World Cup Final New Zealand vs England: Anurag Kashyap and Shahid Kapoor slam ICC’s ‘absurd’ rule

On July 14, the World Cup came to an end with the final match between New Zealand and England. It won’t be wrong if we say that we have never seen a match like this in the history of the World Cup. For the unversed, it was a tied match and in the Super Over, both teams scored 15 runs each. However, ICC decided to hand over the trophy to England on the basis of more boundaries scored. This disappointed the cricket fans and also a few of Bollywood celebs including Shahid Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap.

Shahid and Anurag took to their Twitter handle expressed their disappointment on the rule by ICC.

Here’s Shahid’s tweet.

This World Cup should have been shared. If England got more boundaries. New Zealand took more wickets. So the criteria is absurd. All 22 of those boys gave their everything and no one was lesser. Then why do only 11 get to feel like they were the best.

— Shahid Kapoor (@shahidkapoor) July 15, 2019

In another tweet, he wrote that he was not supporting New Zealand or England but at the end, he felt for the Kiwis.

I was not supporting either. Just watched a great match. And at the end just felt for the kiwis. England played amazing cricket. But so did the kiwis. They didn’t deserve to be second. No way.

— Shahid Kapoor (@shahidkapoor) July 15, 2019

Anurag Kashyap also expressed his disappointment.

Have a look at his tweets.

England is a winner because of stupid fuckin rules.. New Zealand is a true winner

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) July 14, 2019

If in a super over a country can win by the virtue of more boundaries then why can a country not win by the virtue of losing lesser wickets in the actual match? There is a serious problem with the your rules @ICC @cricketworldcup

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) July 14, 2019

Its the most fuckin bullshit and a biased rule .. is the super over , which is one fuckin over , more important than the actual 50 over match … just asking @ICC @cricketworldcup

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) July 14, 2019

Honestly speaking @ICC has made cricket such a batsmen game and wickets really don’t matter. Its all about the batsmen scores & the wickets are treated like the lower caste. If there was equality between bowling and batting .. New Zealand would be a winner today @cricketworldcup

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) July 14, 2019

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