The fast bowler Jofra Archer, a brilliant talent new to cricket’s world stage, stands at the top of his run-up, flicking a white cricket ball nonchalantly in his hand. With 30,000 fans in the ground already drunk on drama, and 1.6bn watching around the world, Archer knows what’s coming. The next five minutes, his next six balls — a “Super Over”, the final way to determine a tied cricket match — will decide whether England or New Zealand win the 2019 World Cup.
快速投球手喬弗拉·阿切爾(Jofra Archer)是板球世界舞臺上的新秀,他才華橫溢,站在助跑處,漫不經心地輕彈手中的白色板球。場內3萬名球迷已經沉醉在戲劇性的氣氛中,全世界有16億人在觀看,阿切爾知道即將發生什么。接下來的五分鐘,他接下來的六個球--一個“超級大球”,決定一場平局的板球比賽的最后方式--將決定是英格蘭還是新西蘭贏得2019年世界杯。