Cricket World Cup final: All you need to know about the Black Caps' heartbreak against England

Name: ANZ Sports Scene: 'I woke up thinking it was a bad dream' - Kane Williamson
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Description: Kane Williamson reflects on yesterday's Cricket World Cup Final loss to England

NZ Herald

15 Jul, 2019 06:00 AM3 mins to read

Kane Williamson reflects on yesterday's Cricket World Cup Final loss to England

Match report: England beat Black Caps in greatest ODI in history

Centimetres. That's all that stood between the Black Caps and winning the Cricket World Cup. Centimetres. Miserable, excruciating, heartbreaking centimetres, writes Niall Anderson is his match report. Read here

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Ben Stokes' dad questions use of Super Over tie-breaker

Ben Stokes was made for the job of leading England to World Cup victory, according to his dad.

But Gerard "Ged" Stokes, the former Kiwi league forward and assistant coach, also questioned whether a brilliant cricket final should have been decided by a Super Over and boundary countback. He talked exclusively to the Herald.

Liam Napier: The greatest ODI of all time will take some getting over

Hope is a tortuous sporting emotion and the Black Caps sure know how to tug the heart strings. The greatest ODI of all time will take some getting over.

Losing a World Cup final in these crushing circumstances – on the basis of scoring fewer boundaries than the opposition – is simply not right.

Those are the rules, apparently, and so the cruellest defeat in cricket history is in the books.

Fortunate doesn't do England justice, writes Liam Napier.

UK Media reacts to England's staggering final win

Sympathy and admiration for New Zealand in defeat.

There were glowing tributes for New Zealand after victory was snatched away from them, in somewhat controversial circumstances, in the cricket World Cup final. Read more