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World Cup Final: Did Ben Stokes ask umpires to take 4 overthrow runs back? Dharamsena says 'no'

Jimmy Anderson had claimed that Ben Stokes had asked the umpires to take away the four overthrows that proved decisive in the World Cup 2019.

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The six runs awarded to England from an overthrow in the World Cup final caused a lot of controversy. The runs were awarded after Martin Guptill's throw deflected off Ben Stokes' bat to the boundary in the dying stages of the England run chase.

According to a section of the British media, Ben Stokes had wanted the umpires to take off the boundary. However, umpire Kumar Dharmasena who made that controversial call has said that there were no such appeal.

Sri Lankan website The Island quoted Dharamsena as saying "there were no such calls made". 

England cricketer Jimmy Anderson had claimed that Stokes had asked the umpires to take away the four overthrows that proved decisive in the match. 

Having taken into account the two completed runs and the resultant boundary from the overthrow, Stokes was awarded six runs, though some experts have opined that he should only have got five, which would have left England a run short of New Zealand's total.

Anderson had said that the England all-rounder, who apologised for the moment the incident happened by raising his hands, had appealed to the umpires to overturn their decision.

"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. But if it goes to the boundary, in the rules it's four and you can't do anything about it," Anderson told the BBC's Tailenders podcast.

"I think, talking to Michael Vaughan who saw him (Stokes) after the game, Ben Stokes actually went to the umpires and said, 'Can you take that four runs off. We don't want it'. But it's in the rules and that's the way it is," added Anderson.

Stokes had never admitted to calling the umpire to give the run back. After the final, he had said he might have to say sorry "for the rest of my life" for the extra runs which he labelled "fluke". 

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