The right result in the Cricket World Cup final would have been a tie | Simon Jenkins

Money and chauvinism demand a victor and a vanquished. But in reality England and New Zealand were sporting equals

Human nature hates a balance. It craves a victor and a vanquished. In yesterday’s Cricket World Cup final, not a wafer separated the England and New Zealand teams. They tied. The sporting solution would be for both captains to admit the fact and shake hands. But the money, the chauvinism, the howls from the gallery, were more powerful. Kipling’s “twin imposters”, triumph and disas...