England win Cricket World Cup

Well done England

England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand

 

What a crazy day's cricket. I've watched every World Cup since 1975, fourth time (very) lucky. Exhausted, but ecstatic. Well played the Kiwis.

 

The Cockermouth kid did good

I know we won but what a great world cup this as been.

 

Irony of all ironies, Ben Stokes was born and lived in Christchurch, New Zealand, until the age of 12. His father was a NZ Rugby League player, who played for NZ (don’t know his mother’s nationality) and his parents currently live and work in Christchurch, NZ.

Thought Ben was decidedly shakey at the crease until Jos Buttler joined him and helped build a stable partnership. He came good though...

I’ve seen England win the Football World Cup, Rugby Union World Cup and now Cricket World Cup. All nail biters...Hope to see all three teams win them again...!

 

I like all sport
never any idea and cant be bothered to understand the rules but this type of cricket is good and the boundary non catch and the 4 runs off the bat when the fielder chucked it back made for a very good game

 

Well done England, now finish the season off and win the Ashes.

Graham.

 

Congratulations, England. World Cup football next time...

 

You mean New Zealand just lost against the "Rest of the World"?

 

Steve,

I was 2 years old when Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup in 1966. Why do England always require extra-time to finish the job?

 

Would you care to explain your comment?

 

One of my sons commented to me that is what he read somewhere, I cant find it. Maybe pointing out some of their heritage? Posted a bit tongue in cheek. As Shane Warne said - Shane Warne discredits England's Cricket World Cup win against New Zealand | Metro News

 

England only fielded 4 squad members that were not born in England or Wales:

Eoin Morgan - but he has an English mother, so he’s English
Jofra Archer - but he has an English father, so he’s English
Ben Stokes - has lived here since the age of 12 and learned the game here, so he’s English
Tom Curran - he qualified on residency rule

I don't particularly agree with the residency rule as it opens the door for ‘mercenaries’, but I am not the rule maker...

I believe Australia fielded 1 squad member that wasn’t born in Australia: Usman Khawaja. He was born in Pakistan, but has lived in Aus since he was 5 years of age. So he’s Australian.

 

I do see Warnie's point about yesterday, which is why I'm so glad that England beat New Zealand so straightforwardly in the group game, having basically tied the final, if you see what I mean.

 

Watched this game from a distance of 5,000 miles away and it seemed a decent enough game.. as sub 250 run games tend to be in the 300 ball format; the 350+ run home run derbies lose it for me... but I was totally confused why the outcome was decided on the number of boundaries hit.. ie less deliveries were scored off. I suppose there has to be a way to differentiate teams if you're really determined to "crown" one team as a winner and the other a loser in a tied situation but in that case why isn't/wasn't wickets "lost" used as a way to decide the winner...the football penalty shoot out seems to be a paragon of logic compared to the current cricketing way.

 

Fantastic game and what a finish. Well done lads!

 

Oh so close, yet so far! An exciting game played in the right spirit by both teams.

Jimmy is well worth a follow on Twitter, plenty of similar humour...though a wee amount of cricket knowledge maybe needed for it to make sense.

 

He stood up for his team in the same way that Archer did for England. Clever captaincy, let the young and fearless take up the mantle. He was the only batsmen to realise that if you backed away into your crease, you might be able to get the leverage required to hit a six. Stokes on the other hand kept coming forward to Trent Boult's excellent full pitch bowling, making it impossible to strike him out of the ground.

 

This is a puzzle to me. I used to watch Test Matches in the days of Aggers and Blowers, when matches were shown on BBC TV and everything was relaxed and slow paced.

This World Cup win seems to have appeared from nowhere. After the BBC channels have been clogged every day with womens football and Wimbledon, and no mention of cricket, suddenly we have won and are top dogs.

Mike

 

Aaaaah, the days of Test match cricket on the BBC. Out to work quickly at 6am, back in for the morning session at 11am. 260-4 at the end of a hard fought seven hours. Those were the days.
It is all about the money from Sky I'm afraid. Millions to invest into the junior and grass roots levels, against letting a wider audience watch the games on terrestrial telly. Quite a dilemma.