BBC SPORT | Cricket | England | Last-ball error hands NZ victory:
New Zealand won a remarkable one-day international when England somehow allowed last man Mark Gillespie to hit two from the final ball of the match.
He scampered a single and came back for the overthrow when Graeme Swann's shy at the stumps was not backed up.
Earlier, Grant Elliott, guiding the tourists home, was controversially run out as he was injured in a collision with England's Ryan Sidebottom.
The wicket could have been crucial, but England's modest 245 was not enough.
I think most people who watched the match thought that it was supremely unfair that Elliot should have been given out after what looked like a rugby tackle by Sidebottom, and rejoiced greatly that the English fielding bungle enabled New Zealand to win.
Perhaps the rules should be changed to say that a batsman cannot be given out in a run out if physically obstructed by a member of the fielding team, otherwise cricket could turn into a variant of Red Rover.
2 comments:
Sign of too much money influencing cricket...maybe the players will start diving like footballers soon
Ah, I miss watching cricket... Baseball is not bad, but it just ain't cricket......
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