Short-leg is likely one of the hardest and most dangerous positions to subject at in cricket. Being stationed on the place, a participant has merely a fraction of a second to react. With the assistance of ability and a little bit of luck at occasions, the gamers over time have pulled off some glorious catches on the place. Of newest, Peter Hanscomb grabbed a shocking catch of Shreyas Iyer within the second Test in New Delhi. During India’s first innings within the recreation, Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon bowled into the physique of Iyer, who flicked the ball in direction of the leg aspect from the center of his bat, however Handscomb’s sensational reflexes noticed the fielder taking a blinder,

“Oh, it’s a fluke. It’s an absolute fluke. Bat-pad catches. I mean unless they lob to you, they basically go in or they don’t,” stated Handscomb whereas speaking in regards to the catch in a video shared by Cricket Australia.

India defeated Australia by 6 wickets within the second Test to take an unassailable lead of 2-0 within the four-match sequence. Chasing a goal of 115 within the fourth innings, India comfortably reached dwelling, because of Cheteshwar Pujara‘s unbeaten 31. In the match, Virat Kohli turned the quickest batter to attain 25,000 worldwide runs.

Australia had scored 263 runs of their first innings earlier than they bowled out the hosts for 262. In the second half of the sport, Ravindra Jadeja registered a seven-wicket haul whereas Ravichandran Ashwin took three because the Rohit Sharma-led aspect bundled out the friends for 113 runs.

A paltry goal of 115 failed to bother India because the hosts achieved it with six wickets in hand.

The third match of the sequence is about to happen on the Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore on March 1.

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