Sreenath Aravind, the latest pace-bowling call-up to the Indian team, had bowled a nightmarish spell, conceding 69 in his four overs. But in the dying moments of his team’s chase of a steep 215, he had walked across the stumps and scooped Daniel Christian for a boundary over short fine leg’s head. There were three balls left in the innings now. A short while later the equation read: seven from two balls.
Aravind swung, and missed. KB Arun Karthik, the non-striker, was already halfway down the pitch. As the two batsmen scampered the bye, keeper Tim Ludeman collected the ball and kept it firm in his gloves, not throwing for fear of conceding overthrows.
Maybe he should have had a shy. Arun Karthik, who bats at number three for Tamil Nadu, had never really had a significant opportunity to display his wares in the IPL. Even here, he had worn an unfamiliar pair of keeping gloves and walked in at the fall of the seventh wicket. Now, he was batting with six needed from one ball
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