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https://thirdballlocked.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/barest-of-margins.jpg20481188Going into the 2019 World Cup final, Kumar Dharmasena was the best umpire in cricket if you believed in ICC awards. Some 9 hours later, he was the reason why New Zealand lost the World Cup “by the barest of margins” and was globally castigated by most of the cricketing world. Because of a decision that gave England 6 runs instead of 5 and kept its best batter on strike, the final was tied, and later won by England in even more dramatical circumstances. Forty five days and forty eight games to decide the champion, only to end in technicality and a wrong umpiring decision. Or is it? Was Kumar Dharmasena the actual reason why New Zealand didn’t win the World Cup? **** Think about a victory – a victory of some player or team you support. How do you feel now? Happy? Relieved? Proud? Now think about a defeat. Think about a horrible, agonizingly close defeat. It hurts, doesn’t it? When reminiscing a major tournament win, we don’t actually feel happiness. We mostly recollect how happy we were that day. But a big game defeat? Heck, a big game defeat that went very close? That eats you up from...