Jacques Kallis admitted he was taken a bit of a punt when he advised his batting partner to ask for a review.
And Jacques Rudolph?
Well, he started walking off when it was obvious Bracewell had not bowled a no ball.
The pitch map had other ideas, though. It showed the ball had pitched outside leg stump and Dar's decision to give the batsman out lbw had to be reversed.
It was a hot topic after the match, with both Bracewell and Kallis expressing concerns about the Umpire Decision Review System. Kallis even suggested, in a lighthearted yet still serious way, the UDRS might need a review itself.
"I'm waiting for someone to sort of give it the ..." he said, making the umpire's signal for it.
Asked if the South African camp had any concerns about the UDRS, Kallis responded: "Plenty. Sometimes when it hits the batter and you think 'gee that is close' and it ends up being a long way away or vice versa. I can't think of any guys who are 100% sure that that thing is as accurate as they want to make it out to be.
"Ninety-nine percent of cricketers will say that, I think."
Surprisingly, though, Kallis admitted he had never seen the system being operated. He also acknowledged it was an improvement on the old days when if a player got given a bad decision there was no recourse.
"I understand that there is a place for it. But how accurate it is ... I don't know. Have decisions improved? They probably have but I think we have to accept that there is going to be one or two that, as cricketers, you are not sure about."
Bracewell's gut feeling when he appealed was that Rudolph was out.
"I thought it was pretty dead straight away," he said.
"I think everyone thought it was out. I think they made a mistake. I don't see how the ball swinging back in [to the left-hander] could pitch outside leg and hit middle stump."
