WATCH | Sheldon Jackson suffers humiliating dismissal against Pune

05/03/2017

A hit wicket has to be one of the most unfortunate ways to be dismissed for any batsman. Kolkata’s Sheldon Jackson was on the receiving end of a similar dismissal against RPS when he was sent packing as he took an extra step back onto his stumps off the bowling of Washington Sundar.

Having lost Sunil Narine for a duck, and Robin Uthappa missing out due to a hamstring injury, Jackson was promoted up the order and appeared to be in decent touch after hitting Sundar for a boundary straight down the ground on the fifth ball of the fourth over.

On the very next ball, however, he made an amateurish mistake as he tried to play a fast skidding ball off the backfoot. Jackson went back to try and use the depth of his crease, but unfortunately for him, his feet hit the base of leg stump and the bails were dislodged. Even MS Dhoni, who never misses a trick didn't notice the hit wicket as he pointed to the ball for the fileders to track it. Jackson, however, didn't even wait for a decision as he started walking off, knowing fully that he had made a terrible mistake.

KKR found themselves in even more trouble as could only muster a score of 59/4 at the midway point of their innings.