Having missed the first three overs of the Netherlands’s chase on Wednesday night, Abhishek Sharma was stationed at a wide slip when Jasprit Bumrah walk-ran in to kick off the fourth over here. Max O’Dowd, the tall opener who had no clue what was flying out of Bumrah’s right hand, essayed an optimistic drive to a length ball that snaked away and caught his outside edge. Abhishek went flying to his left, two-handed, and got a nice piece of the ball in his palms, but the white orb somehow slipped out of his grasp and clanged onto the turf.

As the camera unforgivingly focussed on him, Abhishek buried his face in the same palms that had just let him down. A melange of emotions must have been flooding through his troubled mind; after all, when it rains, it truly pours.