Ben Stokes, who was awarded Man of the Match in the finale of the World Cup, had asked the umpires to take away the four overthrow runs that proved decisive in the end.
Ben Stokes was running for the second run when a thrown from Martin Guptill got deflected off his bat and went for four runs.
The English batsman was awarded six runs which brought things in England’s control.
According to James Anderson, the English all-rounder had requested umpires to change 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,” Anderson told the BBC’s Tailenders podcast as the host nation continued to celebrate their World Cup breakthrough.
“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. We don’t want it’.
“But it’s in the rules and that’s the way it is.
“It’s been talked about for a while among the players, potentially that being a dead ball if it does hit the batsman and veer off somewhere.”