Cricket: how England won the World Cup

It was a little after 8pm, on a glorious summer’s evening, when Eoin Morgan did what no England men’s cricket captain had done before, said Mike Atherton in The Times. “He lifted the World Cup.” No one – not the spectators at Lord’s, not the millions of people watching around the world – could quite “believe what they had just witnessed”. The final had been tied – not once, but twice. First England equalled New Zealand’s score of 241. Then there was a Super Over, in which each side faced six balls, to settle the match. England were first up: they hit 15 runs. Then came the Black Caps: they responded with 15. So, under the rules, the trophy went to the side that had hit more boundaries in the…

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