Bowling from over the wicket, Riaz was smashed for a boundary to the cover fence on the first ball of the over. After bowling three dot balls, Riaz produced an incredible passage of play that left the everyone from his teammates, to his opponents, to the fans frustrated. Riaz ran up to bowl the fifth delivery but missed his run-up and took the long walk back. He ran in again and the same thing happened again. He walked back to his spot, came in running for a third time but failed to find the crease and pulled out at the last moment. As the camera panned to skipper Sarfraz Khan and coach Arthur, both looked visibly disgruntled.

But Riaz wasn't done yet and went on to miss the run-up two more times. The fourth one, however, was the charm as it forced Arther to get off his chair and get out of the vision of a camera. In his sixth attempt, he was able to release the ball perfectly and landed in the short of length area which Dimuth Karunaratne left for the wicket-keeper. He went on to complete his over and, surprisingly, was given another couple in the same spell before the teams decided to break for tea.