VIDEO | Sarfraz Ahmed pulls off an anti-Dhoni tactic to frustrate Hasan Ali

While he will be the best person to explain the logic behind the bowling change, he can never give any logic whatsoever for removing the slip fielder when all Hasan Ali was doing was keeping the ball in the channel outside the off-stump. He had the fielder stationed at the slip when Mithun hit the pacer for a cover drive, and despite knowing that the ball might flow to the slip cordon, he removed it instantly. However, lady luck had the last laugh. The first ball of Hasan Ali’s next over, which was faced by Rahim, was another one on the outside off-stump and the lack of slip fielder meant Pakistan couldn’t do much about it. The edge flew over the slip region and crossed the fence for a boundary.

It was exactly the opposite of MS Dhoni style of captaincy, who would have immediately guessed batsman's move and stationed the fielder at those exact positions where he thought the batsman might try. This intuition has also helped him hand-hold Indian spinners in the limited-overs format of the game. How Sarfraz missed a lesson though!