Saracens continued to carve out chances and lock Hugh Vyvyan was bundled over the line only for the television match official to rule that he had been held up.
That had the match officials scanning the rule books but after a lengthy delay a boundary was not given and the batsmen picked up for the three they had run.
American Express is throwing a pair of Manhattan bashes, one in Rockefeller Center and one in Madison Square Park, where match viewing and clever games rule the day.
It was later confirmed Pietersen would not face censure for the hesitation, but match referee Jeff Crowe did admit the referral rule may have to be changed.
The samples turned out to be a match, though researchers pointed out that this strong evidence does not completely rule out the possibility of the bones in Santo Domingo also belonging to the explorer.
League rules state teams can only sign eight loan player and field five in any one match and although Yates already has five loanees in the squad, he refused to rule out more signings in an attempt to improve results.
There is little doubt that the match fixers' sophisticated inter-continental operations have put them a long way ahead of the rigid rule-bound tactics of those trying to stop them.