{"id":2207,"date":"2019-07-16T10:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2019-07-16T10:58:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:58:01","slug":"new-zealand-coach-wants-rules-review-after-hollow-world-cup-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/new-zealand-coach-wants-rules-review-after-hollow-world-cup-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand coach wants rules review after ‘hollow’ World Cup defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Zealand coach Gary Stead has called for the Cricket World Cup’s rules to be overhauled, labelling the showpiece final \u201chollow\u201d after England\u00a0defeated<\/a>\u00a0the Black Caps on a technicality.<\/p>\n

The teams could not be separated at the end of both regular play and a Super Over shootout, so England were handed victory because they had a superior boundary count.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a very, very hollow feeling that you can play 100 overs and score the same amount of runs and still lose the game, but that’s the technicalities of sport,\u201d Stead told reporters in remarks released by New Zealand Cricket on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He said such a thrilling match, which has been hailed by many experts as the greatest one-day game in history, deserved a better way to determine the result.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s going to be many things they look at over the whole tournament \u2014 I’m sure when they were writing the rules they never expected a World Cup final to happen like that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m sure it’ll be reviewed (and) there’s many different ways that they’ll probably explore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stead shrugged off suggestions England had been mistakenly handed an extra run after a throw from a fielder hit the bat of a diving Ben Stokes’ and deflected to the boundary in the final over of regular play.<\/p>\n

England were awarded six runs but former umpire\u00a0Simon Taufel said<\/a>\u00a0they should only have got five as the batsmen had not crossed for their second run when the throw was made.<\/p>\n

Taufel told\u00a0Fox Sports Australia<\/em>\u00a0that the umpires had made a \u201cclear mistake\u201d, as the batsmen had not crossed for their second run when the ball was thrown in by the fielder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should have been awarded five runs, not six,\u201d he said, adding that England’s Adil Rashid should have faced the second-last ball instead of Stokes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re human as well, like players, and sometimes there’s a mistake but that’s just the human aspect of sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

‘We are world champions’<\/h2>\n

England director of cricket Ashley Giles, when asked if he was concerned about Taufel’s comments, said on Monday: \u201cNot really.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former England spinner added: \u201cYou could argue the last ball that (Trent) Boult bowled was a full toss on leg stump and if Stokes hadn’t just been looking for two, he probably would’ve banged it out of the ground anyway.<\/p>\n

‘We didn’t lose’<\/h2>\n

New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson pointed out his team was not defeated on the pitch, saying it instead fell victim to \u201cfine print\u201d in the rules.<\/p>\n

He said that was a shame but the New Zealanders had signed up to the rules that governed the tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day nothing separated us, no one lost the final, but there was a crowned winner and there it is,\u201d he told\u00a0Newstalk ZB<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The New Zealand captain and his teammates have been widely praised for the grace with which they accepted the gut-wrenching defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don’t need to smash your equipment, yell at the umpire, or swear at and threaten rival batsmen, even with the stress of a World Cup on your mind; this news will be foreign territory to some.\u201d<\/p>\n

There have been calls in New Zealand to give the team a ticker-tape parade, regardless of the result.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that was unlikely but she wanted to ensure that the players received \u201ca heroes’ welcome\u201d when they returned to the country.<\/p>\n

New Zealand Cricket said they were in discussions with the government about when that would take place.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment, however, with some players arriving back at different times, some not arriving back at all, and others having alternative playing commitments, it’s just not practical,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Zealand coach Gary Stead has called for the Cricket World Cup’s rules to be overhauled, labelling the showpiece final \u201chollow\u201d after England\u00a0defeated\u00a0the Black Caps on a technicality. The teams could not be separated at the end of both regular play and a Super Over shootout, so England were handed victory because they had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","category-world","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}