2019 Cricket World Cup
2019 Cricket World Cup
The 2019 Cricket World cup tournament recently got concluded with much drama and controversy. This tournament was hosted by England and Wales together. England became victorious at the end. In this article will be summarizing this whole world cup tournament and discussing about different awards given which might appear in your exams.
This was the 1st time in world cup history when round robin format was chosen before the semis which was knockout. Round Robin format is when each competitor plays with the other teams in turn. So after the end of the round robin format , India was leading in the points table followed by Australia then England and on 4th position was New Zealand. These 4 teams played the semi finals.
The points table before the semis is shown in the picture of the points table.
1st semi was played between India and New Zealand were the Black caps emerged victorious winning by 18 runs. Matt Henry who was awarded the man of the match for his splendid bowling helped the Black caps to place their spot in the finals.
2nd semi was played between Australia and England where the English team finished the match in 32.1 overs winning by 8 wickets.
The Final played at Lords between England and New Zealand was a real thriller in which there was a lot of drama , nervousness , excitement. The match went to the super over where the scores were again tied and England was awarded the cup because of the boundary margin. Many controversies took place the last 1 hour of the match :-
1. Ben Stokes's dive which deflected the ball and went for the boundary. (He apologized for that and also wanted to remove those 4 runs from the run awarded as told by his friend and teammate James Anderson)
2. Kumar Dharmasena's wrong decision of awarding 6 runs for the ball when stokes dived. He was criticized by former umpire Simon Taufel for his decision.
3. Many New Zealand's fans and many experts feel that the Boundary margin to decide the winner is not a logical parameter.
Winners - England
Man of the Match(in finals) - Ben Stokes
Man of the Tournament - Kane Williamson
Highest Run Getter - Rohit Sharma(648 runs)
Highest Wicket Taker - Mitchell Starc(27 wickets)
Thanks for reading the blog...Enjoy the Official Theme song Of ICC World Cup 2019 - "STAND BY"
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