Do you agree with the final result?

[mr_mister]

Interesting. Imagine if rain had come and one side had a reduced overs innings and one didn't. Then the boundary law really would have been controversial

 

[DravidFan]

Why not whoever has more wickets in hand?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Why not just whichever team sat higher on the points table? Surely that's the most sensible way to decide, because they had a better (at least points-wise) qualifying stage

 

[DravidFan]

Why not just whichever team sat higher on the points table? Surely that's the most sensible way to decide, because they had a better (at least points-wise) qualifying stage

Then you're not really distinguishing between the league stage and the knockout stage. You're calling it a knockout but it really isn't because you're considering points from the league stage.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Imagine if England had scored just one more boundary than us - the rebound from Stokes's bat.

The ironic thing is that we were better at scoring off more balls than the opposition and not having so many dot balls and it cost us the tournament

 

[mr_mister]

Imagine if England had scored just one more boundary than us - the rebound from Stokes's bat.

The ironic thing is that we were better at scoring off more balls than the opposition and not having so many dot balls and it cost us the tournament

Did that count as a boundary?

 

[Athlai]

If that final were at Eden Park all of our 2s would've been sixes.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Then you're not really distinguishing between the league stage and the knockout stage. You're calling it a knockout but it really isn't because you're considering points from the league stage.

So what? Why should you distinguish it? The group stage is still part of the World Cup and probably should be given more weight

 

[TheJediBrah]

If that final were at Eden Park all of our 2s would've been sixes.

#Lordssobig

 

[Chrish]

Team with the most boundaries winning makes as much sense as team with the most opposition LBW dismissals being declared as a winner. It doesn't make any logical sense.

 

[DravidFan]

Team with the most wickets at hand at the end of the game makes more sense.

 

[DravidFan]

So what? Why should you distinguish it? The group stage is still part of the World Cup and probably should be given more weight

No. The knockout is a clean break with the group stage.

 

[morgieb]

It's a weird tiebreaker, but the rules were clear, so I guess England deserved the win.

Personally I'd have done a sudden death super ball if the super over was tied.

 

[TheJediBrah]

No. The knockout is a clean break with the group stage.

Obviously, that's the problem I'm addressing . . .

Team with the most wickets at hand at the end of the game makes more sense.

It definitely makes more sense than most boundaries. Almost everything makes more sense than most boundaries. Such a dumb rule.

 

[NUFAN]

Its harder to hit the same number of runs when you hit less boundaries. So nope, I dont really agree but rules are rules.

 

[social]

Absolute farce

The basic premise of cricket is to score more runs than the opposition and that didn’t happen

 

[TheJediBrah]

Upon a deeper think I believe England should still have been the winners, but because of their higher position on the points table, not the ridiculous most-boundaries rule that should never have even been thought up let alone applied

NZ had plenty of luck making it to make the semis

 

[Chrish]

One can easily argue that deflection rule in an attempt of run out is just as silly as most boundary winner stuff.

 

[TheJediBrah]

that deflection rule has always been in cricket there though. Or at least as far as I can remember. The boundary countback is just random and dumb. We should know better than to invent even more dumb rules in the game these days.

 

[Bahnz]

One can easily argue that deflection rule in an attempt of run out is just as silly as most boundary winner stuff.

Moreso I'd say. At least the boundary tie-breaker is just totally arbitrary. The runs off a deflection rule is totally unfair - something which everyone acknowledges as shown by the convention that batsmen won't run for any available overthrows (even - admirably for Stokes and Rashid - in a World Cup final).