VIDEO | Umpire gives Steve O’ Keefe run-out despite both “runners” being well inside crease

However, whether it was his age or just a brainfade moment, the 34-year-old committed a terrible blunder. He had completely forgotten that he had asked Nick Larkin to be his runner in the last moments of the innings. He dealt his first ball really well to push Scott Boland’s delivery towards mid-on and made an immediate call for Peter Nevill for a single.

While that call was an instinct, so was O’Keefe’s action of leaving his crease and making a quick run for it. Jon Holland did well to dive and stop the ball, by which time Nevill had covered the ground easily and so had Larkin. To further complicate things, even O’Keefe had covered the 22 yards in this time and was standing at the bowler’s end.

It did raise a few questions about the rules of cricket as to how could O’Keefe be given out despite both him and his runner making to the other end safely. However, according to the MCC rule 30.2.5, "When a batsman who has a runner is striker, his/her ground is always at the wicket-keeper’s end.  However, 30.2.1, 30.2.2, 30.2.3 and 30.2.4 will still apply, but only to the runner and the non-striker, so that that ground will also belong to either the non-striker or the runner, as the case may be.”