KATHMANDU: England and New Zealand have faced each other on nine previous occasions at the World Cup and the Black Caps hold a narrow advantage 5-4. England, who reach their fourth final, the first since 1992, are the favorites to win ICC Men Cricket World Cup 2019 when they take on underdogs’ New Zealand in the final at the Lord’s on Sunday.
Whatever happens at Lord’s on Sunday there will be a new team lifting the ICC men’s Cricket World Cup trophy.
Either hosts England at the Home of Cricket or New Zealand, in their second successive final, will be celebrating.
The tenth meeting between the two teams in ICC men’s Cricket World Cups will undoubtedly be the most important, with New Zealand holding the most slender of leads.
If England are looking for good omens though, they can reflect on their record against the Kiwis over the last four years since their World Cup nadir in Wellington.
The match can be viewed on – Star Sports 1, Star Sports 2, Star Sports 3, Star Sports 1 in Hindi, OSN Sports Cricket HD, Star Sports HD.
Hotstar.com and Hotstar app will live stream the game. You need to use Indian VPN for countries except for India.
USA: Willow TV, HotStar US
Australia: Channel 9, Fox Sports
Pakistan: SonyLiv
Middle East: Wavo.com
South & Central America: ESPN
Similarly, the match updates will be available on most of the news portals including cricketbuzz, cricinfo, cricket country, ICC official website.
Likely XIs:
England: Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan (c), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (wk), Chris Woakes, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer, Mark Wood.
New Zealand: Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls, Kane Williamson (c), Ross Taylor, Tom Latham (wk), Jimmy Neesham, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Matt Henry, Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson.
(Agencies)
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