Samikhsya Bureau
A fan of England team was shown on camera covering her eyes during the course of the Super Over at Lords when both England and New Zealand were at loggerheads for creating history. She, perhaps, did not want to witness an epilogue where her favourites were shrugged.
A history was created in which England made to the pages of statistics of the game, leaving a trail of inexactness of the sport for all times to come..
It is said that, the ‘victors always write history, and historians simply rewrite it’. But, 2019 World Cup leaves a history that needs no repeat.
May be in the annals of cricket, the 2019 World Cup deserved to be one of the most thrilling and nerve blocking finish but the final outcome after the shoot-out must go as one of the most memorable sporting event to have been lost at last in the absurdities of rules framed by the ICC.
Where the bat and the ball refused to speak and the guts of Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes or Martin Guptil and Jimmy Neesham, were blown to naught.
Members of both the teams must have gone through sleepless nights; one for losing the cup from under their jaws and the other for creating a history that will face questions for many times to come. A premise that the England team is in, may not take away the good cricket they played, but the filmsy logic that made them victorious will remain a moral turpitude for long.
It is time that, the ICC top caps were back to the drawing boards and smash such frivolous monopolies in the rule-book that could make an outrageous error to occupy a space in history of cricket.
