Watch: Lucknow Super Giants’ Ayush Badoni was run out in strange circumstances towards the end of the LSG vs MI game in Lucknow today (April 30).

Chasing 145 for victory, LSG found themselves in a spot of bother when they could manage only one run off Jasprit Bumrah’s last over. It left them needing 22 off the last three with six wickets in hand.

Gerald Coetzee got Ashton Turner off the first ball of the 18th, bringing Ayush Badoni to the crease. Two boundaries in the next five balls meant the equation was back down to a safer looking 13 off 12 balls, before Badoni was run out in bizarre fashion on the first ball of the penultimate over.

He cut a Hardik Pandya ball towards the point boundary and rushed back for a double. On realising that he would fall well short, Badoni put in a big dive. Substitute fielder Naman Dhir’s throw was on target, but Ishan Kishan failed to whip off the bails on the first attempt and was only able to do so in the second. By that time, Badoni looked like he had crossed the crease. Yet, the decision was referred to the TV umpire.

Replays showed that while the entire blade of Badoni’s bat was over the line, and even a part of the handle, no portion of his bat or body was grounded beyond the crease when Kishan eventually took off the bails on second try.

According to the laws of the game, if no part of the batter’s bat or body is grounded beyond the crease when the bails are taken off, they would be considered out, as was Badoni.

Luckily for LSG, it didn’t cost them much as they won the game with four balls left.

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