Two of the most bizarre and rare types of dismissals seen were the biggest talking points of the match.

Both dismissals involved Steve Skinner and Jordan Moran and left all in attendance, and some of those on the field, stunned.

The first came on day one when in the 15th over of the day and with Newtown 0-64 Dan Holland was bowled by Tyler Woodrow.

First drop Steve Skinner had returned to the changing room and it took time for him to even reach the field of play.

Skinner, thinking he only had to be on the field of play to rule out the timed out decision, was putting his thigh pads on just inside the boundary. As he made his way to the pitch Rugby appealed and umpire John DeLyall raised his finger.

Skinner met with the two umpires and Rugby captain Jordan Moran to argue his point but the decision was made and he returned to the sheds without facing a ball.

If that was not enough drama, on Sunday with Rugby 2-48 and Moran and Mitch Bower starting to look comfortable Moran was given out run out in contentious circumstances.

Moran was walking down the pitch to talk to talk to Bower after the pair had just run two.

The ball had been thrown back to bowler Steve Skinner from the fielder and when he took the bails off and asked the question, the finger was raised.

Moran, who believed the ball was dead when Skinner caught it, questioned the decision and was visibly frustrated but after being given out he had to depart.

"The rules are the rules," Newtown captain Mat Skinner said after the match, before speaking about both decisions.

"He (Steve Skinner) had three minutes and he should have got there. There's no excuses, it's on him and hopefully he learns from that.

"The same thing (with the runout), the umpire warned us not to leave our crease too early and it turned out that Jordan did exactly that. He sticks to the rules so it just sort of backfired for him."

Moran and Rugby were left shattered after the match after they had earlier got themselves right back in it at 3-168 in chase of Newtown's 248. "Disappointing, it was ours to win but things didn't go our way," was all Moran could manage.