wasteyouryouth
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We gave cricket to the world and they gave us the players to win the World Cup.
ICC Cricket World Cup - May/July 2019
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NILAYSHAH60
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And yeah the teams in the past actually comprehensively beat their opposition in the Final. Be it the great West Indies team of the 70's, Australian team of late 90s & 2000s, Pakistan rising from the Ashes in 1992, India breaking the jinx of not winning the WC for 28 years or upset by India and Sri Lanka in 1983 & 1996 Finals respectively. Also I've got no problem in saying that England are the World Champions and they deserve it after their hardwork in last 4 years but rating this victory along with the victory of other World Champions doesn't seem to be right. To conclude to that England going on to win the WC after being knocked out by Bangladesh in 2015 WC is one of the greatest comebacks in the history of the game.
A.P Haux
The Meowest Avenger
Yorkshireman
Club Captain
What the absolute f*ck? Absolutely ludicrous statement.
NILAYSHAH60
Dreamcatcher
I don't know why English fans are reacting so much. Everyone can have their opinions so as did I. And that abuse shows what manners do you have ! Don't know whether you've got enough maturity to be on this board or not.
wasteyouryouth
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Personally, I felt sharing the trophy, after a tie after 50 overs and super over, would have been a just way for it to end. I think every other World Cup until this one sharing the trophy would have happened after 50 overs. But under the rules England won. It doesn't mean the rules in place are good or the right rules but everyone knew them before the start of the game and the start of the super over.
Yorkshireman
Club Captain
Abuse!!!
. So saying your post is ludicrous is abuse is it? Fook me. Surely a mature adult wouldn’t scream abuse at such a soft comment like man. I think I’ve come to the wrong place haha.
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Dutch
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Well you did say you might be criticized for it. Look there is no doubt that England rode there luck. But they won. Whether it is a tie or not or whatever they won according to the rules everyone agreed to going into the tournament.
Yes it would have been nice if we had won with 120 balls to spare with Jason Roy on an amazing 153 not out off 72 balls. But we didn't. The greatest cricket game that has ever been played took place yesterday. Every single ingredient necessary to make that the greatest cricket game ever was present.
Skill, luck, misfortune, mistakes, close-calls....every element was present for that to happen. I can seriously and honestly say that if NZ had won I wouldn't have begrudged them it one bit even if they rode their luck just as much as England did. And they did ride their luck too in their own way.
To say after one day that England might be getting too much credit for winning the darn thing compared to other winners is for me just a nonsensical statement and indeed not a valid point of discussion.
If people were saying England is the greatest winner of the World Cup ever, I would understand it. But they are not: they are saying England scraped home by the skin of their testicles after the greatest rollercoaster ever, against an opponent who had just as much stake to lifting the trophy as they did.
The raw emotion, the joy, the heartbreak, the absolute madness of what happened needs to be the joyous core of what we take from this game and what all cricket fans, sports fans, fans of human endeavor should be talking about.
Cricket won, human beings and their compassion and care and genius won.....and England after all the dust settled lifted the trophy, as a small part of that whole drama. Amen.
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NILAYSHAH60
Dreamcatcher
In case you suffer from a short term memory!
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Dutch
Guest
He wasn't abusing you. He was stating incredulation at your statement. That is allowed on a public discussion forum.
Yorkshireman
Club Captain
Your taking offence to the word ‘fuck’. How odd. You obviously don’t understand the word or the context it’s used in or was used in.
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Dutch
Guest
See my post above. Lets try and leave this now.
NILAYSHAH60
Dreamcatcher
Yes, then Dharmesana, Erasmus, Tucker, Aleem Dar were all from England right? Can't you see that Ben stokes didn't complete the run and the ball hit the bat before the completion of the run. If you dont know let me tell you that when its a four or a six, batsmen running between the wickets dont count as runs (only the four or six does). Pretty shameful that you're saying that an experienced umpire is biased. You won the world cup, Congrats.
Yorkshireman
Club Captain
I was sort of joking with the bitter Australian comment, so let’s leave it at that. It possibly should’ve been 5 runs. But who knows maybe Rashid could’ve done it, or hit a different shot to win the game. Or we could’ve easily lost. All what ifs.
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