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#2019

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Neil Wagner's Bouncer Barrage Unsettles Joe Root — New Zealand 2019

New Zealand vs England

2019-11-28

Neil Wagner's relentless bouncer strategy against Joe Root during New Zealand's 2019 Test series — bowling exclusively short deliveries at Root's body from around the wicket — exposed how even the world's best Test batsman could be rattled by intelligently sustained short-pitched bowling.

#neil-wagner#joe-root#new-zealand
🥊Moderate

Jason Holder's Plan to Dismiss Steve Smith — West Indies vs Australia

West Indies vs Australia

2019-07-03

Jason Holder's innovative around-the-wicket plan against Steve Smith — bowling into the rough outside leg stump — provided one of the 2019 series' most sophisticated bowling strategies against cricket's most technically gifted batsman, forcing Smith into specific defensive decisions he found unfamiliar.

#jason-holder#steve-smith#2019
😂Moderate

Various World Cup Final 2019 Comedy of Errors

England vs New Zealand

2019-07-14

The 2019 World Cup Final featured a freak overthrow off Ben Stokes' bat that went for six runs, sparking endless debate and proving that cricket's greatest moments are often its most absurd.

#world-cup-final#2019#overthrow
🔥Explosive

2019 World Cup Final — Boundary Count Rule and Overthrow Controversy

England vs New Zealand

14 July 2019

England won the 2019 World Cup Final on a boundary count tiebreaker after both the match and Super Over were tied, amid controversy over a crucial overthrow that awarded England six runs instead of five.

#world cup#2019#final
📋Moderate

Concussion Substitute — The Rule Jofra Archer Made Necessary

ICC vs Player Welfare

2019-08-01

The concussion substitute rule — allowing a like-for-like replacement for a player diagnosed with concussion — was formalised in international cricket in 2019 and immediately triggered controversy when it was used in the same Ashes Test where Steve Smith was struck by Jofra Archer.

#concussion#substitute#player-welfare
📋Moderate

The WTC Points Percentage System — Cricket's Most Confusing Formula

ICC vs Comprehensibility

2019-08-01

The World Test Championship's points-percentage system — introduced to account for different numbers of series played — became so complex that even cricket journalists struggled to explain qualification scenarios, and was simplified after the first cycle following widespread criticism.

#wtc#world-test-championship#points
Serious

Ben Stokes at Headingley 2019 — The Greatest Ashes Rescue

England vs Australia

2019-08-25

England needed 73 off the last 17 overs with one wicket remaining. Ben Stokes scored 135 not out, hitting the winning four off Pat Cummins to give England a 1-wicket victory — the most remarkable Ashes run chase since Botham's Leeds 1981.

#ben-stokes#headingley#ashes