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Worst dropped catch in the history of the game
- Thread starter Days of Grace
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James90
Cricketer Of The Year
Wade Seccombe dropping Stuart MacGill when NSW had one wicket remaining in the Pura Cup Final. It won't be the worst one ever but it's one of the more significant ones in my lifetime and one which certainly lost Queensland the game.
As far as sitters go, Langeveldt dropping Lee at Perth was just dire. And that one where the English player dropped the ball from a lob over the stumps for a run out. There's a classic video on Youtube.
As far as sitters go, Langeveldt dropping Lee at Perth was just dire. And that one where the English player dropped the ball from a lob over the stumps for a run out. There's a classic video on Youtube.
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
- Any of Dravid's drops as keeper can come, but in a Test match in Sharjah in 2002, there was one drop that takes the cake- mid-on, a Pakistani batsman offers a catch to Pedro Collins, who drops it. Can't get worse than that.
- Guyana, 2002. Hooper on zero. Srinath gets a good edge to Deep Dasgupta. Drop. Two hundred and thirty three. Not to mention, there are three hundred and nine reasons you don't even drop Sehwag once, let alone five times as the Pakistanis did in Multan in 2004.
neville cardus
International Debutant
On a totally extraneous note, is your nickname based on G. Derek West's celebrated tome?
neville cardus
International Debutant
Romantic though it may be to record that Fred thenceforth devoted every possible moment to nurturing his son into the cricketer who would one day amend the escutcheon, young Maurice was in fact allowed to grow up in perfect normality, without any of the coercive pressures that other, more preponderant fathers would've applied. Certainly, M.W. Tate didn't become great owing to any paternal teachings; it was, as we know, quite by accident.
neville cardus
International Debutant
Worry not, Richie, m'boy; I was just looking for an excuse to indulge myself.
neville cardus
International Debutant
Sorry. I didn't know that that one was supposed to denote sarcasm. (It looks perfectly friendly to me.Rolleyes?
) To make it up to you, though...
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
I do not know if this thread was inspired by this article. In any event here are
The Guardian's ten dropped catches
Some very good ones here.
The Guardian's ten dropped catches
Some very good ones here.
roseboy64
Cricket Web Content Updater
Collins is an atrocious fielder though so.......
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
"This could have been early jitters for the Indian opening pair. Luckily for them, Pedro doesn't catch much" - Christy Simson, ESPN/STAR
Sehwag scooped one over third-man and Collins was standing there, for the catch. He dropped it.
There was one embarassing drop later, in the infield, by Cuffy. "This is embarassing! You have 40,000 people watching you!"- Sidhu.
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
Indeed mate, I should have mentioned that - well spotted.Nah, Graham Thorpe off Richard Dawson (Sanjay Bangar being the batsman) is impossible to beat IMO. Never seen a simpler one put down, even on Sunday (or Wednesday) at Exeter CC.
Just a leading-edge, dolly's pace, straight to him, nice easy chest height, could have gone with up or down hands, but somehow missed it.
Might have had something to do with the same circumstances that meant the poor bloke had to fly home at the end of the Test.
Incidentally, Fred Tate's figures in the second innings of "his" Test match were: 5-3-7-2. No one ever remembers that, sadly.
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neville cardus
International Debutant
Vernon Philander's efforts last night must earn him a mention.
Days of Grace
International Captain
Paul Reiffel palming Klusener's straight drive over the boundary for six in the 1999 semi-final could have been one of the most significant drops ever, but we all know what happened soon after...
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
was abt to mention that...
Also Healy's drop of Lara in that 1999 test at Barbados. Not easy or simple, but what an effect it would have had.....
Days of Grace
International Captain
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
... not easy or simple, but catchable beyond doubt.
I have little doubt, TBH, that had that catch been taken those who claim Lara > Tendulkar would have no leg to stand on.