If anyone cares what I think, I'm still trying to process what I saw today, so I need to get it out somewhere.
I never thought I'd see something as good as the 1999 semi final, which I was lucky to be at, but that game today surpassed it by some distance. It was bonkers. New Zealand did everything right, Williamson's captaincy was superb, and were it not for the most fortuitous deflection off Stokes' bat we might be congratulating New Zealand. And they would have been deserved winners. I don't know if that moment cost New Zealand the victory, Ben Stokes has it in him to have got another boundary, but it turned the game on its head. Stokes is a champion, as is Buttler, I've always thought the thing that puts England aside is the six match winners in the top six and I always felt that if they made it to the last ten we had a chance. I was a complete bag of nerves by the end of it.
There are other things besides that deflection, Boult stepping on the boundary, Taylor not having a review available. NZ didn't quite have the luck. Had the rules been different they might have won and but both teams deserved to take the trophy home. It's a shame only one could. We'll be seeing plenty of retellings of this game for many, many, many years to come during lunch breaks.
Don't know quite how I feel about the super over finish, it was very exciting, but in ODI cricket it feels a bit too random. I still leapt off my sofa and roared when Buttler completed the run out. I doubt it'll change after the spectacle today but maybe a super powerplay of three overs would be fairer. Or even judging it on wickets lost like they did in the past. Even part of me feels sharing the trophy would be the fairest way to do it if they can't be separated after 50 overs and a super over. Anyway, those are probably debates for another time. I'm sure there have been more exciting finishes (I can't think of any) but none on this stage. It was remarkable.