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{{lordsanat|19.8}}Yesterday’s enrapturing Cricket | {{lordsanat|19.8}}Yesterday’s enrapturing Cricket World Cup final threw up a key decision, when, three balls from the end of the match, Martin Guptill’s throw from deep-midwicket, which was going to be a direct hit and run Ben Stokes out<ref>Prove it wouldn’t have okay?</ref>, cannoned off the back of Stokes’ flailing bat as he dived desperately to get anywhere near the crease before it did, and ran down and over the boundary for overthrows. | ||
[[File:Six.png|thumb|left|Six! I mean, ah, five!]] With haste which might transpire to be unseemly, Umpire Dharmasena held up six fingers: Four runs for the overthrow and two for the runs the outfield batsmen completed. But a quick look at Law 19.8 tells a different story. | [[File:Six.png|thumb|left|Six! I mean, ah, five!]] With haste which might transpire to be unseemly, Umpire Dharmasena held up six fingers: Four runs for the overthrow and two for the runs the outfield batsmen completed. But a quick look at Law {{lordsprov|19.8}} tells a different story: where the boundary results from “an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder”, the runs scored shall be (a) any applicable penalties (''wides or no-balls: here, none''); (b) the allowance for the boundary (''four''); (c) completed runs ([[one]]) | ||
''together with the run in progress '''if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act'''.'' | |||
The wilful act in question — also as it happens, a throw — is Martin Guptill’s from deep midwicket. The ball’s deflection by Ben Stokes’ bat from what was obviously its true path to obliterate the wicket is certainly not a “throw”, much less a “wilful act of a fielder” — it has no cricketing significance at all, in fact — so the question is where were the batsmen at the time Guptill let the ball go. | |||
[[File:Uncrossed2.png|thumb|left]]And at that point, they had not crossed, as this picture demonstrates. Now there is a kicker, because, having only scored one run, Stokes and Rashid should have been sent back to where they started that run, with Stokes at the non-striker’s end. | |||
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