Mark Wood and Jaydev Unadkat were dismissed in the final over and Ravi Bishnoi was nearly ‘mankaded’ from the last ball.
Harsha Patel attempted to remove the bails but somehow missed the stumps, only to turn around and throw down the stumps as Bishnoi dived back. However, the umpires bizarrely opted not to review the run-out, and instead called it a dead ball.
A recent clarification of the rules surrounding Mankads says that any attempt to run out the nonstriker must come before “the moment the bowler’s arm reaches the highest point of his/her normal bowling action in the delivery swing”.
But Patel did not enter any delivery swing, meaning a dead ball should not have called. And it is explicitly stated in the laws that the ball remains live if the bowler attempts a run-out.
Clause 20.4.2 says that the ball is dead if: “the ball does not leave the bowler’s hand for any reason other than an attempt to run out the nonstriker”.
With the scores level and a super over beckoning, number 11 Avesh Khan scampered a bye and threw his helmet in celebration – something he was later reprimanded for.