Technical ノックアウト: Kiwis 賞賛する team but query 'cruel' 支配するs

Technical knockout: Jos Buttler runs out Martin Guptill off the last ball of a dramatic Super Over to give England victory

Technical ノックアウト: Jos Buttler runs out ツバメ Guptill off the last ball of a 劇の 最高の Over to give England victory

Heartbroken New Zealanders 表明するd pride Monday in the 黒人/ボイコット Caps' fighting spirit after 敗北・負かす to England in the Cricket World Cup final, but also bemusement at the obscure 支配するs that cost them the match.

The 黒人/ボイコット Caps lost even though 得点する/非難する/20s were tied at the end of both 正規の/正選手 play and a 最高の Over shootout, with England's superior 境界 count giving them victory.

As Kiwi fans 吸収するd a second straight loss in the tournament decider, 総理大臣 Jacinda Ardern was concentrating on the 肯定的なs.

"That was undeniably an incredible game. I think as a nation we all 老年の a year in that 最高の Over," she 地位,任命するd on social マスコミ.

"Congratulations to England. And to the 黒人/ボイコット Caps, I feel nothing but pride. What a team."

But her sports 大臣 認める Robertson questioned the tie-break method.

"What an 驚くべき/特命の/臨時の game. Not sure 最高の Over is the 権利 end," he tweeted.

"Whatever, NZ you can be so, so proud of this team."

Agony: New Zealand captain Kane Williamson after losing by the slimmest of margins

Agony: New Zealand captain Kane Williamson after losing by the slimmest of 利ざやs

Former 黒人/ボイコット Cap Scott Styris labelled 治める/統治するing 団体/死体 the ICC "a joke" over the 支配するs but congratulated both teams on a 素晴らしい 成果/努力s.

Former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming's one-word reaction to the result was "cruel", while even the father of England's Kiwi-born match-勝利者 Ben Stokes felt the Kiwis were hard done by.

Gerard Stokes, a former New Zealand rugby league international who took his son to England as a boy while he 追求するd his career, said honours were even.

"It's a shame there has to be a loser," he told the New Zealand 先触れ(する).

"They could have 株d the トロフィー but that doesn't seem to be how things are done these days."

- 'Did we lose?' -

News website stuff.co.nz said New Zealand had been 否定するd by the 罰金 print.

Sheer drama: Ben Stokes dives to make his ground and inadvertently deflects the ball 
to the boundary for an extra four runs

Sheer 演劇: Ben Stokes dives to make his ground and inadvertently deflects the ball to the 境界 for an extra four runs

"England did not 勝利,勝つ the Cricket World Cup final and the 黒人/ボイコット Caps did not lose it," an 編集(者)の said.

"But the tournament had to have a 勝利者, somehow. And in the end, what was perhaps the most 劇の ODI ever played, was decided by a curious, contentious 罰金-print 支配する."

It was a 主題 echoed by Sam Flynn Scott from pop culture website The Spinofff's cricket podcast.

"Did we lose the game? It seems like it was tied and then it was tied again, then there was just some stupid 支配する about who 勝利,勝つs the World Cup," he said.

"It should have been who took the most wickets (which would have given New Zealand victory)."

Trent Boult catches Ben Stokes but treads on the boundary conceding a crucial six runs tothe England batsman

Trent Boult catches Ben Stokes but treads on the 境界 譲歩するing a 決定的な six runs tothe England batsman

Former New Zealand bowler Daniel Vettori said it "feels unfortunate" the final was decided on 境界s 得点する/非難する/20d but the 黒人/ボイコット Caps had to 受託する the 支配するs.

He said the match also turned on several 重要な moments, 含むing a freak fielding deflection off Stokes' bat that raced to the 境界 and a 行方不明になるd 適切な時期 for Trent Boult to catch the England batsman on the 境界.

"It's going to be remembered for so many little moments and infortunately all those little moments probably went against New Zealand," he told ESPN.

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