I am late in on this- Randiv bowled a no-ball to deny Sehwag his century, and every paper I read excoriates Randiv and Sri Lanka, and sermonises on something called sportsmanship- an endangered beast, if not yet extinct.
I think the administrators need to take some of the blame: okay, India needed one to win, Randiv bowls a no-ball, one run given, match over, no matter that Sehwag hit it for a six.
But what if India had needed two at that stage, and the same thing had happened? Sehwag would have got those runs, right?
The rule is clear on that score- at least in Wikipedia when I last looked at it: "The run awarded for the no ball is not credited to an individual batsman's score but is tallied separately as part of the team's score. Any additional runs scored by the batsman off the bat, whether by running or by a boundary, are included in the batsman's score."
It is not right that the same action yields two different results under different conditions- they should change these rules, unless they are playing God, imho.
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