A potential controversy was avoided at IPL 2020 when Delhi Capitals spinner R Ashwin warned Royal Challengers Bangalore opener Aaron Finch for straying out of the crease at the non-striker's end but didn't take the chance to run him out for the same. While bowling the third over of the Royal Challengers chase in Dubai, the bowler stopped short of delivering what would have been the fourth delivery and went through his action without letting go off the ball.

Finch, on 12 then, ventured well out of the crease with his eyes on his partner Devdutt Padikkal, even as Ashwin reacted with a wry smile with Finch a few steps down the pitch. Umpire Nitin Menon alerted Finch about it and the cameras immediately panned to the Capitals dugout to show head coach Ricky Ponting, who had disagreed with Ashwin on running out batsmen at the non-striker's end even before this IPL had started.

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