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ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
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Your trolling has gone to shit.
Its always been a very popular sport, but it will never overtake Football or Rugby. I think it will be a tier below them along with Tennis and F1. Below that you have sports like snooker.
Cricket is bigger than Rugby in the UK.
How was it being there?
I could barely watch at home.
I'm very jealous you can say you were there.
You're telling me to not have an opinion. This is a forum for sharing and discussing. Have I broken any rules?
Enjoy your win and stop being offended by some random person on the internet.
Anyways, well done. Enjoy it. It was an epic game of cricket and did a great service to the sport I love.
I went to school in the UK and the sports was always focused more on Rugby and Football. Cricket was never played. Maybe its different now or was (and is) different at other schools, but the feeling I got was that Football and Rugby were top.
With a bit of cheating and a massive amount of luck england managed to nick a draw.
Most undeserving world cup winners. NZ are the winners in spirit.
Most undeserving world cup winners. NZ are the winners in spirit.
I would say Cricket is very close to Rugby in some ways in the UK. Attendence wise, Rugby blows it away though.
That's just a personal anecdote?
Rugby Union is essentially only played in about three counties. Likewise Rugby League.
Moral victories are for losers.
Page 298 after the richochet 4 is just amazing
You can guarantee if NZ had won in the same circumstances, absolutely all the naysayers would be saying "it was lucky but they deserved it".
Why are some of the Indian fans so bitter? You lot had a golden chance to knock England out but you didn't even try to win the game.
Archer had just bowled the winning over. He only moved to English when he was 18. I don't agree with his point either, but you're the one to identify him as the only black player, you were the one who decided that was the only variable that mattered. If the ECB hadn't changed their own rule last year then he wouldn't even be eligible to play right now. His case is distinctly different to all those other players. Why anyone thinks it's OK to frivolously accuse someone of racism is beyond me. You genuinely just through the blokes credibility into the fire.
I don't know if you are or aren't a racist as I don't know you, but I can fully accept you probably didn't make the conscious decision that you don't like him playing for England. I do think that subconsciously you focused on Archer because he looks different and made a point you wouldn't have made (and didn't make) about those three at the time. That doesn't make you a terrible person, we all carry subconscious biases and assumptions when it comes to race whether people are willing to admit it or not, but, in this instance it led to you repeating a talking point which people who definitely are racists strongly believe and have been bleating on about for months.
All I'm hoping to achieve by highlighting it is that you think about why that was one of your first thoughts when England had just won the World Cup.
Salty this thread 
Loving the bitterness, keep it coming.
Apparently there is a Indian-England cricket rivalry, in the same way City, before the current owners, hated United and United didn't really give two fecks
Makes it all the sweeter
What counties are those?
Full respect to both Morgan and Williamson. These two are true gents of the game. I know many English people here feel Indians don't like this England side but that's a total BS. A lotnof indians here and elsewhere have gone to say this english side is really good and truth to be told one cannot hate this English side. They play wonderful cricket and are deserving champions. Again well done. Like Ravi Shastri says Cricket was the true winner today. Thank you to both England and NZ.
Definitely
What an ending.
Oh, I love posts like this, breathe it in.
Great comment. Thanks.
What a game! To go to super over in the final of the World Cup and win it the way we did was absolutely phonomenal. Doubt we'll see that ever again in a game of such magnitude. Buzzing!!!
I'm watching highlights and even though I know we win it's still making me feel sick.
In terms of popularity the bandwagon fans will drink this victory in but return to football in a few weeks kind of how the rugby team in 2003 did. Some will stick around having been won over, some will try but get completely bemused by test cricket, and if you're a hardcore fan you probably value the ashes more than the world cup anyway.
What this country needs is an Ashes series that delivers. I think the Aussies are favourites but with the home advantage, England evens out the odds. We could be in for a cracker of a test series.
Really doesn't matter that he bowled the last over at all, England win the world cup not just Archer. That's a bollocks cop out excuse.
He moved over when he was 18 so fecking what his dad is English and he has British passport so why does when he moved to the UK matter in bloody slightest? Doesn't matter if his case is different, the poster said (after i had asked him) that he didn't agree with them playing for England either. So why not just state you don't agree with certain types of players representing England rather than single out one player? We just won the world cup and he bowled the last over, but if that's one of the first things you can say after we've just won a world cup you're gonna called out on it end of. He has no credibility whatsoever and got rightly called out on his bollocks views.
Also, why are people being so precious on here? Why do you put so much weight on what other people say? English fans should enjoy their win and stop being offended by comments. Its a damn forum. Opinions will differ.
What do you think about Morgan? He played for Ireland and then England decided they wanted a piece of him. Ed Joyce and Boyd Rankin too.
People tend to stick up for their country, you'd be the same if the boot was on the other foot had your country just won the wc and people were trying to shit on it
You've spoken shite about England all Summer, so I'm just giving you stick some back.
Stop being offended.
Oh, thats fine. People are whining about what other people are saying.
"Why the Indians fan this, why the Indians fans that"? Like I said, opinions will differ.