The most controversial moment in ODI cricket history came off the bat of English all-rounder Ben Stokes in the 2019 World Cup final.
England needed nine runs off three balls to lift the trophy at Lord's. Stokes was coming back for a second run when a ball thrown by Martin Guptill hit his bat while he was diving for the crease and went for a boundary.
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The boundary meant England were awarded six runs and ultimately led to a super over in which England won on countback
England cricketing legend James Anderson told BBC's podcast The Tailenders that England hero Stokes asked the umpires to take away the boundary.
"The etiquette in cricket is if the ball is thrown at the stumps and it hits you and goes into a gap in the field you don't run," Anderson said.
"But if it goes to the boundary, in the rules it's four and you can't do anything about it.
"I think, talking to Michael Vaughan who saw him after the game, Ben Stokes actually went to the umpires and said, 'Can you take that four runs off. We don't want it," Anderson told the BBC podcast.
"But it's in the rules and that’s the way it is - it's been talked about for a while among the players, potentially being a dead ball if it does hit the batsman and veer off somewhere."
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