A funny incident took place involving the on-field umpire Chris Gaffaney and West Indies all-rounder, Kieron Pollard, during the 56th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 between Mumbai Indians (MI) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Mumbai.

After the strategic timeout, the right-arm medium pacer Kieron Pollard was brought to the attack by the MI skipper, Rohit Sharma in the 10th over of the match. Kieron Pollard conceded a boundary on the first ball of the over and gave away three singles on the next three deliveries.

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Meanwhile, when he was going to bowl the 5th delivery of the over to the southpaw batter, Nitish Rana the ball slipped out of his hand in the bowling stride and it hit the umpire, Chris Gaffaney, as MI all-rounder Kieron Pollard reached the bowling crease. On the next couple of deliveries, Pollard gave away two more runs and ended up conceding 9 runs in the over.

Here is the video of the incident:

https://twitter.com/addicric/status/1523681093127352320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Earlier, Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to field first and they had a make one forced change to the playing XI as Ramandeep Singh replaced Suryakumar Yadav, who has been injured and ruled out of the entire season of IPL 2022.

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On the other hand, Kolkata Knight Riders once again made plenty of changes to the playing XI as Varun Chakravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Pat Cummins, Sheldon Jackson and Ajinkya Rahane came in for Shivam Mavi, Anukul Roy, Aaron Finch, Baba Indrajith and Harshit Rana in the playing XI.

Venkatesh Iyer and Ajinkya Rahane opened the innings for the Knight Riders and all-rounder Daniel Sams opened the attack for Mumbai Indians and he gave away just 4 runs in the first over.