I don't understand why most cricket finals match are one sided. In the final match of the 2024 Major league Cricket Tournament, Washington Freedom and San Francisco Unicorns faced each other for the title fight. Washington Freedom batted first in this match and they gave their proper performance according to their strengths. As a result of which their team was able to collect more than 200 runs, on the other hand, San Francisco Unicorns tried well in the beginning but later turned into a wreck. The SFU team kept losing one wicket after another at regular intervals as a result of which they were all out to collect few runs.
That is game of pressure. In final match , if any team gave 200+ target the that team has 99.9 percent chances of win because they have to play with 10 runs per over and if any bowler gained 1 wicket then there will be more pressure on players and players will lose wickets and they will out out by making few runs. The same situation we saw in the final match of League match San Francisco Unicorns
And Washington Freedom San Francisco . We expected that there will be good match but we saw Washington Freedom
San Francisco team as a dominant team . They applied pressure from thr Start of match and We did not see San Francisco Unicorns team in the match. We are habitual to see that kind of final matches but this trend should be change but that is not in our control because final match is control of nerves and if any team controled on their nerves ,that team will be successful.
Also I think your reason is good, most of the time final are one sided but I think from some where you are wrong because we have the some previous matches history as proof, the full game does not depend on pressure. As in 2016 when England almost won that final but Carlos hit 4 sixes in the last over and the West Indies won that match against England. In 2019 that was such a suspenseful moment which was won by the England, the game was even went on to the Super Over but England won it. In the last World Cup 2024, South Africa was nearly to win it but Surya Kumar catch built a success for India as well.
I think it is natural, this match is not fixed and naturally, anything could be happen as there we also have one sided final in 2017, when the Pakistan team has no hopes to won the final match but accidentally they won it against India with one-sided match. In 2007, in the Pakistan vs India final, at the last ball, Inzimam ul Haq hit the scoop shot but Ms Dhoni was clever and before that ball, he placed a fielder there where Inzimam hit shot as well. In 2023, the final match was also one-sided for Australia.
