Your favourite catches

[James]

Reading the BBC website today, I came across this page - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/5181666.stm and thought it would make a good thread.

What stands out for you as the best catches you've seen?

For me, I would say Matthew Sinclair's catch in Melbourne against Australia where he dived one-handed to his left on the boundary. And Nathan Astle's catch at Christchurch on the boundary in the most recent Chappel-Hadlee series.

 

[Burpey]

One of my favourites would be Adam Dale diving at long-on in a Mercantile Mutual Cup match to take a catch one-handed. We were imitating it in the playground and at cricket training for weeks.

And amazingly I found footage of it

 

[AussieDominance]

Burkey i totally agree with you that was the most amazing catch i have ever seen

 

[Clarence]

Dale, easily.

 

[benchmark00]

One of my favourites would be Adam Dale diving at long-on in a Mercantile Mutual Cup match to take a catch one-handed. We were imitating it in the playground and at cricket training for weeks.

And amazingly I found footage of it

Beat me to it, chump.

 

[AussieDominance]

and me damn

 

[andyc]

There's a whole bunch on youtube:

Fatty's catch
Boon at short leg
Mark Waugh, WC 1999
Collingwood, off Hayden
Collingwood, off Iqbal
John Embury
John Dyson
Allan Border
Yuvraj Singh
Steve Waugh
Matthew Sinclair
Nathan Astle
Roger Harper
A whole collection

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Here's a good 'un

Afridi/Malik special

John Dyson - Major League?

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

The Dale one is quite phenomenal. There's been lots of great catches in test cricket, but that might be better than any of them.

 

[Smudge]

Martin Snedden's great catch to dismiss Greg Chappell in THAT one-dayer in 1981.

Oh, hang on - Chappell wouldn't leave...

 

[chooka_nick]

That is bloody fantastic. YouTube rocks

 

[andyc]

There's a few in this one
'Plays of the year'

And, on a slightly related topic, I knew he was bad, but this is awful
Phil Tufnell

 

[Cloete]

Beat me to it, chump.

FFS me too

Instantly thoguht of it after reading the first post. I remember watching that match clearly

 

[archie mac]

The John Dyson one. Although my father took one look at it and said 'out of position'

 

[deeps]

Brad Hogg in 97 in india

 

[deeps]

Here's a good 'un

Afridi/Malik special

John Dyson - Major League?

That isnt the afridi malik one it seems.

 

[steds]

Afridi/Malik special

WhosYourDaddy***** (2 weeks ago)
a hindu would have dropped it for sure...
(reply to this)

 

[BoyBrumby]

My favourite catch is definitely the

Jones....Bowden....Kasprowicz the man to go

one from the nail-biting, sphincter-loosening denouement of the 2nd Ashes test in 2005. Not for any particular merit of the catch, just that I've never celebrated one more.