The umpires made an "error of judgement" in awarding six runs, instead of five, to England for the overthrow that hit Ben Stokes' bat and ran to the boundary, says Simon Taufel, confirming the story that ESPNcricinfo broke right after the World Cup 2019 final. Currently part of the MCC's laws sub-committee that makes the rules governing cricket, Taufel told foxsports.com.au that England should have been awarded five runs, not six.

"It's a clear mistake.. it's an error of judgment," Taufel said. "They (England) should have been awarded five runs, not six."

Law 19.8, pertaining to "Overthrow or wilful act of fielder", says: "If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be any runs for penalties awarded to either side, and the allowance for the boundary, and the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act."

A review of the footage of the incident - which took place off the fourth ball of the last over - shows clearly that, at the moment the ball was released by the New Zealand fielder, Martin Guptill, Stokes and his partner, Adil Rashid, had not yet crossed for their second run.

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Taufel also said that Stokes and Rashid should have switched ends once the run was found to be incomplete - which meant Rashid would have played the fifth ball with three runs required to win.

Taufel defended the officials, saying the moment involved many things happening at the same time. "In the heat of what was going on, they thought there was a good chance the batsmen had crossed at the instant of the throw," Taufel said.

"Obviously TV replays showed otherwise. The difficulty you (umpires) have here is you've got to watch batsmen completing runs, then change focus and watch for the ball being picked up, and watch for the release (of the throw)," he said.

"You also have to watch where the batsmen are at that exact moment."

The former umpire acknowledged the call "influenced the game", but said it should not be viewed as costing New Zealand the match - and the tournament.

"It's unfair on England, New Zealand and the umpires involved to say it decided the outcome," Taufel said.

Is it title or bust for Anthony Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers? How will the All-NBA big man adjust to sharing the court with LeBron James? What would Davis have changed about his public and prolonged exit from the New Orleans Pelicans?

Following his introductory news conference, we sat down with the Lakers' biggest summer acquisition as he dished on his new franchise, leaving New Orleans, his involvement in recruiting Kawhi Leonard and why he's not yet thinking beyond 2019-20 in Los Angeles.

MONTEREY, Calif. – Garrett Gerloff fulfilled a life-long dream Sunday in the Championship of Monterey, as the 23-year-old Texan won the first MotoAmerica Superbike race of his career in front of a record crowd at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

In what was his 32nd career Superbike race in his sophomore season in the class, Gerloff was dominant. The two-time Supersport champion was second off the start behind Toni Elias, made the pass early, and was never headed, pulling away to a 4.449-second win.

With Gerloff, who earned his second career Superbike pole position on Saturday, riding off into the sunset, the battle for second was just that.

The protagonists were Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias and Gerloff’s Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory Racing teammate Cameron Beaubier, and the pair exchanged body blows to the bitter end with Elias coming out on top by just .326 seconds after 23 laps of the 2.2-mile WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

“It feels so good,” Gerloff said of his first win. “I was telling the TV earlier, I know it’s just a race win and these guys get wins all the time and I used to, but I haven’t for a while. There’s been a lot of emotions the past year and a half, getting used to the Superbike and everything. These guys haul ass everywhere. It’s tough, stiff competition out there.

“It’s been a long road. There’s been a lot of ups and downs. To finally get it and to do it here even more in front of the World Superbike guys and everything, it’s just something that I’ve wanted for so long, something that’s been on my bucket list forever,” he added. “When I started racing, I was watching the MotoAmerica guys, AMA guys back in the day. That was one of the things that I wanted to accomplish in my life. To finally say that I got just one win, it just feels awesome. I’m ecstatic, for sure.”

The second-place finish for Elias may not have been a win on the day, but it was as far as the championship goes, as he now leads Beaubier by 39 points, 246-207.

Gerloff, meanwhile, is third in the series standings with 181 points after his first career Superbike victory.

Beaubier was third for the second day in a row after controlling most of practice and qualifying. Fourth place went Elias’ Yoshimura Suzuki teammate Josh Herrin, the Georgian in the mix for second place early in the race before fading back to the clutches of Attack Performance Estenson Racing’s JD Beach.

Herrin was able to beat Beach to the line by some two seconds.

