Quote Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick View Post
The test is whether they had crossed when the ball was thrown, which they clearly had not.

It's obviously a pretty obscure part of the rules so I can well see how the umpire got it wrong, but he did get it wrong. They should have had the four runs from the overthrow, plus the runs completed (1); plus the run in progress if the batters had crossed when the ball was thrown. So 5.

But these things happen. The final ball would have played out differently had Stokes needed to hit a boundary and who is to say whether he would have managed it?

The point being it would have been Rashid on strike and not Stokes as they had only completed one run. It was a huge error by the umpires. It should have been four wanted off two with Rashid to face and not three off two with Stokes facing. They should have been aware of the rules and checked.