Watch | Sai Sudharsan’s Playoff Nightmare: Bat Flies to Stumps, Ball Rolls Down to the Boundary

The Titans were 51 for 4 in 5.1 overs, and the game, for all practical purposes, was slipping away.

Sai Sudharsan, the current Orange Cap holder and Gujarat’s most reliable run-scorer this season, had just cracked Jacob Duffy through the covers for a lovely square cut to the boundary in the third over.

The shot was timed sweetly off the back foot, and a back-to-back four looked a certainty. Instead, in the follow-through, Sudharsan’s bat slipped clean out of his hands, bounced in the crease, top-spun onto the leg stump, and dislodged the bails.