Machan's jig, Watt's airplane

Ian Gould, the TV umpire in the first match of the day, had been put in the hot seat, when Samiullah Shenwari slogged Sikandar Raza to deep midwicket. Malcolm Waller seemed to have got his fingers underneath the ball, but Gould ruled it in favour of Afghanistan. Gould was left in the hot seat in the second match of the day as well, this time on the field, when Babar Hayat chased a rising ball outside off, before it reached the wicketkeeper. Replays and Snicko picked up a tiny nick, but Gould shot it down, despite the wicketkeeper Matthew Cross and Gavin Main imploring in unison. Hayat, perhaps, dropped a hint, glancing behind and flipping his gloves off, but got away.

Just as Mark Chapman and Anshuman Rath threatened to crank up the tempo, Matt Machan dragged his length back and sent down a skiddy ball to dupe the charging Rath. Cross whipped the bails off quickly as Machan broke into a jig, swivelling his hands sideways. Three overs later, left-arm spinner Mark Watt had Mark Chapman top-edging to short fine leg. He unfurled the airplane celebration, though it was not as catchy as Shoaib Akhtar's.

Seamer Josh Davey could have had Jamie Atkinson on his fourth ball had Kyle Coetzer timed his jump to perfection at short cover. Coetzer flew to his left, lost his balance, and stuck his right hand out, only to finger-tip the sliced hit to the boundary. As if to take advantage of the reprieve, Atkinson crunched the next ball over mid-off for another four. Davey, however, polished off Atkinson in his next over with a cross-seamer that was tamely popped back to the bowler. Davey dove forward from his follow through and hung on to a low catch.

New Zealand had unveiled their snazzy retro kit during their home season. Sri Lanka have a yellow "away outfit" for the World Twenty20, and Bangladesh brought out their bright red strip in their rain-ruined clash against Ireland on Friday. Scotland, on Saturday, ditched their blue for bright pink, almost matching the umpires' shirts. Midway through Hong Kong's stuttering innings, Craig Cumming, on TV commentary, asked if that would lead to a confusion. Pretty or not, confusing or not, Scotland looked a lot sharper with the ball and in the field, despite a couple of fumbled chances.

Three balls into the final over of Hong Kong's innings, unexpected rain came down and forced the covers on. Soon after the rain relented, the players were back on the field for the restart, but there was another bizarre delay: one of the super soppers got stuck by the edge of the boundary. Reserve umpire Aleem Dar then entered the fray before the super sopper was steered off the field. There have been delays through weather interruptions, sightscreen issues, floodlight problems, streakers, flame-throwers, but who would have thought of a super sopper breaking down to delay play?