Lucknow needed five off the last six balls after Ayush Badoni was out hit-wicket for 30 in the penultimate over, hitting his stumps while hammering what would have been a six.
Mark Wood and Jaydev Unadkat were dismissed in the final over and Ravi Bishnoi was nearly ‘mankaded’ from the last ball.
Harsha Patel attempted to remove the bails but somehow missed the stumps, only to turn around and throw down the stumps as Bishnoi dived back. However, the umpires bizarrely opted not to review the run-out, and instead called it a dead ball.
A recent clarification of the rules surrounding Mankads says that any attempt to run out the nonstriker must come before “the moment the bowler’s arm reaches the highest point of his/her normal bowling action in the delivery swing”.
But Patel did not enter any delivery swing, meaning a dead ball should not have called. And it is explicitly stated in the laws that the ball remains live if the bowler attempts a run-out.
