide, and a steady accumulation of runs, along with a six from Neesham off the third ball, left New Zealand needing two from the final delivery. Facing his first ball of the Super Over and the last of the match, Guptill hit the ball to deep mid-wicket and tried to scamper back for the winning run, but Roy's throw in to Buttler was a good one, and Guptill was run out well short of his crease. New Zealand finished with 15 runs, the Super Over tied, but England's superior boundary count (26 to New Zealand's 17) meant they won the World Cup title for the first time in four final appearances. Stokes earned Man of the Match honours with his unbeaten 84, plus eight runs in the Super Over.[19]
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| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Martin Guptill | lbw b Woakes | 19 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 105.55 | |
| Henry Nicholls | b Plunkett | 55 | 77 | 4 | 0 | 71.42 | |
| Kane Williamson | c Buttler b Plunkett | 30 | 53 | 2 | 0 | 56.60 | |
| Ross Taylor | lbw b Wood | 15 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 48.38 | |
| Tom Latham | c sub (Vince) b Woakes | 47 | 56 | 2 | 1 | 83.92 | |
| James Neesham | c Root b Plunkett | 19 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 76.00 | |
| Colin de Grandhomme | c sub (Vince) b Woakes | 16 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| Mitchell Santner | not out | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| Matt Henry | b Archer | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| Trent Boult | not out | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Lockie Ferguson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (lb 12, w 17, nb 1) | 30 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets; 50 overs) | 241 | 14 | 2 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1/29 (Guptill, 6.2 ov), 2/103 (Williamson, 22.4 ov), 3/118 (Nicholls, 26.5 ov), 4/141 (Taylor, 33.1 ov), 5/173 (Neesham, 39 ov), 6/219 (De Grandhomme, 46.5 ov), 7/232 (Latham, 48.3 ov), 8/240 (Henry, 49.3 ov)
 England bowling[27] | |||||||
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| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Chris Woakes | 9 | 0 | 37 | 3 | 4.11 | 4 | 2 |
| Jofra Archer | 10 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 4.20 | 5 | 0 |
| Liam Plunkett | 10 | 0 | 42 | 3 | 4.20 | 0 | 0 |
| Mark Wood | 10 | 1 | 49 | 1 | 4.90 | 2 | 0 |
| Adil Rashid | 8 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 4.87 | 5 | 0 |
| Ben Stokes | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 6.66 | 2 | 0 |
| England batting[27] | |||||||
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| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Jason Roy | c Latham b Henry | 17 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 85.00 | |
| Jonny Bairstow | b Ferguson | 36 | 55 | 7 | 0 | 65.45 | |
| Joe Root | c Latham b De Grandhomme | 7 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 23.33 | |
| Eoin Morgan | c Ferguson b Neesham | 9 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 40.90 | |
| Ben Stokes | not out | 84 | 98 | 5 | 2 | 85.71 | |
| Jos Buttler | c sub (Southee) b Ferguson | 59 | 60 | 6 | 0 | 98.33 | |
| Chris Woakes | c Latham b Ferguson | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Liam Plunkett | c Boult b Neesham | 10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Jofra Archer | b Neesham | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Adil Rashid | run out (Santner/Boult) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Mark Wood | run out (Neesham/Boult) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 3, w 12) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out; 50 overs) | 241 | 22 | 2 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1/28 (Roy, 5.4 ov), 2/59 (Root, 16.3 ov), 3/71 (Bairstow, 19.3 ov), 4/86 (Morgan, 23.1 ov), 5/196 (Buttler, 44.5 ov), 6/203 (Woakes, 46.1 ov), 7/220 (Plunkett, 48.3 ov), 8/227 (Archer, 49 ov), 9/240 (Rashid, 49.5 ov), 10/241 (Wood, 50 ov)
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| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Trent Boult | 10 | 0 | 67 | 0 | 6.70 | 2 | 0 |
| Matt Henry | 10 | 2 | 40 | 1 | 4.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Colin de Grandhomme | 10 | 2 | 25 | 1 | 2.50 | 1 | 0 |
| Lockie Ferguson | 10 | 0 | 50 | 3 | 5.00 | 3 | 0 |
| James Neesham | 7 | 0 | 43 | 3 | 6.14 | 1 | 0 |
| Mitchell Santner | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3.66 | 1 | 0 |
