At the height of the T&T eighth-wicket recovery, led by Babwah and Dillon, in bright sunshine, the bolt of lightning struck without warning. It was accompanied by explosive blasts of thunder. Dillon was struck hard on his left side, as he was about to face the first delivery of the 39th over from Thomas. Dillon slowly slumped to the ground complaining of severe earache and headache. Thomas was also hit hard on his upper back and ran wildly afterwards to the pavilion complaining of headache and a burning sensation across the back of his neck. Both players were taken for medical treatment at the nearby University Hospital, where they have been admitted for observation. Dillon, who retired hurt on 16, and Babwah shared 64 runs for the eighth wicket before the unfortunate incident to the West Indies fast bowler.

Then Dinanath Ramnarine entered to help Babwah carry their side the rest of the way. Sammy, bowling purposefully, got the big wicket of Lara when the world record holder sent a flick straight to Rommel Currency at square leg to leave T&T 35 for three. Earlier, Andy Jackson had top-edged a hook at Thomas to backward square leg in the fourth over and T&T captain Daren Ganga edged Cameron Cuffy to 'keeper Junior Murray in the fifth over. Following Lara's departure, Imran Jan was caught at square leg off Kenroy Peters for 12, to send T&T crashing to 43 for 4 before Sammy stepped into the picture to remove Dwayne Bravo, Aneil Kanhai and Dave Mohammed to put the twin-island republic in peril of falling for a ‘bingo number’.