Published 16:33 IST, July 27th 2019

Tie in New Zealand-South Africa rugby match, Kiwis take jibe over World Cup final boundary count rule

A second tie was witnessed at a global event in the sporting world in July, the first being the controversial cricket World Cup final at Lord's Cricket Ground in London on July 14 and the latest being the Rugby Championship match between New Zealand's All Blacks and South Africa's Springboks on July 27. While the former was decided in a controversial fashion by using the boundary count rule, the latter was left to be a tie. 

Reported by: Koushik Narayanan
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A second tie was witnessed at a global event in sporting world in July, first being controversial cricket World Cup final at Lord's Cricket Ground in London on July 14 and latest being finals of  Rugby Championship match between New Zealand's All Blacks and South Africa's Springboks on July 27. While former was decided in a controversial fashion by using boundary count rule, latter was left to be a tie. 

Rugby Clash: 

All Blacks took on Springboks in Wellington in finals of Rugby Championship, as three times champions New Zealand looked to maintain ir winning trot against South Africa. game went down wire and was tied at 16 each, making game a draw. South Africa kicked off game after winning toss, following which y grabbed le initially. All Blacks came from behind to close up on game and eventually tied game as both teams settled at 16 points each. In due course of game, New Zealand became first team in history to bring up 16000 Test points. 

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All Blacks twitter handle took a dig at controversial cricket World Cup semi-final that saw a tie between England and New Zealand to be decided in England's favour after boundary count rule was used to decide winner.

Here's tweet from All Blacks:  

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Cricket World Cup horror for Kiwis:

A throw from Black Caps fielder Martin Guptill deflected off Stokes' bat while he was diving to reach his crease to complete second run and ball ran off to boundary in dying sts of England run chase. Stokes h attempted to complete two runs and hence umpire awarded six runs in total after overthrow. Many former cricketers and analysts have pointed out that England should have been awarded only five runs inste of six, a match-changing effect that would have seen hosts go down by one run to New Zealand.  

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Super Over saw a dramatic last-ball thriller as New Zealand's James Neesham and Martin Guptill attempted to chase down 15-run target set by England but failed to do so after being run-out off last ball. tie in Super Over forced match-winner to be decided based on team scoring a higher number of boundaries, leing to England lifting World Cup trophy as y h scored 24 boundaries as opposed to New Zealand's 17 boundaries.   

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15:28 IST, July 27th 2019