Few days back World witnessed 48 tough matches of cricket played amongst 10 teams to win the most important World Cup Title. Played after every four years each team was desperate to scribble their name on the World Cup trophy resulting in only one winner.
England for the first time became World Cup Champions after 44 years of longing but New Zealand also won the hearts in the losing cause. A country invented a sport but couldn’t grab it while other nations have, how embarrassing was that. England have been trolled multiple times and in 2015 they faced a humiliating exit from the group stage after defeating to Bangla Tigers.
England has finally been victorious in a World Cup final, and as they say, "it's come home". New Zealand suffered another heartbreak as they go down fighting in their second consecutive World Cup final, and heart goes out to Kiwis, for the splendid show in the tournament.
In the Super Over, England batted first and the duo of Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler made 15 runs, and New Zealand also ended at the same score but for the loss of one wicket, paving the way for an English victory on boundary count. More than England winning the title Buzz was for the dumb rule by ICC that the team with more boundaries wins the World Cup. Cricketers, current and former all over the world slammed the rule as “absurd”. However, it was Kane Williamson, captain of New Zealand who won many hearts as he was very graceful, cool and calm. “At the end of the day nothing separated us, no one lost the final, but there was a crowned winner and there it is,” said Williamson. I can’t think of a cool captain as he is even at the crucial stage of the match where he accepted those four overthrows.
Talking about the so-called “absurd” rule by ICC wherein team wins with the most boundaries there were few more tweets even from the Bollywood Celebrities. Sir Amitabh Bachchan tweeted “ A person with 4 notes of Rupees 500 each is more richer than with a single 2000 note”.
However, rather than this rule to be blamed questions arises on the management part of all the Cricket Boards and ICC. The rules weren’t made on the match day . Both the teams had signed on the rules and regulations before the tournament had started. Then why to blame ICC? Rather to blame ICC , all the Cricket Boards are questionable who agreed upon to sign these flouted rules and failed miserably. It looked like as if all the teams, ICC, Boards didn’t think it could happen in the most important World Cup Final that both the teams are tied at the end of the Super Over. Moreover, it looked like ICC thought in order to make one team winner they made this rule in rush and never thought of extreme point. Overall it was bad management from both the Boards and ICC.
However, in the end, as stated by Kane Williamson “No one lost the final”. It was England who emerged victorious for the first time and New Zealand won millions of hearts.
