New Zealand made 241 for eight. England made 241 all out. The super over produced 15 apiece. England were given the World Cup because they had hit more boundaries across the day, 26 to 17.
The passages that made it
Ben Stokes finished 84 not out and was at the centre of the two moments that decided it: an overthrow off his bat that ran to the boundary for six runs, and a last-over sequence that left England needing 15 from four balls. Trent Boult caught Stokes at long-on and stepped on the rope. Martin Guptill was run out by inches at the end of the super over.
What came after
The International Cricket Council removed the boundary countback within a year. A tied super over is now followed by another super over, repeated until there is a winner, which is what most people watching that afternoon had assumed was already the case.
It is the only World Cup final that has produced two ties and a champion, and the only one whose result depended on a rule almost nobody could have quoted before the day began.
