I hope the rule is archived as another poor attempt to fix something which was never broken,' he wrote. I wonder which stock market would have crashed if both England and New Zealand would have been declared joint winners after the super over tie. 'I just feel we tend to complicate things when most of it is pretty clear. Gambhir, who was part of India's title-winning teams of 2007 World T ICC World Cup, said the best decision would have been to declare England and New Zealand as joint winners. 'How do you factor in the conditions? How do you factor in the match situation for both teams?,' he questioned. Maybe New Zealand were pacing their innings in a different manner, maybe when they batted in the morning it was tough to hit fours and sixes but it became relatively easier when England batted in the latter half. 'My logic is as follows: New Zealand hit less number of boundaries than England but they still scored the same number of runs in the actual game and also in the super over. 'Even more ridiculous was the rule in this World Cup where the number of boundaries hit was used as a tie-breaker,' he added. It was our game against Pakistan,' he recalled. 'In the 2007 T20 World Cup, I remember how embarrassing it was to win a game of cricket on the basis of a bowl out. But he came down heavily on the boundary-count rule. The entire nation deserves credit for the way they have accepted the result,' the former India opener wrote in his column for The Times of India on Wednesday.

I didn’t hear anyone castigating Kiwi players, etc. Like many others, former India opener Gautam Gambhir too has questioned the rule, while complimenting New Zealand for the way they gracefully accepted a painful defeat. After scoring 241-each in the 50-over innings and 15-each in the Super Over, England were declared winners on the basis of more boundaries (fours and sixes) scored by them. NEW DELHI: The 2019 ICC World Cup final between England and New Zealand will be regarded as one of the best ODIs the game has ever seen, even if the rule used to decide the winner after a tied ' Super Over' has been debated at great lengths.

World cup cricket 7/17/2019