Chand's duck, and Pollard's inability to duck

Unmukt Chand was making his first appearance of the 2016 IPL season, having come into Mumbai Indians' side in place of Parthiv Patel. He played out three dot balls before looking to drag Sandeep Sharma from wide outside off stump and whip him through the leg side. It wasn't the smartest shot to play on a slow pitch, and Unmukt closed his bat face a touch too early, popping a simple catch to mid-on.

Chand had begun the season with a duck. Walking back, he might have harked back to his first match of the 2011 season - which was also his IPL debut - and his first match in 2013. His scores in those two games - 0 (2 balls) and 0 (1).

Mumbai's batsmen had struggled for timing on this Visakhapatnam pitch, and when Kieron Pollard walked in, he wanted to try something different. He took a big step down the pitch to the first ball he faced, and Marcus Stoinis saw him coming and shortened his length considerably, banging the ball into the pitch. Pollard was caught in an awkward position, a big man in the path of an awkwardly rising ball, with little time available to play a shot or weave out of the way. In the end, he was caught between the two options, and could only flinch as the ball smacked him high on his chest, not far from his throat. The speedgun reading said 105kph, but that probably didn't ease Pollard's pain all that much.

Fielding in the IPL is a curious mix of the sublime and the ridiculous, and in the 14th over of Mumbai's innings, Gurkeerat Singh combined both in the same ball. Jos Buttler miscued Stoinis off the high part of his bat, and the ball hung high over long-off. It was a straightforward catch, and Gurkeerat let it bobble out of his hands. He had to take a step backward to catch the rebound, and the momentum took him to the edge of the boundary. Turning around to see the boundary cushions next to his feet, he flicked the ball in the air, stepped over the line, and then back into the field of play to complete the catch.

Kings XI were cruising home, needing only 15 off the last 30 balls, when Mitchell McClenaghan began his third over. M Vijay pushed his first ball towards point and set off for a quick single. He had made it home when the throw hit direct at the non-striker's end, and with McClenaghan still not back by his stumps after completing his follow-through, the batsmen chanced an overthrow. McClenaghan hared towards the ball, which was close to the stumps, and with the bails off their grooves, uprooted a stump while also grabbing at the ball. Saha was still out of his crease, and would have been out had the bowler brought ball and stump together, but McClenaghan had let the ball slip from his grasp.