Westby Racing’s Mathew Scholtz rebounded from a race crash yesterday to finish sixth today, the South African holding off Scheibe Racing BMW’s Jake Gagne at the finish.

M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Jake Lewis was eighth with Omega Moto’s Cameron Petersen and Uribe Racing’s Jayson Uribe rounding out the top 10 finishers.

To wrap up the weekend, the Supersport class took to the track for their one scheduled race at the MotoAmerica Championship of Monterey, and it was a good one, especially for M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Bobby Fong.

The California rider got a great jump off the front row at the start, and also got the holeshot over Rickdiculous Racing Yamaha rider Hayden Gillim. Fong was never headed in the race, and Gillim ultimately crashed out unhurt, which contributed to Fong taking the victory over second-place finisher PJ Jacobsen.

The win vaulted Fong into the Supersport Championship lead with an 18-point advantage over Gillim in second.

Sunday’s Liqui Moly Junior Cup race was another dominant performance by Ninja400R.com/Norton Motorsports/Dr. Farr Kawasaki rider Rocco Landers, who started from the pole and led from start to finish to notch his seventh win out of nine races so far this year.

PORTLAND, Ore. – West Pro/Am team Jon Miller and Harry Gottsacker won Sunday afternoon’s GT4 America SprintX race at Portland Int’l Raceway, part of the 59th annual Rose Cup Races presented by Fastlife.TV.

Matt Travis and Jason Hart won the national Pro/Am class.

Overall race pole-sitter and West Am competitor Drew Staveley led the pack to the line for the 60-minute, 45-lap contest. Third-on-the-grid Pro/Am driver Hart had a great start and vaulted up into second through turn one.

West Pro/Am class driver Jason Wolfe started second and slotted in behind Hart in third. In the SprintX Am division, Matthew Keegan slotted into seventh overall on the first lap.

On lap two, Hart and Wolfe would go side by side through turn one, with the driver of the No. 38 machine taking back second. Gottsacker moved up into fourth at that point.

The leaders held their positions through lap 19 and into the 10-minute pit window for driver changes. Gottsacker was the first of the lead group into the pits and handed over the reins to teammate Miller. Keegan then came in and handed over to Preston Calvert.

Wolfe came into the pits on the 23rd lap, with teammate Samantha Tan getting behind the wheel. On lap 24, Hart came in and handed over to Travis. Staveley remained out on track and came in just before the pit window expired on lap 25.

With the pit window closed, Frank Gannett exited the pits behind the wheel of the No. 24 machine and reassumed the overall race lead, with Travis in second, Tan in third and Miller fourth. Calvert slotted into ninth overall and first in Am.

By lap 26, Travis passed Gannett for the overall race lead, Miller had moved past Tan into third, and Rearden Racing’s Vesko Kozarovhad charged up into fifth – teammate Jeff Burton started 15th on the day.

Calvert remained in ninth overall and first in the Am class. Miller continued his charge to the front passing Gannett through turn one on lap 30 and then Travis on lap 34.

Kozarov then began hunting down Gannett for the West Am lead and moved up into fourth overall in the race. By lap 38, Kozarov caught Gannett and executed a pass through turns eight and nine to move up into third overall and first in the West Am category.

Kozarov then passed Travis to slot into second overall in the race.

At the checkered, Miller crossed the line ahead of Kozarov, Travis, Gannett and Tan.

Calvert finished 10th overall and first in Am, while Miller and Gottsacker claimed the West Pro/Am win, with Kozarov and Burton coming in as winners of the West Am division.

Travis and Hart won the national Pro/Am class.

“The race went well. I was able to have a clean start, held my ground and was able to give Jon (Miller) a great race car,” said Gottsacker in victory circle. “Jon literally just tore them up out there and went straight to the front and got a good gap to finish it.”

“It was an awesome race. Two green flag races all the way which is for our driver pairing Harry (Gottsacker) and I we hope for green flag racing,” added Miller. “It plays into our strategy. That’s what happened this weekend and especially today. Harry set the pace up from and left me some tires at the end which for our car; that’s where we struggle is keeping the tires on it. I just took it to the end and the overall win. Super happy.”

TORONTO – Roman De Angelis is in a league of his own this year in Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada by Yokohama competition, as he showcased once again over the weekend at Indy Toronto.

