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New Zealand vs England, ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Final Match at Lord’s, LIVE Updates: England finally break their World Cup hoodoo 44 years since the Cricket World Cup was first played, but they were made to fight it out till the very last second by a spirited New Zealand side. New Zealand were ahead after Neesham smashed a six off the second delivery, and followed it up with back-to-back doubles. Archer though kept his calm, giving away just a single off the fifth ball. An under-pressure Guptill, who had a disappointing World Cup so far, can guide a full delivery towards deep midwicket. Guptill tries coming back for a second, but fails to make it back to the striker’s end. The two team are tied in the Super Over as well, but England win it as a consequence of collecting more boundaries throughout the game, resulting in the English players breaking into delirious celebrations! Guptill’s distraught at the end of the game, the polar opposite of the English players. Oh what a World Cup final we witnessed! Preview: Come 14 July, there will be a new champion in the ICC Cricket World Cup when hosts England take on New Zealand at the iconic Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. While England were touted as favourites even before the tournament got underway, the Kiwis had to wait till the Pakistan-Bangladesh match to all but confirm their place in the semi-finals. And eventually, thanks to some fine batting from Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor, and an economical spell from Matt Henry where he took three wickets, the Kiwis were able to demolish the Indian batting line-up and win by 18 runs with three balls to spare. Meanwhile, Eoin Morgan’s England looked comfortable in their eight-wicket win over defending champions Australia in Edgbaston. Although Australia recovered to 223 all out, it never looked like being enough, especially when England opener Jason Roy was blazing his way to 85 as the holders were denied an early wicket. Morgan finished on 49 not out and hit the winning runs as England won with a mammoth 107 balls to spare. But he was in no doubt an attack led by paceman Woakes, well supported by fast bowler Jofra Archer and with leg-spinner Adil Rashid taking three wickets, had laid the foundation for victory. Sunday will be England’s first appearance in the 50-over World Cup final since 1992, when they finished runners up after losing to Pakistan, whereas Kane Williamson and Co will be making their second consecutive appearance in the summit clash. The Kiwis were completely outplayed by the Aussies in the final of the 2015 edition, having lost by seven wickets at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Full team squads: New Zealand Team Players: Colin Munro , Martin Guptill , Kane Williamson (c), Tom Blundell (w), Ross Taylor , Henry Nicholls , James Neesham , Mitchell Santner , Lockie Ferguson , Trent Boult , Tim Southee , Matt Henry , Colin de Grandhomme , Tom Latham , Ish Sodhi . England Team Players: Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali , Jofra Archer , Jonny Bairstow (wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Tom Curran , Liam Dawson , Liam Plunkett , Adil Rashid , Joe Root , Jason Roy , Ben Stokes , James Vince , Chris Woakes , Mark Wood . With inputs from AFP For all the latest news, opinions and analysis from ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, click here
Highlights, New Zealand vs England, ICC World Cup 2019 Final, Full Cricket Score: England win maiden Men's ODI World Cup
New Zealand vs England, ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Final Match at Lord’s, LIVE Updates: England finally break their World Cup hoodoo 44 years since the Cricket World Cup was first played, but they were made to fight it out till the very last second by a spirited New Zealand side. New Zealand were ahead after Neesham smashed a six off the second delivery, and followed it up with back-to-back doubles. Archer though kept his calm, giving away just a single off the fifth ball. An under-pressure Guptill, who had a disappointing World Cup so far, can guide a full delivery towards deep midwicket. Guptill tries coming back for a second, but fails to make it back to the striker’s end. The two team are tied in the Super Over as well, but England win it as a consequence of collecting more boundaries throughout the game, resulting in the English players breaking into delirious celebrations! Guptill’s distraught at the end of the game, the polar opposite of the English players. Oh what a World Cup final we witnessed!
 "Highlights, New Zealand vs England, ICC World Cup 2019 Final, Full Cricket Score: England win maiden Men's ODI World Cup")
And that brings us to the end of our coverage of the 2019 edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup, and boy what a finale we’ve been treated to! In a thrilling encounter that went down to the very last delivery of the first ever 50-over World Cup Super Over, both England and New Zealand were tied on scores, with the Englishmen emerging victors for the first time in the history of the tournament by virtue of having scored more boundaries. Eoin Morgan and Co’s journey since the disaster of 2015 ends with the team lifting the most coveted trophy in cricket. Ben Stokes emerges the hero in the big final along with Jos Buttler against the team representing the country he was born in. Cannot get any more poetic than that.
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As our journey over the course of 46 days comes to an end, we hope you enjoyed our coverage of the World Cup! We move on to the bilateral engagements now, with the world champions now hoping to regain the Ashes urn from Australia and the Indian team travelling to West Indies.
For now, it’s time for us to catch our breath and take a break. On that note, we bid you all goodnight!
