Brevis and his lack of game sense cost him his wicket as his dismissal turned out to be the point of difference.
Brevis and his ‘lack of awareness’ cost him his wicket.
The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are chasing 214 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) on the third ball of the 17th over. On the middle and leg stumps, Lungi Ngidi delivered a full delivery that was knee-high. Dewald Brevis was struck on the pad after missing. The umpire quickly raised his finger. The 15-second timer started when the ball turned dead, in accordance with the rules.
But apparently unaware of what was going on, Brevis and his partner Ravindra Jadeja kept running the single, and the fielder hit the non-striker’s end directly from the point region. After a while, Brevis messaged Jadeja to request a review, but was informed that the allotted 15 seconds had passed.
It resulted in a dispute between the on-field umpires Nitin Menon and Mohit Krishnadas on one side and Jadeja and Brevis on the other. Brevis eventually had to walk back for a first-ball duck after becoming irate. Replays showed that Ngidi’s delivery was smoothly going down leg, which only made CSK’s suffering worse. Brevis would have been spared if he had taken the review in time.
“Yeah, it was a big moment,” Stephen Fleming, the CSK coach said after the game. “In talking to Jaddu [Jadeja] and Brevis, there was a lot going on with running straight away. I think they saw the ball ricochet and actually went to the boundary for four. And lost in that was whether Brevis took the review in time. I don’t know the answer to that. He wasn’t sure, given that they were running at the time.
“As soon as you’re given out, I understand the timer starts. There was a fair bit eaten up with the play still being completed, and whether they just ran out of time… in the umpire’s view, it did. The other part about it, because he was given out, we wouldn’t have got the runs. While we would have maintained the wicket, it certainly wouldn’t have given us the five runs, which would have been nice.
“But it’s a big moment in a big game. There was twists and turns all the way through.”