All true, but still- it`s not as if the match was heading towards a major finale anyway, NZ were extremely comfortably ahead anyway. OK so it happened in the heat of the moment- but the captain still has the right to withdraw the appeal, which wasn`t done.

I know this sort of incident does actually happen, but I would always prefer to keep within what is IMO the spirit of the game- no run was attempted, ok so it was stupid and absent-minded to leave the crease to congratulate his teammate, but wasn`t this also something that just happened in the heat of the moment?