During the third T20 match between India and West Indies, held at the Holkar Stadium in Indore, a very surprising event occurred during the Indian innings. Tilak Verma, who was demonstrating excellent batting form, was dismissed under very unusual circumstances due to a minor error.
This incident happened in the 17th over of the Indian innings. Akshar Patel hit a ball bowled by Gudakesh Motie towards deep backward square leg. West Indies player Kamil Purran made an exceptional reaction, diving to prevent the ball from going out of bounds and returning it onto the field.
Akshar and Tilak assumed the ball had gone to the fourth base, after which both batsmen began celebrating, exchanging gloves in the middle of the field. However, the ball was inside the field boundaries. The West Indies players reacted immediately. Akshar Patel managed to reach his crease, but Tilak Verma remained outside of it, unaware of what was happening. The ball was immediately thrown to Motie, and he knocked down the stumps. The third umpire, reviewing the replay, confirmed that the ball did not stop, and Tilak was declared out.
Before his dismissal, Tilak Verma scored 28 runs, making 4 fours off 16 balls. At the start of this match, the Indian team showed a strong start, scoring 87 runs while losing only one wicket in the powerplay. Abhishek Sharma played an impressive innings, scoring 69 runs off 30 balls, and Ishan Kishan added 37 runs off 18 balls.
However, the West Indies bowlers were able to brilliantly recover afterward, and India lost three crucial wickets in just 10 balls, for only 9 runs. Due to instability in the middle order and this peculiar out, the expected score of over 250 was ultimately reduced to 223 runs.