The ball deflected off England’s Ben Stokes, to reach the boundary should have resulted in just five runs, not six, says former umpire Simon Taufel.
A freak fielding deflection off Ben Stokes’ bat that raced to the boundary saw the team awarded six runs with three balls to go in the final over on Sunday. But former umpire Simon Taufel told Fox Sports Australia that umpires had made a “clear mistake”, as the batsmen had not crossed for their second run.
Taufel, a five-time winner of the International Cricket Council’s Umpire of the Year award, now sits on the Marylebone Cricket Club laws sub-committee, the worldwide custodian of cricket’s sometimes obscure rules of play.
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