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Liam Prenderville

Cricket World Cup final 2019 to be shown for FREE as England take on New Zealand

England's World Cup final with New Zealand will be shown on free-to-air TV this weekend.

The hosts secured their place in their first final for 27 years with a dominant victory over Australia at Edgbaston.

England will now take on New Zealand at Lord's with Eoin Morgan's team the big favourites.

And fans will be able to watch the action for free on Sunday after Sky Sports teamed up with Channel 4.

The action at Lord's will coincide with the British Grand Prix, with both major events being shown across the two channels.

Joe Root of England celebrates (Getty Images)
England's players celebrate (AFP/Getty Images)

Sky Sports' coverage will be free to air via Channel 4, although the cricket will be switched to More4 during the Grand Prix at 1.15pm.

Live coverage from Lord's will also be available on Sky One.

The final against New Zealand will be England's first final since they were beaten by Pakistan in Melbourne in 1992.

Chris Woakes, Jofra Archer and Adil Rashid performed wonders with the ball after Australia chose to bat first, reducing the visitors to 14 for three before bowling them for 223 all out.

Jason Roy's brilliant 85 put the game beyond a shellshocked Australia, who went down with 107 balls remaining.

The crowd show their support (Getty Images)

Having already thrashed nine fours and five sixes, he would surely have gone on to a career-best hundred had he not been robbed in messy circumstances. Given caught behind despite making no contact with the ball, he instantly called for a review only to belatedly realise Jonny Bairstow had already used it up.

Roy lost his cool, remonstrating on the pitch and on his reluctant walk off, and needed soothing words from umpire Marais Erasmus to stop things getting worse.

The sour tone of his dismissal cannot detract from his outstanding efforts, which almost single-handedly banished England's concerns about chasing, nor from the raucous celebrations which followed on the back of a decisive stand of 79 between Joe Root (49no) and Eoin Morgan (45no).

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