A classic case of ball watching from keeper Jos Butler landed him in a vulnerable state after electing not to appeal in an obvious out call to the naked eye, luckily for the short format captain it didn't come back to bite him.
With Aussie Matthew Wade seemingly losing his bearings after a false shot off the bowling of Mark Wood, he felt for the English quick in an attempt to steady himself upon stretching to gain his ground back in his crease.
A steady arm preventing and impeding the run of Wood to reach the drop meant there was reason to argue on the front of obstruction, but for Butler his eyes remained firmly focused on the skyward white kookaburra.
“I would love to have seen what would have happened if that was a final – I think Jos might have appealed," England great Steve Harmison told The Daily Telegraph.
“If I was Buttler I would have gone up to Wade and leant on his shoulder, watched the big screen and said to Wade 'what would you do in this situation because you have been here before?'"
The comments from Harmison speak to the incident involving Ben Stokes and Mitchell Starc in 2015 where roles were reversed between the Aussies and the English, with Wade positioned behind the stumps being one of the first to ask the question.
Fortunately, from an England perspective, Butler and his troops snuck home in a thrilling finish under lights at the Perth Stadium in Sunday night's T20, the first of three warmup fixtures as a pre-cursor for the World Cup.
The two countries meet again on October 28, a date sure to be pencilled in as a high-stakes encounter where Butler admittedly suggested Wade's fortune may change under the different circumstances of a bigger stage.
