Ben Stokes remained unbeaten on 84 during England’s chase in the World Cup final at Lord’s. © AFP England’s maiden World Cup triumph has been overshadowed by the manner in which the hosts were crowned as world champions. Martin Guptill’s overthrow that deflected off Ben Stokes’ bat cost New Zealand four extra runs which proved to be crucial in the context of match’s result. Former ICC umpire Simon Taufel said that the on-field umpires made an error and mistakenly awarded an extra run to England. However, James Anderson has said that Stokes went to the umpires and asked them to take away the four overthrows.Anderson said that Stokes, who was hugely apologetic the moment the incident happened, 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. I think, talking to Michael Vaughan who saw him after the game, Ben Stokes actually went to the umpires and said, ‘Can you take that four runs off….