Coming from you Rachael (one who always talks about the spirit of cricket) I know you are having me on. This could as easily be adopted in Test cricket, in that case, and turn the end of an innings to complete farce.

Anyway, Law 18.4a covers this piece of 'innovation'. It is not clever, it is simply cheating. A warning should have been given and any subsequent transgression would be penalised by awarding no runs.

In fact, I've just read your edit and seen you are not joking. It is not trying to deceive anyone then? Running a single and keeping the strike? Very interesting that someone could even try to defend this. Anyway, as I said above, the laws prohibit this. So end of chat.