Bravo and Watson's nutmeg

Hit a spinner down the ground, then sit back on your heels to hit the short ball next up - it's a batting strategy as well-trod as any in the game, but Brendon McCullum found a way to get out attempting it. Pravin Tambe's first ball was launched past the bowler - at catching height, but at great pace - and predictably, Tambe delivered a half-tracker next ball. McCullum should have hit that over midwicket perhaps, but expected the ball to turn away from him and tried to go over mid-on instead. In the end, he could only mishit it. The ball hit the splice of the bat and looped to mid-on, where James Faulkner took the catch.

In his first five overs as captain in this IPL season, Shane Watson rifled through his attack in search of wickets. Left-arm spinner Ankit Sharma was first to the bowling crease, then Chris Morris, Pravin Tambe, Deepak Hooda and James Faulkner had one over each respectively, meaning each of the first five overs was delivered by a different bowler. The ploy worked for Rajasthan Royals, who had the opposition at 39 for 2 at the end of the Powerplay.

Dwayne Bravo was positioned in the outfield partly because of his speed around the boundary, but his pace counted against him in the fifth over, when he conceded a boundary he could have saved. Zooming along the cow-corner fence to cut off an Ajinkya Rahane stroke, Bravo overran the ball, and made a last-second judgment to stop it with his boot. He overdid that as well, and the ball passed in between his feet and to the fence.

Shane Watson was the second man to get his legs into a tangle, but he had his pads on when it happened, and the game was almost won. Batting on 73 off 46 balls, Watson tried to squeeze a yorker off Ravindra Jadeja into the legside, but he fell over towards off and misjudged the pace of the ball, which snuck between his legs and clattered into the stumps.