Warner's rare day of lapses

Carlos Brathwaite was in the thick of things immediately after being summoned in the sixth over. David Warner flat-batted a slap off a length ball to send umpire Bruce Oxenford, with a protective shield on his left arm, ducking for cover. Brathwaite instinctively stuck his hand out on his follow-through, but could only get his finger tips to the ball. Such was the brute strength of the stroke that the parry nearly lobbed to Amit Mishra at mid-off. Most bowlers may have let it go, not Brathwaite.

In the same over, Shikhar Dhawan squeezed a full Brathwaite delivery towards the on-side and was a couple of paces down the pitch in his quest for a single. But Brathwaite's towering reach meant he simply had to extend his left hand to stop the ball from rolling towards a straight mid-on. His athleticism then shone through as he quickly got up, transferred the ball from his left hand to the right hand before firing a throw at the striker's end to send back a shell-shocked Dhawan, who was well short of the crease.

At his best, Amit Mishra's googlies and flippers can be hard to pick. On Friday, he perhaps exceeded his own expectations with a brilliant effort to effect the night's second run-out immediately after Dhawan's dismissal. In the seventh over, Warner swatted a flat delivery back to Mishra, who half-stopped it with his right hand. The ball deflected to his right, and Mishra got to the ball in a jiffy, before turning around to fire a throw at the bowler's end. For a split second, Mishra contemplated running to the stumps. But his instincts eventually took over and, with just one stump to aim at, Mishra took the stumps down to send back a scampering Deepak Hooda.

Karun Nair's attempted glide off a length ball from Moises Henriques in the ninth over elicited plenty of excitement from behind the stumps. Nair, who was cramped for room, seemed to have the got the faintest of bottom edges as the ball went through to Naman Ojha. Umpire Nand Kishore was convinced there was no bat, and he may have been confused by the noise of the bat hitting the flap of the pad when the edge was taken. Nair was on 23 and went on to score 60 more. While it's hard to say what may have been had Nair been given out, the fact that it was a big moment in the game wasn't lost on anyone in retrospect.

David Warner is an outstanding fielder, but even the best have their off days, and the Sunrisers Hyderabad captain certainly had one on Friday. Nair attempted a pull in the 15th over off Barinder Sran, but was cramped for room and the ball lobbed towards long-on. Warner did well to run in at least 10 yards, but was on the move when the ball lodged in his hands. He dropped the catch as the momentum took him forward. Nair was on 51 at the time. The Sunrisers captain somewhat made up with a low catch at mid-on to dismiss JP Duminy with Daredevils needing 42 off 24.

The tension escalated further when Bhuvneshwar Kumar's near-perfect execution in the first four balls of the final over brought the equation down to six off two. Nair flat-batted a pull that flew over the infield and a desperate Warner, who nearly ran 30 yards to his left - from long on to long off - dished in a full-length dive only to see the ball elude him and run away for a boundary. Then, off the last ball, came Nair's short-arm jab towards Warner, who dived to his right at mid-on, only for the ball to race to the boundary. A furious Warner slapped the turf in disgust even as the Daredevils players ran on to the field to celebrate their last-ball heist.