- May 11, 2015
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Ok, so declaring my hand from the start. I’m a Pom and apart from my lousy soccer team I’ve never supported a team longer than the England cricket team. I’m 45, so we’re going back to early 80s.
A few observations:
- the Roy first ball reprieve: well DRS reprieved Nicholls early on and identified that Williamson got a nick. DRS has to have a tolerance for error so as far as I’m concerned and the Roy incident looked like it was going leg side so I say fair enough.
- the Boult catch/six: for me this is the moment of the game. Throw it in bounds and whether it is caught again or not then it’s not a six and NZ win.
- the deflected six runs: its the law of the game, so all the whinging on here is just hysterical (and quite funny)...but I’d happily see the law changed so it can never be more than four runs (the overthrow cancelling out the runs between wickets)
- the most boundaries: it’s a pretty harsh way to lose and I’d again be happy if they changed it to be another super over (like sudden death penalties in soccer).
Does the victory feel hollow...no...BUT...I’m not convinced any tie breaker will ever be satisfactory because more than anything the losing team doesn’t deserve to lose.
At the end of the day though, I reckon NZ have just had about 5 million Poms adopt NZ as their second team.
A few observations:
- the Roy first ball reprieve: well DRS reprieved Nicholls early on and identified that Williamson got a nick. DRS has to have a tolerance for error so as far as I’m concerned and the Roy incident looked like it was going leg side so I say fair enough.
- the Boult catch/six: for me this is the moment of the game. Throw it in bounds and whether it is caught again or not then it’s not a six and NZ win.
- the deflected six runs: its the law of the game, so all the whinging on here is just hysterical (and quite funny)...but I’d happily see the law changed so it can never be more than four runs (the overthrow cancelling out the runs between wickets)
- the most boundaries: it’s a pretty harsh way to lose and I’d again be happy if they changed it to be another super over (like sudden death penalties in soccer).
Does the victory feel hollow...no...BUT...I’m not convinced any tie breaker will ever be satisfactory because more than anything the losing team doesn’t deserve to lose.
At the end of the day though, I reckon NZ have just had about 5 million Poms adopt NZ as their second team.