Alert Rahane, and Faulkner's foot-fault

KL Rahul had just come to the crease, and David Warner, having raced to 21 off 14, was eager to get back on strike. So when Rahul tried to work Tim Southee into the leg side and sent a leading edge running away to the left of Ajinkya Rahane at backward point, Warner set off for the single. It was going towards Rahane's weaker hand, so he had to move around the ball to get within throwing range, but maybe the batsmen hadn't realised how close it was to him. Or how quickly Rahane would move to it. By the time he had swooped down low and set himself up to throw, Warner still had plenty of pitch to cover, and gave up sprinting, slowing to a trot and hoping Rahane would miss the stumps. He wouldn't. Warner was out by a good four feet.

Sunrisers Hyderabad had stuttered to 55 for 3 in 10 overs, and they looked to have lost their fourth wicket off the second ball of the 11th, when Naman Ojha, hurried into a pull by a quick short ball from James Faulkner, top-edged a catch to the wicketkeeper. The umpires asked Ojha to wait; they wanted to check Faulkner's front foot. Had he overstepped? The third umpire pondered this question for what seemed the duration of a normal Twenty20 innings, including strategic time-outs, from every possible angle. And all the care and attention was warranted; it really needed that many replays to confirm that while Faulkner's heel had landed right on the back edge of the popping crease, no part of it was behind the line.

In his previous over, Pravin Tambe had bowled Ojha, ripping a quick, sharp legbreak past his outside edge. Now, with the left-handed Eoin Morgan on strike, he tossed the ball up a bit slower, enticing him to try and drive him down the ground. Morgan fell for the bait, didn't get to the pitch, and saw the ball turn away from him rather than into him. Overbalancing, he turned back, expecting the keeper to have stumped him, but Sanju Samson had failed to deal with the extra bounce, and the ball had cannoned off his gloves. Having survived that close call, Morgan played his favourite shot off the next ball - the reverse-sweep. The ball was too full for the shot, though, and it hit his pad in front of middle stump, almost on the half-volley. The umpire's finger went up, and Tambe roared in celebration.

Ajinkya Rahane was on 9 when Trent Boult swung one into him from left-arm over. The ball thudded into Rahane's front pad, which had wandered across the stumps, and left his bat no room to come down and connect with the attempted flick. Boult spun around to appeal, arms imploringly wide. It looked plumb - pitching on middle, hitting below the knee-roll, hitting middle stump - and replays only confirmed it. But umpire Paschim Pathak didn't think so.

Somehow, having had seven wickets in hand to get 12 runs from 12 balls, Rajasthan Royals had managed to get themselves into a potentially losing situation. They needed 4 off 5 when Praveen Kumar bowled a wide-ish yorker that Stuart Binny jabbed away to the left of point. Eoin Morgan stopped it with a full-length dive, and bounced onto his feet to find an uncertain Binny stuck halfway down the pitch. Morgan fired a throw at the bowler's end and missed, with Binny still yards short. Ravi Bopara, running in from mid-on, also failed to collect the ball properly.