Holder's Crowe impression, Raza's airborne pull

Brian Chari and Chamu Chibhabha showed caution and judgement in the early exchanges under cloudy skies on a damp surface. Little did they know their solid opening stand would be halted by a chaotic run-out. At the start of the 11th over, Chari opened the face of his bat and eyed the third-man region. He, however, did not get enough bat on it, and the ball rolled a few feet to the right of the wicketkeeper Shai Hope. Pinching a single there was like barging into a house on fire. Ultimately, it was Chibhabha who came out burnt.

He set off immediately after Chari had met the ball. The batsman, instead of watching his partner, kept watching the ball. By the time Chari turned to face him, Chibhabha was almost next to him at the striker's end. Hope threw the ball to Carlos Brathwaite, who simply swiped the bails off at the non-striker's end.

Martin Crowe produced one of the greatest World Cup catches when he ran back and to his right from mid-on, and hung onto the ball, to dismiss Dave Houghton, looking over his shoulder, before tumbling onto the ground, in 1987. To do all this without being distracted by the fielder sprinting to his left from deep midwicket was special.

On Saturday in Bulawayo, Jason Holder did a Crowe. Two overs after the fall of Chibhabha, Chari advanced down the track and attempted a low-percentage cross-bat swipe. The ball soared into the cloudy skies over short midwicket. Holder tore back and across to his right with his eyes locked on the ball, even as Rovman Powell ran in to his left from deep square leg. Holder ultimately tumbled and came away with the ball in his hands, with Powell a few feet next to him. The celebrations were largely subdued: Holder just thew the ball in the air.

India have had their fair share of troubles with DRS in their home series against England. It seemed like West Indies had some troubles of their own in Bulawayo. Sikandar Raza shuffled a long way across and failed to connect with a paddle-sweep in the 22nd over. The ball brushed his pad and snuck away fine on the leg side. With the impact being wide outside off, umpire Russell Tiffin shot down the appeal from offspinner Ashley Nurse. Surprisingly, Holder challenged the on-field not-out decision. Projections showed the ball would carry on to hit off stump, but only one red flashed. The only change brought about by West Indies' review: replays suggested Raza had gloved the ball, and two leg-byes became two runs.

During the 2015 World Cup, Glenn Maxwell pulled off an outrageous shot, which he described as "the back away, look away, deliberate cut through point".

On Saturday, Raza unfurled the airborne, look-away pull. In the 31st over Holder tested the batsman with a throat-high short ball on off stump. Raza took his eyes off the ball as he took flight, but managed to place it to the right of square leg for four. It might have looked ungainly, but proved effective.

Like Achilles, it was the heel that tripped up Donald Tiripano. Shai Hope ran at a tossed-up offbreak from Sikanda Raza in the 32nd over of the chase and lofted the ball down the ground. Tiripano leapt at the edge of the long-on boundary and cupped his hands around the ball, but the momentum caused his back heel to touch the rope when he landed. Hope was awarded a six, but Tiripano more than made up for the miss by earning Zimbabwe a tie with a three-run last over.