Kohli's déjà vu

The free miss
Mitchell Starc's previous delivery, in the third over of the Kings XI innings, had been a no-ball off which Mandeep Singh had taken a single. Virender Sehwag came on strike, as the umpire signaled for a free hit. Starc bowled a slower ball, starting outside off and going away with the left-arm-over angle. Sehwag swung and missed.

It wasn't that far away from the batsman, but the umpire, much to the bemusement of the Royal Challengers players, signaled wide, before signaling for free hit again. Starc went over the wicket, and angled it into Sehwag this time. Sehwag swung again and missed again.

The dead ball
Having just dismissed George Bailey with an away-seamer, Albie Morkel ran in to bowl to Wriddhiman Saha, facing his first ball. Morkel got through his delivery stride and swung his arm over. For a moment, no one could tell where the ball had gone. Saha ducked, before nervously looking down the pitch from his crouched position. The ball was lying behind the bowler, and behind the umpire. Just as he was loading up to bowl, Morkel's hand had brushed against the side of his trousers, and the ball had popped out of his grasp.

The effort
Akshar Patel slashed hard outside off stump at Varun Aaron and connected well. The ball flew towards third man, where Harshal Patel was running hard to his right. He caught it just in front of the rope, but realised the momentum would carry him over. He released the ball right on the edge, went over the rope, and ran around to get back into the field, but he was too far from the ball to complete the catch. Still, Harshal had saved five runs, and it must have soothed him somewhat, having given away 56 in his three overs of bowling.

Déjà vu for Kohli
Roughly two weeks ago, Virat Kohli had walked in to bat at the Dubai International Stadium at the fall of Chris Gayle's wicket to a ball from Sandeep Sharma that had swung away from the left-handed batsman. Now, he walked in to bat at the Chinnaswamy Stadium under the same circumstances.

Two weeks ago, Kohli had been out for 4 in the same over, to a ball that swung sharply into him. The umpire had given him lbw even though the ball looked certain to miss leg stump. Now, the first ball Kohli faced was another inswinger. This one was definitely missing leg. It was far enough outside leg for the Kings XI players' caught-behind appeals to seem like an effort to put the umpire off from calling wide.

After a long pause, the umpire raised his finger, before asking a devastated Kohli to wait. Replays showed he probably did get a tickle, since there was a sound as the ball passed his bat; replays showed the bowler definitely hadn't overstepped and also suggested that the ball might have brushed the ground as it snuck into the webbing of Wriddhiman Saha's right glove. The umpire raised his finger again. Kohli trudged slowly off, before kicking out angrily in the Royal Challengers dugout.