<i>'Next time, I'll keep it down'</i>

In a day where the Tigers' bowlers hogged the headline, it was still South African batsman AB de Villiers who captured the imagination.
However, it was not due to his eye-catching batting performance but the manner of his dismissal which will endure in the memory of all those lucky enough to have witnessed it.
With his team struggling at 77-5, de Villiers and partner Johan Botha had put up a solid partnership which the Tigers seemed unable to unlock.
Up stepped captain Mohammad Ashraful for a turn of the arm and hoping for better results than the established spinners - - and struck gold with his first delivery.
His leg-spinner was bowled well short and predictably de Villiers rocked back to try and negotiate it.
What he did not contend for was the 'multi-faced' Mirpur track where the ball kept shockingly low.
So a rank half-tracker turned into a delivery that shot through the floor, bouncing twice before reaching the batsman.
Not one to let such an opportunity pass, de Villiers launched himself into the delivery and miscued it high.
But height was all he got as it dropped like a fly into the arms of the gleeful Ashraful.
A shocked de Villiers stood his ground hoping for, as he later put it, “someone to call it a no-ball or something".
But the South African batsman obviously was not aware of Law 24, section 6 of cricket's law book which states that: the umpire shall call a no-ball only if a delivery bounces more than twice before reaching the popping crease.
Ashraful for his part was in no doubt, his euphoric ear-to-ear grin all the answer necessary.
But he later admitted that the two-bounce trick was not intentional.
“I have bounced the ball twice before in domestic cricket but I never got a wicket for it. The ball actually slipped from my fingers and I was surprised to benefit from it.”
de Villiers confessed himself unaware of the rule and admitted he had never been dismissed in such a fashion before.
“I went back in my crease when I saw it pitched short and when it bounced twice I knew I could not be given out so I hit it up in the air.
Unfortunately for me it ended up as a catch and I was given out.
“I queried the umpire later but he mentioned that it needed to bounce three times for it to be a no-ball.
“So next time, I will just keep it on the ground,” joked the 24-year old.
Steve Waugh, Michael Vaughan, Andrew Symonds, Salman Butt and Inzamamul Haq are the ones in recent memory to fall victims to bizarre dismissals.
While Waugh and Vaughan were slightly the culprits in Chennai and Bangalore against India in 1998 and 2001 when they handled the ball, Inzamam was just terribly unlucky to jump at the wrong time to Steve Harmison's throw at Faisalabad in 2006.
Salman Butt handed Shaun Udal his first Test wicket in 2006 courtesy of a deflection of Marcus Trescothick's forehead and Andrew Symonds had non-striker Michael Clarke to blame for taking the sting out of his shot at Melbourne in their VB Series game against Sri Lanka in 2006.
But in a weird turn of events, Ashraful himself once survived a stunning dismissal. At Sophia Gardens in Trent Bridge in 2005, he prodded forward to a Chris Tremlett delivery which was played on, smack on to the top of his middle-stump. By some divine blessing neither bail were disturbed.
Smiling the same sheepish grin as he sported today, Ashraful proceeded to smash a remarkable 92 off 54 balls.
One will hope for a similar outcome this time.