Simon Taufel Declares That Umpires Made Error In Judging The Overthrow

Whoever watched the World Cup Final 2019 would have not missed the last over which was the most exciting over of the match. The turn of events that took place in this over was super tense. One of which was the controversial overthrow. It happened while Rashid and Stokes were on the field. Stokes had hit the ball mid-wicket and was attempting to take the second run when the ball got overthrown by the bat of Stokes and rolled over to the boundary.

The umpires reviewed and signaled for a six. This outspread chaos among the fans who were wondering how the team was awarded six runs. However, in the heat of the moment, the judgment wasn’t reanalyzed and a super over was given after which England ended up winning even though it was a tie between the two teams. The winners were announced based on the number of boundaries they hit in the match. 

Stokes did an apologizing gesture to the team New Zealand right then and there for accidentally hitting the throw. And said that he wouldn't forgive himself for this. But the damage was already done to the opposing team with the Umpire giving England six runs.

But after England’s win, social media was flooding with critics coming up with justifications as to why the 6 runs given to England weren’t justified. Anyhow no comments were passed by the ICC officially so these were just public opinions.

What added weight to the judgments was the statement given by the World’s Once Best Umpire Simon Taufel. This statement obviously was concerned about the number of runs awarded to England which lead them towards the win.

The former number one Umpire called this judgment a “clear mistake”. He reinforced that the Kumar Dharmasena and Marais Erasmus made a mistake in judging the overthrow.

Stokes and Rashid had not crossed each other when the fielder released the ball. According to the rule when the action takes place only all the completed runs would be counted. Which in this case was only one and not two? But the Umpires misjudged it and gave the team a 6.

This was based on the assumption that the batsmen might have crossed each other before the throw and eventually deserve the run to be awarded to them. However, in the later findings, it was found that Stokes and Rashid did not cross each other.

The criticism was not being taken seriously or being called legit until Simon Taufel shared his view. The weight that has been added to the apprehension of the overthrow has put ICC in a bad light. Since it wasn’t a small error, it cost the World Cup to New Zealand. Click here for more latest updates on cricket

ICC needs to take measures to correct the mistakes that were done in this tournament to compensate for the ones done this year. Otherwise, people would demand the reformation of ICC because this is just one of many mistakes ICC did this season.

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