The cricket fans might be aware of the phenomenon of running out a batsman from the deep but it is very rare to see a fielder runs a batsman out while trying to save a boundary. It happened on Saturday, during an IPL game between Delhi Capitals (DC) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) when Kagiso Rabada’s balancing act to save the boundary slowed Shubman Gill down and eventually resulted in a run-out.

After KKR suffered an early collapse, the onus was on Dinesh Karthik and Gill to bring the team o a safe position, but destiny had some other plans in mind for the youngster. On the first ball of the 10th over, Shubman found a Sandeep Lamichhane ball on his zone and had driven it square through point. 

It was going for the boundary, Rabada ran across to the point boundary before making a full-body dive to his left. Gill and Karthik were thinking that the ball went for a boundary, but they quickly ran a two, probably by seeing Rabada in full charge. Gill, however, made a mistake of slowing down a bit and during that time, Rabada parried the ball to Harshal Patel, who made a throw to Lamichhane. 

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Shubman had to try and regain the momentum, but Patel was quick in his throw to Sandeep for a run-out attempt, making things difficult to cross the distance. The third umpire first checked Rabada’s attempt and after he deemed that the ball hadn’t crossed the line and the South African pacer was well in control of the things at deep point, he checked the replay for the run-out appeal. Then it was clear that Gill hadn’t grounded his bat when Lamichhane dislodged the bails at the non-striker’s end.

Here is the video of the dismissal:

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