Ben Sears to Gus Atkinson, IN THE AIR… SAFE! Don’t doze off, guys, that’s what the pitch is telling us. On a length, outside off, Gus Atkinson looks to defend but the ball lands and then suddenly shoots up. Atkinson is caught in no man’s land, simply hanging his bat in the air. The ball flies off the outside edge, but does not carry to backward point. It lands short and wide of the fielder, to his right. Meanwhile, Atkinson is busy searching for the ball until he realizes that the limited-overs skipper is haring down the pitch for the single. Atkinson sets off late and the fielder has a shy at the bowler’s end, but misses. The replay shows that even if the throw had hit, Atkinson would have been in.
