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Decent match, with a very exciting finish! Couldn't have been any better.
The England Cricket Thread
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Soldato
That 6 when he stepped on the rope and that 6 when it hit stokes, so much drama and then a super over.
Soldato
The Ben Stokes Red Bull ad just gave me goosebumps
As a cricket newbie, can someone explain why if one team is all out and one team, is not all out, why is that a draw?
Scores after 50 overs were equal, but one team still had players left, when the other had no one left.
That to me, means team with people left has done better.
Scores after 50 overs were equal, but one team still had players left, when the other had no one left.
That to me, means team with people left has done better.
Those are the rules. It is arbitrary like any other rule.
If the rules were that wickets fallen count, then England wouldn't have carelessly thrown away 2 wickets at the end chasing the extra winning run.
Soldato
That's like asking if a football match is drawn, but one side had a man sent off, why didn't they lose.
Soldato
Ben Stokes just said in an interview that even he didn't know that rule!
Super overs are common in the IPL, so that is wierd.
edit:
Has even happend in international T20 games involving England before.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Over
Soldato
You'd think he would know.
He said he only found out what would happen if the super over was a tie, was when he heard it over the tannoy!
Soldato
They'd know the rule about the super over in the event of a tie but I bet you very few if any of them knew if the super over was a tie it went back to boundaries in the 50 overs.
Perhaps they should then.
Maybe loosing a player should equal loosing a goal or two, perhaps that would stop some of the professional fouls.
Soldato
Plus the boundaries scored in the super over.
Perhaps they could. But those aren't the rules.
Rules are arbitrary. It's silly to ask why it isn't another way. The person that created the rules, simply didn't do it that way.
You could equally say, why not use number of boundaries as a tiebreaker instead of using a super over.
In football, drawing lots is an acceptable tiebreaker in certain scenarios.
Soldato
Strauss with a Leprechaun reference for Morgan
Soldato
Strauss with a Leprechaun reference for Morgan
I missed that, what did he say?
Caporegime
That's the greatest sporting event I've ever witnessed. The number of unlikely events stacking up is unheard of.
Caporegime
Unlucky NZ 
. Was hoping they would win it but not to be.
But well done to England.
. Was hoping they would win it but not to be.But well done to England.
Why was you hoping NZ would win it?Unlucky NZ
But well done to England.
Commissario
I bet he wouldn't have said this if New Zealand had won on boundaries.