In a rare statistical feat, De Angelis started from the pole position in both rounds of the doubleheader weekend after having posted the two fastest laps in Saturday’s qualifying, with both laps eight and nine being an identical time of one minute, 12.966 seconds.

The first instance scored him the pole for race one on Saturday, while the second scored him the pole for race two – for which the grid is set by either a driver’s second quickest qualifying lap or their fastest lap in Race 1 – whichever is fastest.

On Sunday, the 18-year-old from Belle River, Ontario, took ownership of the lead from the drop of the green flag and proceeded on to another flag-to-flag victory as he did on Saturday.

It was De Angelis’ third consecutive weekend sweep in GT3 Cup Challenge Canada and seventh consecutive victory through eight rounds of the season.

As De Angelis described, the only difference between his race one win on Saturday and his race two victory on Sunday was the weather.

Drivers faced mixed weather conditions for the first race of the doubleheader, while Sunday offered sunny skies and higher temperatures.

“The heat definitely plays a factor when you’re driving, especially when there’s not a lot going on around you,” said De Angelis. “It was kind of quiet out there today, so trying to keep focused with the heat. You’re sweating and we’re losing our energy pretty much the whole time. Just trying to keep focused is really difficult.”

With four rounds remaining, De Angelis holds a strong lead in the GT3 Cup Challenge Canada championship. The next two rounds will take place at Road America on Aug. 2-4, which will be the second and final joint event of the year with Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama, which De Angelis also competes in.

The first came in June at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, which was De Angelis first doubleheader victory of the GT3 Cup Challenge Canada season.

“I’m looking forward to Road America. I think Montreal was really fun and a great event for us in general, so hopefully we can do the same thing we did there. It’s always fun when the Americans and the Canadians go at it together, especially being part of both, so I’m really looking forward to that.”

Finishing second on the podium in both races at Indy Toronto was Jeff Kingsley in the No. 16 Policaro Motorsport Porsche.

Third on the leaderboard and also earning the Yokohama Tire Hard Charger Award for gaining the most positions during the 45-minute race was Michael Di Meo in the No. 96 Porsche for OpenRoad Racing.

Di Meo, at his hometown event, started seventh on the grid but ended up on the podium, even despite a scratch against the wall to start the race.

“We started seventh and in a field where all the cars are so closely matched, it’s tough to even gain one position in a race, let alone we came back to third,” said Di Meo. “We just drove hard, never lost focus even though we hit the wall pretty good in the first couple laps. I thought the car was going to be pretty mangled because it felt like a hard hit. The guys came on the radio and just said to stay calm, let the race come to you and drive it, whatever it is, just drive it and keep going.

“One by one we got lucky and we picked some people off and maintained the pace, which I thought was pretty good despite the car we had. I couldn’t believe we ended up in third.”

Meanwhile, following in the footsteps of his Mark Motors teammate, Marco Cirone in the No. 88 Porsche scored his fourth consecutive Platinum Masters victory, after sweeping the weekend at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park last week and doing so again this weekend.

Cirone is in search of his sixth GT3 Cup Challenge Canada Platinum Masters championship

“That was fantastic,” said Cirone. “The team as usual gives me an awesome car. Today I woke up and I said, ‘I’m going to try as hard, I’m not going to be as timid as I was yesterday considering the conditions.’ I woke up to drive this morning. I was very aggressive. I tried to stay as clean as possible and the results were great for us. Finishing fourth overall and first in Masters, I couldn’t ask for any better.”

An incident early in the race halted on-track action for about 10 minutes, with the No. 99 Kelly-Moss/AM Motorsports Porsche Alan Metni scraping the wall and careening into the back of Patrick Dussault’s No. 77 Lauzon Autosport Porsche.

While both cars made strong impact into the turn nine tire barriers, each driver was able to walk away.

KNOXVILLE, Iowa – Tony Shilling of Knoxville took the 31st annual Marion County Fair Enduro at Knoxville Raceway Sunday night.

In a race that went the full 200 laps, the win paid him $1,000 for his efforts.

Two-time Enduro winner Tyler Sutter seemed to have the car to beat, but suffered myriad of issues that needed three pit stops. He would eventually retire a handful of laps from the end.

