Top 10 cricketing tweets of the year

5. Jimmy Neesham takes a dig at ICC

The 2019 World Cup final was (if not the best) one of the best-ever ODI matches of all-time. The normal 50-over game was tied before the Super Over which was played as a tie-breaker went on and ended as a tie as well. England won the final on the virtue of scoring more boundaries and lifted the World Cup title and it was heart-break for New Zealand.

Super Overs were introduced for the first time in this World Cup and it was only to decide the winners of the semi-final and final in case of a tie. However, even if the Super Over was tied, the team that scored more boundaries were to be declared as winners. That’s how the final was decided and the rule was heavily criticized as it was unfair on New Zealand who were on the receiving end of it.

Thus, ICC scraped that rule in October and stated that there will be continuous Super Overs until one team has scored more runs than the other. Jimmy Neesham who isn’t shy to express himself retweeted CricBuzz’s tweet which stated the rule change. Taking a dig at ICC, his retweet read, “Next on the agenda: Better binoculars for the Ice spotters on the Titanic.”