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The closeness of the match, with scores being level even after the end of the Super Over and England claiming the tie-breaker by having scored more boundaries throughout the match, combined with the dramatic turn of events in the final hour and the fact that it was played as a Cricket World Cup Final, led to many former and active players, analysts and media outlets describing it as the greatest cricket match ever played.[28] Former England one-day bowlerStuart Broad called it "the best white ball game of all time".[29] England players Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow declared the World Cup Final as "the greatest game ever".[30]
The Guardian's live commentator wrote: "That is the most amazing game I have ever seen in my life."[14]The Sydney Morning Herald called it "one of the most dramatic clashes in cricket history",[31] whileABC News referred to it as "the greatest ODI ever played".[32] The headline ofThe Week was "Super human Ben Stokes drags England to victory in the greatest cricket match".[33] WithNovak Djokovic andRoger Federer contesting theWimbledon Championships'longest ever singles final (which finished during the World Cup Final), andLewis Hamilton winning theBritish Grand Prix on the same day, it was referred to as a "golden sporting Sunday".[34]
Umpire Kumar Dharmasena's decision to award England six runs following an overthrow boundary in the final over was criticised by former international umpireSimon Taufel, who said it was an "error in judgment" and a "clear mistake" by the on-field umpires.[35] Law 19.8 of theLaws of Cricket says "If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be: any runs for penalties awarded to either side; the allowance for the boundary; and the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act." As Stokes andAdil Rashid had not crossed at the moment the New Zealand fielder threw the ball, it was suggested that England should only have been awarded one completed run in addition to the overthrow boundary.[36] Dharmasena later admitted this was an error, though said he would "never regret the decision".[37][38][39] As a result of the incident, theMarylebone Cricket Club said it would review the overthrow rule.[40][41] Some active and former players criticised the ICC rule of boundary count and not using the wicket count for a tied match.[42] In the wake of the result of the final, the ICC scrapped the boundary count rule; teams will instead play as many Super Overs as are necessary until the one team wins.[43]
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, said that despite the loss she felt "incredibly proud of the Black Caps, and I hope every New Zealander does because they played remarkable cricket".[44] The New Zealand cricket coach,Gary Stead, said that sharing the World Cup is something that "should be considered".[45]
"Prince Philip and I send our warmest congratulations to theEngland Men's Cricket Team after such a thrilling victory in today’s World Cup Final."
In the wake of England's victory, the nation erupted into a state of national pride and celebrations that lasted into the night and most of the next day. The England team stayed at Lord's for most of the night celebrating. The next day, the team hosted an event atThe Oval, inviting fans to meet and greet the team, and pose and take photos with the trophy.[48]
British Prime MinisterTheresa May invited the England team to10 Downing Street the day after the victory to celebrate and offer her congratulations. Former Conservative Prime MinisterSir John Major, himself a formerSurrey County Cricket Club President and honorary life vice-president, was also in attendance.[49] In December, Stokes was also namedBBC Sports Personality of the Year, making him the first cricketer to win it sinceAndrew Flintoff in 2005. In the subsequent New Year's Honours List, six England players and staff receivedOrder of the British Empire decorations: CBEs for Morgan and ECB chairman Colin Graves, OBEs for Stokes and coach Trevor Bayliss and MBEs for Buttler and Root.[50]
The match was the first international cricket match to be broadcast on free-to-air TV in the United Kingdom since the 2005 Ashes series. 8.3 million viewers tuned in to see the final, making it one of the most viewed broadcasts of the year, with the highest audience share since the2018 FIFA World Cup semi-Final between Croatia and England and the2012 Summer Olympics in London.[51]
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