Cricket's lawmakers, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), are planning to review the overthrows law that played a significant part in the Blackcaps' defeat to England in the World Cup final.
The Times reports the MCC feels overthrows are worth looking at when it next reviews the laws of the game, which is the responsibility of the MCC laws sub-committee. As guardians of the game, the MCC periodically reviews the laws, although there is no fixed timetable for the next review.
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England were erroneously given an extra run in the final over of their chase when Martin Guptill's throw towards the crease and deflected off Ben Stokes' bat, and the ball then rolled to the boundary rope.
Umpires Marais Erasmus and Kumar Dharmasena awarded England six overthrows for the freak occurrence, but as Stokes and Adil Rashid had not crossed for a second run before Guptill threw the ball, the host nation should have only been awarded five.
That led to England tying the scores, and they then won the match in a 'super over', which was decided by a boundary countback after both teams scored 15 runs.
After the dramatic scenes at Lord's, former umpire Simon Taufel was the first to spot the error, which he described as "a clear mistake", but he was sympathetic towards the umpires who would have had to be looking in two different directions at once to notice.
When approached for comments, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said it was against its policy to react on decisions taken by umpires.
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