ICC World Cup 2019: Twitter Reacts As England Restrict New Zealand To 241 Runs

England complemented their last four years hardwork with another spectacular display of bowling to restrict New Zealand to a small total in the final encounter of the ICC World Cup 2019 at the Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.

England take one step closer to the finals

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New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson won the toss and elected to bat first on a sloppy Lord’s wicket. Both the teams went in the same playing XI they fielded in the semifinal. Martin Guptill, who had an awful tournament so far showed some intent at the start taking on England’s Jofra Archer in the fourth over but Chris Woakes hits his pads to end the vigil as the 2015 World Cups highest run-scorer ended a poor campaign. Striving at 29 for one, the onus was once again on their skipper Kane Williamson.

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The Black Clap skipper started the revival along with Henry Nicholls who looked in good touch after a poor tournament so far. The left-hand-right-hand combination rotated the strike brilliantly to add 74 runs for the second wicket. Williamson once again looked set for a big total, but Liam Plunkett found an edge to get England the biggest wicket. The umpire once again got it wrong, but Eoin Morgan immediately reviewed it to overturn the decision. Nicholls followed the pack soon giving Plunkett his second wicket to have New Zealand at 188 for three in 27 overs.

Ross Taylor who played crucial innings against India in the semifinal was in the middle, but an umpiring howler from Marias Erasmus ended the veteran campaigner’s stay in the middle. New Zealand were half down when Mark Wood produced another breakthrough for England after Jimmy Neesham got out soon after hitting a few boundaries. But Tom Latham played a crucial hand scoring 47 runs to help the Kiwis post a challenging total of 241 runs on the scoreboard.

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Twitter Reactions

A lot spoken about England’s aggressive batting…but, this bowling is tremendous!
Short, fast, accurate & effective. ???????

— Kevin Pietersen? (@KP24) July 14, 2019

250 + will be a very tough chase on this deck .. #JustSaying #CWC19

— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) July 14, 2019

Again that length, getting batsman forward and pushing. This time gets the better of Nicholls.#Finals

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) July 14, 2019

Great spell from Liam Plunkett !!! #cwc2019final Champion spell !!!

— Russel Arnold (@RusselArnold69) July 14, 2019

Hard luck for Taylor, and how touch on NZ to lose a major batsman at this stage because no review remains?

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) July 14, 2019

This @englandcricket bowling attack is relentless!! Love seeing @Liam628 killing it. One of the great blokes ?????

— Luke Wright (@lukewright204) July 14, 2019

Game changing spell from plunkett. England looking good to win this WC, but if NZ gets to 235-240 with bit of seaming conditions u never know #ENGvsNZ #CWC19Final

— yuvraj singh (@YUVSTRONG12) July 14, 2019

Munaf Plunkett doing it for England ?

— Saurabh Malhotra (@MalhotraSaurabh) July 14, 2019

Really? It's obvious isnt it? https://t.co/BSWnNzFxgt

— Scott Styris (@scottbstyris) July 14, 2019

Tough conditions, for batting. New Zealand need to continue the way they are batting, and back their bowlers to defend a total 230 to 260. Neesham had other ideas thinking Plunkett was the bowler to take on. Decisions! #CWC19 #NZvENG #ENGVNZ

— Brad Hogg (@Brad_Hogg) July 14, 2019

280-300 should be the target to defend for Championship @BLACKCAPS

— Mohammad Hafeez (@MHafeez22) July 14, 2019

It's Plunkett again. The experience is coming into play here. He gets Nicholls, New Zealand are three down now.

Besides, I read Plunkett has picked most wickets in ODI's (b/w 11-40 overs) since the 2015 WC. No wonder!!#ENGvsNZ

— Gautam Sodhi (@GautamSodhi1) July 14, 2019

Umpiring in the finals thus far…. ? #CWC19 #EngvNZ

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) July 14, 2019

Was always going to come back & hurt them? https://t.co/Y3YJcocbdK

— Alex Tudor (@alextudorcoach) July 14, 2019

Kumar Dharmasena gets a hat-trick in 2019 World Cup knock outs

— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) July 14, 2019

Great to see so many people in Trafalgar Square for the live screening of the @CricketWorldCup final. If you need somewhere to watch the game, you can still head down to the fan zone now #CWC19Final #ComeOnEngland #LondonIsOpen pic.twitter.com/HugvlaT8t0

— Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon) July 14, 2019

That review by Guptill? ? The same as Bairstow in the semi. Cant afford an umpire mistake now. #error

— Scott Styris (@scottbstyris) July 14, 2019

Got the lucky ? on – cmon englandcricket Build up done here – should be an awesome game! @sdoull @MClarke23 @cricketworldcup @homeofcricket #cwc19 #ENGvNZ https://t.co/3Dz7MXhR2V

— Isa Guha (@isaguha) July 14, 2019

So a poor 'desperate/hopeful' review costs Ross Taylor and NZ just as Bairstows review cost Roy in the semi https://t.co/yTZj6Pp8fr

— Scott Styris (@scottbstyris) July 14, 2019

240 could be a decent score again. ?‍♂️

— mark butcher (@markbutcher72) July 14, 2019