Unbelievable Finishes at Lord's and Wimbledon

What a day in sport!

Both the Cricket World Cup final and the Wimbledon Men's final going right down to the wire, at the same time, in different suburbs of London.

Congratulations to England and Novak Djokovic on your wins.

Commiserations to New Zealand and Roger Federer, who fought so hard and came so close.

In case anyone missed all of the action in London yesterday, here's a write up that describes some of the nail biting exploits, both at Lords and Wimbledon.

England win Cricket World Cup: A golden hour ends in a champagne super over 

You have to feel for the Kiwis, missing out on the Cricket World Cup. I believe under the old rules they would have won in normal time, as they lost fewer wickets in scoring their 241 runs than England did. They also would have won if the two runs that Ben Stokes scored in the final over had not turned into six when the return ball amazingly hit his bat as he was reaching for the crease and deflected to the boundary for the most incredible six ever scored in a World Cup final, if not any game of cricket, anywhere.

The ball bounces off Ben Stokes’s bat as he dives to make a second run during the Cricket World Cup final at Lord’s

Australia Lose the Fourth Ashes Test

From a promising position on day four of the fourth Ashes test at Chester le Street, Durham, Australia’s batting disintegrated and succumbed to another defeat to England. This result gives England the series, having already retained the Ashes with the draw at Old Trafford, and Australia with only pride to play for at the Oval next week.

The fourth test swung both ways, with England and Australia taking the advantage at different times, much like most of the series so far. Australia established a first innings lead of 32 in a low scoring match. But it should have been more. Opener Chris Rogers picked up his maiden test century with some dogged determination and batting. Shane Watson scored 68 coming in at number six. But very few others made much contribution to the total, with three of the top five not making double figures.

Shane Watson and Chris Rogers, Australia's highest scorers

Australia’s attack once again performed better than their batsmen and dismissed England for 330 in the second innings giving Australia an achievable target of 299 and the best part of two whole days to get them. England’s total was mainly the result of another superb century from Ian Bell and some handy runs from Tim Bresnan, once again coming in as the night watchmen, and Graham Swann’s unbeaten 30 boosting the tail.

The second innings for Australia started really well with an opening partnership of 109. But things quickly fell away from there. Khawaja and Clarke both made only 21 and Stuart Broad broke the hearts of the Australian batsmen with two sensational balls to dismiss Clarke and the dangerous wicket keeper Haddin. From there the writing was on the wall. Peter Siddle contributed a gutsy 23 but he was never going to make the required 118 remaining runs with Australia’s weakened tail.