Each time, Sutter had issues, Shilling would retake the lead in a classic battle of “the tortoise and the hare.” Shilling’s final pass for the lead came with 8:49 left in the event. His 200th lap coincided with the two hour time limit.

It was Shilling’s first Enduro win, but he does have a pair of 360 sprint car wins to his credit here. Des Moines native Blake Miller finished second for the second year in a row, pocketing $700, and Todd Zobe grabbed $500 for third.

Just three red flag periods were encountered along the way for various reasons, such as debris on the track, as well as removal of stalled cars which were in a dangerous position.

The finish:

1. 74, Tony Shilling, Knoxville, 200 (laps completed)
2. 1, Blake Miller, Des Moines
3. 17, Todd Zobel, Des Moines
4. 75, Marty Erdman, Jonesville, MN
5. 4, Branden Lee, Knoxville
6. 5m, Mike Goff, Lacona
7. 14T, Tyler Sutter, Pleasantville
8. 7x, Ryan Lundy, Knoxville
9. 51, Jason Everley, Knoxville
10. 4E, Brian Clarke, Knoxville
11. 00J, Joe Graves, Melcher-Dallas
12. 69, Chad DeJong, Knoxville
13. 10s, Dave Seddon, Knoxville
14. 78, Mike DeJong, Knoxville
15. 50, Wes Alexander, Melcher-Dallas
16. 47T, Cory Moore, Knoxville
17. 10, Trevor Flesher, Lacona
18. 22, Seth Vernon, Knoxville
19. 33m, Jamie Matheny, Des Moines
20. 75A, Brad Alexander, Melcher-Dallas

HARRISON, N.J. -- Dome Torrent believes the referee "100 percent" made a mistake that cost New York City FC in Sunday's 2-1 Hudson River Derby loss to the New York Red Bulls.

A 60th-minute header by midfielder Daniel Royer gave the Red Bulls the match-winning lead, but it was a controversial non-call in the build-up to the goal that proved to be the match's main talking point.

In the preceding play, NYCFC thought they had conceded a corner, a point backed up by the linesman pointing with his flag to signal as such. Instead, the Red Bulls took a quick throw-in -- catching NYCFC, who were setting up for a corner, in limbo -- and Cristian Casseres Jr. crossed into the box where Royer headed it beyond goalkeeper Sean Johnson.

The right call was in fact a throw-in, but referee Alan Kelly never signalled that he was overriding the linesman's call. NYCFC head coach Torrent told Kelly that the lack of a clear signal was the deciding factor in his team's loss at Red Bull Arena.

"I say: 'You make a mistake and you know that.' He know that, he know that 100 percent," Torrent said after the match.

"You have to review on the TV if you don't. It's clear. It's not just one second, it's three seconds."

NYCFC captain Alex Ring backed up Torrent's comments, before accusing referee Kelly of being "part of the Red Bull team."

"It's just a shame to lose the points because I think the referee had a horrible game today," Ring said.

"He doesn't say anything, he just let the play continue as if he is part of the Red Bull team.

"I think it is just common decency. If it's that clear, the linesman shows to the corner flag -- I agree that it is a throw-in because I saw it the same way and then you let everyone know.

"I talked with a couple of Red Bull players who were surprised as well. I think we have to speak about this because it is not the first time we've had games go against us because of the referee."

What happened after the goal was organized chaos around Kelly, with nearly every NYCFC player on the field surrounding him angrily for several minutes. The protests continued after the match, with players and the staff arguing as Kelly walked off the field and through the tunnel at Red Bull Arena.

Alex Muyl, who made the quick decision to take a throw-in, didn't see the linesman signal a corner kick. He also didn't see any indication from Kelly that it was a throw-in or any other call. He just threw the ball in.

"For me, it was clearly a throw-in, that's why I threw it in," Muyl told ESPN FC. "If I had seen him put a corner, I would have gotten ready for a corner."

Australia women's vice-captain Rachael Haynes expects to be fit for the Women's Ashes Test starting on Thursday despite battling a tight quad.

Haynes was forced to retire on 47 during the first innings of Australia's three-day tour match against the England Academy at Marlborough. She did not bat in the second innings as Australia won by 240 runs. But the left-hander was confident she would be fit for the Test match.

