Britain 'erroneously' granted additional keep running in World Cup last: Simon Taufel



Britain were erroneously granted an additional kept running during their nailbiting World Cup prevail upon New Zealand at Lord's, an individual from the game's central guidelines advisory group told media Monday.

A monstrosity handling diversion off Ben Stokes' bat that hustled to the limit observed the group granted six keeps running with three balls to go in the last over on Sunday.

Scores were tied toward the finish of customary play and the subsequent Super Over shootout, with England at that point gave their first-historically speaking World Cup triumph for their predominant limit check.

In any case, previous umpire Simon Taufel disclosed to Fox Sports Australia that umpires had made a "reasonable misstep", as the batsmen had not crossed for their subsequent run.

"They ought to have been granted five runs, not six," he stated, including that England's Adil Rashid ought to have confronted the second-last ball rather than Stokes therefore.

Taufel, a five-time victor of the International Cricket Council's Umpire of the Year grant, presently sits on the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) laws sub-board of trustees, the overall caretaker of cricket's occasionally dark guidelines of play.

The Australian shielded the match umpires, who he said needed to make a confused judgment and said it would be "unjustifiable" to state the choice changed the result of the competition.

"Sadly that kind of thing occurs every once in a while. It's a piece of the game that we play," Taufel said.

"I don't wish to nitpick, simply trust it never occurs at such times until the end of time."

Britain, who have regularly refered to a mortifying destruction by New Zealand at the 2015 World Cup as the impetus for their move to the highest point of the one-day worldwide rankings, at long last have a World Cup win to go with their three losing appearances in the 1979, 1987 and 1992 finals.

On the other hand, rout is destroying for New Zealand, who were additionally hoping to win the trophy just because subsequent to being very much beaten by Australia in the 2015 show-stopper.

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