So, farewell then to this glorious and elongated summer of sport, which has captivated and enthralled ever since the clocks skipped forward. Truly, you were one of the finest. Lord’s 2019 is already shorthand for the greatest one-day cricket match in history. Wimbledon served up its longest and most dramatic men’s final ever and introduced tennis’s most dazzling talent in more than a decade, Coco Gauff, to the world. Meanwhile the Women’s World Cup shattered viewing records and rust‑encrusted prejudices, while the Ashes embedded itself deeper into the public’s consciousness than at any time since 2005.
Yet that was barely half of it. Will we ever forget Megan Rapinoe repeatedly sticking it to Donald Trump or the USA women’s football team winning the World Cup while engaging in confrontation with their own federation in a bid to be paid as much as their less successful male counterparts? Or, come to think of it, Kane Williamson’s remarkable sportsmanship after the cricketing gods had conspired against New Zealand when a throw to the wicketkeeper on the third last delivery of the Cricket World Cup clunked off Ben Stokes’s bat and ran away to the boundary, turning a likely victory into eventual defeat?
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/sep/15/summer-sport-2019-ashes-world-cup-cultural-war under the title “Farewell summer of sport 2019, you were truly one for the ages | Sean Ingle”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
