Match referee accepts responsibility for farcical end

Match referee Jeff Crowe has taken full responsibility for the chaotic end to the final match of the World Cup at the Kensington Oval Saturday...

"It's a human error I guess, at the end of the day ... the match referee should have known and basically said that's not right, the game should be completed now," Crowe told reporters in a post-match media conference...

After long discussions involving match officials and with the captains and with the possibility of completing the match Sunday being raised, the match was finally restarted with Sri Lanka batting out the remaining three overs to finish at 215 for eight.

"The real confusion though occurred when it was suggested that the remaining overs would be completed tomorrow. I guess that's what put the teams in confusion [along with] the umpires and I guess the rest of you and everybody else at the ground and obviously [those] watching on television," Crowe said.

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