{"id":2141,"date":"2019-07-15T05:57:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2019-07-15T05:57:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:57:33","slug":"england-finally-takes-it-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/england-finally-takes-it-home\/","title":{"rendered":"England finally takes it home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England won the World Cup for the first time as they beat New Zealand in a dramatic Super Over after a nerve-shredding final ended in a tie at Lord\u00b4s on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Needing a modest 242 for victory, the hosts ended on 241 all out, with Ben Stokes unbeaten on 84, sending the match into a Super Over. The six-ball shootout also ended in a tie, with both sides hitting 15 runs, but Eoin Morgan&#8217;s side won by virtue of a superior boundary count in the match.<\/p>\n<p>After defeats in previous finals against Pakistan in 1992, Australia in 1987 and the West Indies in 1979, it was a cathartic moment for English cricket.\u00a0England\u00b4s triumph was the culmination of a remarkable rise over the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>While England celebrated, it was another heart-breaking loss for New Zealand, who also finished as runners-up in the previous World Cup in 2015 after losing to Australia in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England won the World Cup for the first time as they beat New Zealand in a dramatic Super Over after a nerve-shredding final ended in a tie at Lord\u00b4s on Sunday. Needing a modest 242 for victory, the hosts ended on 241 all out, with Ben Stokes unbeaten on 84, sending the match into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,3],"tags":[301],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","category-world","tag-icc","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}