Sport: Beautiful one minute. Cruel the next.
Cruel!
— Stephen Fleming (@SPFleming7) July 14, 2019
Man of the tournament in ODI World Cups:
1992 – Martin Crowe
1996 – Sanath Jayasuriya
1999 – Lance Klusener
2003 – Sachin Tendulker
2007 – Glenn McGrath
2011 – Yuvraj Singh
2015 – Mitchell Starc
2019 – Kane Williamson
Man of the Match in World Cup finals:
1975 – Clive Lloyd
1979 – Viv Richards
1983 – Mohinder Amarnath
1987 – David Boon
1992 – Wasim Akram
1996 – Arvinda de Silva
1999 – Shane Warne
2003 – Ricky Ponting
2007 – Adam Gilchrist
2011 – MS Dhoni
2015 – James Faulkner
2019 – Ben Stokes
Kane Williamson is the Player of the Tournament!
Kane Williamson: (On small margins) It certainly wasn’t one extra run. There were so many small parts of the match that could’ve gone either way. But congratulations to England! It’s been challenging. The pitches have been a little bit different. There were talks out 300+plus scores, but we hardly saw that. Congratulations to all the New Zealand players for fighting hard all the way to the final. Pretty tough to swallow at this stage, but fantastic effort all around.
(On toss) We were obviously weighing on the overheads, and not just the pitch. As it proved, it proved challenging. In a World Cup final, perhaps 250 proves enough. It was a fantastic game of cricket. Both sides showed a lot of heart and fight. Once again credit to England. Lot of positives throughout the campaign. (On the Stokes bat deflection) That sort of thing happens from time to time, but hope it doesn’t happen again. (Guptill and Neesham for Super Over) Both guys hit the ball really hard, but it was the left and right combination. It is tough to perhaps review the match with such small margins.
This will be up for debate for long now
The DL system is actually based on runs and wickets lost... yet the Final result is only based on Boundaries hit? Not fair in my opinion. Must have been great to watch!
— Dean Jones AM (@ProfDeano) July 14, 2019
Teams losing consecutive World Cup finals:
England – 1987, 1992
Sri Lanka – 2007, 2011
New Zealand – 2015, 2019
Only if there was such a provision…
The World Cup title should have been shared. Fairest result, in my opinion
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) July 14, 2019
Last three ODI WCs have been won by home teams:
2011 – India
2015 – Australia
2019 – England
Ben Stokes: All the hard work over four years, to be champions of the world is a different feeling. I think playing against New Zealand is always a great event to be part of. Seriously great team. Apologised after that incident.
Jofra Archer: Pretty sure I was going to bowl, but I just had to double check. Still heart’s racing. Probably the biggest thing I ever won. Great bunch of fellas. Been a really good family to me.
Winning the ODI World Cup for the first time:
West Indies – 1975
India – 1983
Australia – 1987
Pakistan – 1992
Sri Lanka – 1996
England – 2019*
It probably sounds like sour grapes to say it now, but that’s a terrible way to decide a tournament.
Not how many runs, but how they were scored.
That shouldn’t be how sports works.
Congratulations to England. They have probably been the best side in the world over the past 4 years. And they are deserving World Cup winners.
But that is a horrible way to decide it.
World Cup winners:
1975 – West Indies
1979 – West Indies
1983 – India
1987 – Australia
1992 – Pakistan
1996 – Sri Lanka
1999 – Australia
2003 – Australia
2007 – Australia
2011 – India
2015 – Australia
2019 – England*
Joe Root: Wow. It is hard to explain. Everyone has contributed. Tough time in group stage. Everyone held it together.
Plunkett: I’ll take that. What a day. Great game of cricket. Swing the willow connect a few.
Bairstow: Elated I think. Massive commiserations to the New Zealand team. The way the guys came out in the Super Over was huge. We bowled pretty well, and they put us under a heck of a lot of pressure. Spectacle it happens to be. To win the World Cup final at Lord’s is a completely different thing.
Buttler: Unbelievable isn’t it. I thought I’ve seen everything in cricket. Unbelievable day. We wanted to take it deep. We didn’t feel like run rate would be an issue. Couple of big partnerships would chase this down. Don’t know what happened in the end. It was unbelievable.
What a tremendous piece of skill from Neesham. Going deep in his crease to turn a yorker into a half-volley, then to hit it for 6.
Outstanding.
What a horrible match for Trent Boult. No luck at all with the ball, missed the catch that would have won the match, then got taken the distance in his super over.
Now he needs to hope that his team mates step up ton save his blushes.
This is ragging!!
16 from 6
— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) April 13, 2013
Did you Know?
New Zealand scored exactly 15 runs in the first ever Super Over in T20Is. (v WI at Auckland in 2008). They need 16 runs today to become the champions.
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