New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- The battle between the bench and the bar took an unexpected turn on Sunday -- not in the courtroom, but on the cricket field. In a thrilling T20 match at the Capital's Arun Jaitley stadium, judges from the Supreme Court and Delhi high court took on a team of lawyers, with both sides finishing at 126 runs, resulting in a rare tie -- something almost unheard of in their usual legal contests where one side must inevitably prevail.

Organised by the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAoRA), the match pitted the Chief Justice of India (CJI) XI against SCAoRA XI under floodlights. The judges, many of them well past their prime sporting years, proved that legal acumen is not their only forte as they put up a c...