Once in four years ICC organize a
grand event called World Cup to decide who the champion team among all is.
The ten best teams of the world compete
with each other for almost 2 months and then the best two
among them play a final to get
their hands on the trophy. We have had seen many close
encounters, but we have never
seen something that happened in Lords on Sunday, 14th July,
2019.
It was a world cup final between
the two best teams of tournament who reached there, beating
the current world champions
Australia and the number one team from league stage- India.
England and New Zealand were
playing finals looking for their first ever world cup title.
Everyone have chosen their side
for winning but no one knew that none of the side would lose
this one!
Usually when we talk about finals
one team freezes under the pressure. Yesterday neither team
did that! It was a final in which
both teams gave their hundred percent, as a result of which
both teams ended up scoring same
total in the end, which means match was tied and super
over needs to be played to decide
the winner between them. They played again, and result was
same this time as well- a tie,
but England won the world cup! Wonder how? By ICC rules!!
Looking at the way these two
teams played top class match, probably the best in the history of
cricket, the flaws in the ICC
rules came into radar. Here are the few which will remain a matter
of discussion until an amendment
is made
1. New Zealand scored 241 for 8. England
were all out 241. Having lost 2 wickets less, NZ could have
been declared the winner. There
was no question of having a super over.
2. Both teams scored equal runs
in super over but winner was decided on the basis of who
scored more boundaries in the
match. The silliness of this rule got realized when the
cost for losing the match was a
world cup trophy. The most fair outcome in this situation
should be a shared trophy or a
continuation of super over until we get a definite winner.
3. There should be a rule when
someone especially batsman unintentionally gets his bat
on the ball while ball is
travelling on the field. Because that unintentional bat on ball
actually decided the fate of the
match.
4. A blunder pointed out by
cricket's best umpire that there was an error of judgment in
umpiring. The 6 runs that were
awarded for the over through should have been 5, since
batsmen didn't crossed at the
time of throw.
People often say the rules are already agreed upon at the start, but the worst case scenario
seems to be written in hurry, and
nobody cared what if it will ever happen, that too in a world cup
final!!! The rules seemed
illogical looking at the gob-smacked cricket displayed by the two
teams, as a result of which, the
cup is with England but the World is with New Zealand.
