The Day England Won The Cricket World Cup, England v New Zealand, 14 July 2019

We didn’t go.

Watching from the comfort of Noddyland rather than at Lord’s was probably for the best.

I’m not sure the noise and the stress of it would have been good for us if we’d been at Lord’s.

The sheer edge-of-seatness of it all wasn’t very good for us in the comfort of Noddyland.

By the end of it, not only was the World Cup match a tie-break thriller but so was the Wimbledon Final between Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.

Here is a link to the Cricinfo scorecard and copious materials about this epic match.

Here is an ICC official highlights package of the denouement:

Janie and I were wrecks by the end of that. Very happy wrecks.

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