VIDEO | Brendon McCullum bends his body at impossible angle to prevent ball from crossing rope

In the Sunday Big Bash clash between Brisbane Heat and Sydney Sixers, it was the Sydney team that was invited to bat first. A good partnership between James Vince and Jordan Silk for the fourth wicket had taken them to a very comfortable position in the first half of the game played at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

The home team had put up 146 runs in 16 overs with only three wickets down and both the batsmen were starting to accelerate during that period. After Ben Cutting went for as many as 17 runs in the previous over, the Afghan spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman came into bowl in the 17th one. It was the fifth ball of that over when set batsman Vince was on strike when the incident happened.

A tossed up delivery from Mujeeb was muscled away down the ground by the right-hander and it was almost a maximum before McCullum decided to turn things around. He came from the long on and leapt right in front of the ropes to palm the ball up again. He had fallen on the wrong side of the boundary but realising the ball coming down quickly, decided to put in another jump and clear it away. The replays showed that he was in the air at the point of contact with the ball and the batsmen could get only a couple of runs.