Thus, the International Criminal Court (ICC) just got away with it. Rain relented, we had a final to remember, and went home fans happy. This will be the official view. There may even be some of the Pats on their backs to officials'. But he says only half the story.
Yes, the rain relented, yes, we had more than 20 final to savor, and yes, India, and the best team in the tournament, won their supporters celebrated in for a long night.
But officials should not go unpunished. Through the organization of the final match without an end today, they messed with fans and got lucky. Should never be allowed to do so again.
The official explanation is that there were only 17 days to host the tournament, and that there was "no room evade," and that bilateral tours take precedence. They are the fans really expected to take such an explanation seriously?
You can praise the players to contest the final volatile in difficult circumstances. You can listen to people intellectualising about the amount of cricket played, and how difficult it is to cram on parts to schedule.
You can undo to comforting jokes about horrible essential English summer and even predict that global warming could make it more than ever unbearable. You can listen to thousands of clarifications about logistics, about what is possible and what is not.
None of those things. We do not accept any explanation that you hear. Administrators need to understand that to host the final match of the tournament big for one day without reserve day, as is the wooden-minded as it gets.
If you do something, you should do it properly. If you tell spectators that the tournament is important, and the sale of television rights and tickets on this basis, there are basic standards you have to meet to try to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion.
We can argue all incessantly about the details: about how many sides must be involved, and how it should be derived groups higher, both in the pre-locate the semi-finals of the countries that qualify, and how to choose between the two sides, which ends in points are equal.
We can argue about football and the white one or two, about the numbers in circles, whether to allow the runners, both balls can be bounced on to the stumps, and how many more guards.
We philosophical about whether the Champions Trophy really matters, mainly whether we will be better without him. But does not have a reserve day in the final is nonsense.
A final is what everyone has been built up for weeks. Because it justifies everything that has gone before. Because it justifies the efforts of the players and the dreams of the masses. Non-delivery of this peak entire tournament turns into a failure.
Shakespeare's Hamlet will not stop writing after four works because it has run out of time and he had to get with the wives of Windsor Merry. The World Cup football in Brazil will not end in the semi-final stage if the final match was suspended because of a sudden storm.
Even without the presence of official reserves today, the authorities have cobbled together one, where the rain fell, in case you need them, with enough will and imagination.
Only five players in the England ODI squad is in T20 squad to face New Zealand on Tuesday in the Oval. It already has exploded almost the entire Ashes squad. It can remove a few more.
If India was about to catch a trip on 24 for the Caribbean, a triangular tournament against Sri Lanka and the West Indies, they could have changed the flight. In the first game is not even 28.
If there is not enough referees, and some employment. If you do not have the bar staff, and the closure of bars. If officials of the International Criminal Court to get back to London for a meeting, and then play the game without it. Tell them the result later.
If it rains for a week and then you can not do much about it. But by not including a reserve day, lost contact with the administrators of millions of fans who keep the game alive. You must never do that again.
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