Bare-knuckle DK, and the no-ball that wasn't

It was the third ball of the match, and Mitchell Starc delivered it on a driving length. Robin Uthappa drilled it back, hard and straight. Too straight. Starc stuck his left boot out to slow it down and stop it from going to the boundary, nearly doing the splits as he did so. It was an excellent display of reflexes and agility, and Gautam Gambhir was mindful of this when he came on strike to face him. Starc's first ball to Gambhir was a wide, but his next one was in the slot to drive, and Gambhir drilled it back, but away from the bowler and towards the non-striker, who skipped away smartly to let it race through for four.

Harshal Patel was bowling a lot of slower balls in the penultimate over of Kolkata Knight Riders' innings, and Dinesh Karthik knew, behind the stumps, that if the batsmen played and missed the ball would roll gently to him. Given the likelihood of an attempted bye, Karthik took his right glove off and stuck it in his pocket. Just as expected, Ryan ten Doeschate swung and missed at one of Harshal's slower offcutters and set off for a bye. Karthik swooped on the ball, wasting no time to pull his glove off, and fired in a flat throw that caught Andre Russell inches short of the crease.

Starc came back to bowl the final over, and his fourth ball was a full-toss that Yusuf Pathan scooped straight into Virat Kohli's hands at long-on. Kohli had seen even before he settled under the ball that the umpire had signaled no-ball, and his face was a mask of rage as he caught it and threw it back towards the bowler. Kohli didn't think it was a no-ball, and replays proved him right. The ball was just below waist-height, and that with Yusuf on the front foot and in a low-ish position.

Kohli was on strike to face the first ball of the third over of Royal Challengers Bangalore's innings, and Pat Cummins sent down a leg-stump full-toss. Kohli whipped it away to the fine leg boundary, and immediately turned to the square-leg umpire, shrugging his shoulders questioningly. This was a fairly high full-toss too, and he seemed to be asking why this wasn't a no-ball. Replays showed it was just below waist-height.