"It's nothing too serious to be honest," Haynes said. "I just had a bit of tightness in my quad. I guess there's an opportunity now to have a couple of days to freshen up. I feel good. I went for a run this morning so I think I'll be fine."

Australia lead the multi-format Ashes series 6-0 after claiming two points for winning each of the three ODIs to start the series. A win in the Test match at Taunton would yield four points but even a draw would secure two and be enough for Australia to retain the Ashes, with just six points available in the last three T20Is to finish the series.

Australia's biggest issue is which players to select for the Test following a dominant display in the warm-up game. Young fast bowler Tayla Vlaeminck did not play in the ODIs but took 4 for 31 and 1 for 19 in the tour game to put her name forward. Sophie Molineux was drafted into the squad after the ODIs were completed and put herself firmly in the selection frame with unbeaten scores of 65 and 33, as well as five wickets with her left-arm spin. She took 4 for 30 in the fourth innings, knocking over Fran Wilson and Danielle Wyatt, both of whom featured in the ODIs for England.

Haynes said she did not envy the selectors task of picking the final Test XI.

"It's going to be really tough. There's going to be some disappointed people I think. But the best thing about the tour match was lots of people put their hands up and put their names forward and it's a nice position to be in where you've got to make some tough decisions, so no doubt the selectors will sit down and work out what the best combination is for the Test.

"You play one Test match every 18 months and it's a really special occasion. We've got the possibility of maybe five players debuting. It's really exciting for the team but no doubt there's going to some people disappointed

Kane Williamson admitted it was "tough to swallow" the fact that the number of boundaries struck by each side eventually decided the World Cup winners. England and New Zealand were equal on runs after both the regulation part of the match and the Super Overs that followed, but England had scored a total of 26 boundaries to New Zealand's 17, including the Super Overs.

When asked if the system was a fair way to decide a World Cup final, Williamson was typically gracious while admitting the situation was completely unexpected.

"I suppose you never thought you would have to ask that question and I never thought I would have to answer it," said Williamson with a wry smile. "Yeah, while the emotions are raw, it is pretty hard to swallow when two teams have worked really, really hard to get to this moment in time and when sort of two attempts to separate them with a winner and a loser it still doesn't perhaps sort of shine with one side coming through, you know. It is what it is, really. The rules are there at the start."

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"No one probably thought they would have to sort of result to some of that stuff. But yeah, very tough to swallow. A great game of cricket and all you guys probably enjoyed it.

"The rules are there I guess, aren't they, and certainly something you don't consider going into the match that maybe if we could have an extra boundary and then tied two attempts at winning it we will get across the line and they didn't think that either."

"I don't even know what the boundary count was but we were slightly behind. Yeah, very, very tough to - yeah, there you go."

Eoin Morgan said England considered the possibility of it coming into force during their chase but were also mindful of the rule before the match.

"When we took the field," said Morgan, when asked at which stage he knew that boundaries would decide the match in the case of a tied Super Over. "I asked what would happen because we sat in a meeting pre-tournament and then when it got close to the chase we started refreshing our minds whether it was going to be a Super Over or not and then communication from [fourth official] Aleem Dar up to the changing room before we batted and then reaffirmed when we went out to field."

A 151-run first-wicket stand between Ruturaj Gaikwad (85) and Shubman Gill (62) set up India's first-innings total of 255, after which pacer Navdeep Saini ran through West Indies A with a five-wicket haul to give India A a 2-0 lead over West Indies A.

Between them, Gayakwad and Gill struck nine fours and three sixes to bat nearly 31 overs, but a solid comeback from Romario Shepherd (4-36) in the death overs restricted India A from posting an even bigger total. The captain Manish Pandey, Ishan Kishan and Hanuma Vihari were all dismissed in their twenties.

West Indies A began their chase poorly, losing John Campbell in the second over to Khaleel Ahmed. When Saini came to bowl, in as second-change, he dismantled the back-bone of West Indies A, removing Sunil Ambris, Roston Chase and Jonathan Carter.

From 77 for 5, West Indies A clawed their way to a respectable 190 courtesy Raymon Reifer's fighting 71, but with no support from the other end, West Indies fell 65 runs short with nearly six overs still to play. Shephard capped off a solid all-round day for himself by staying not out for 34.