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Duminy’s catch

By Will last year, mid-January Add your comment below

There’s nothing I like more than a really good catch. Yorkshire puddings; sunny winter days; the bosom of one’s family. Yes, they’re all shit compared a really good catch.

And JP Duminy’s today was one of the very best, for a number of reasons. It was at night, under a black sky, with floodlights obscuring his vision. He had to run, oh I don’t know, maybe 20 yards at full pelt. The ball was hit over his head, so he was running backwards and therefore blind. He had a cap on (I could never field in a cap for this very reason) and couldn’t see the ball until the very last second, when he still had some yardage to make up, so he dived forward. A top piece of sport and entertainment.

If ever there was an example of someone taking his chances (that works metaphorically as well as the obvious literal pun. Thanks), it’s that catch by Duminy. South Africa’s tour of Australia has been all the richer for him realising his immense ability.

** There are some disgustingly flaky videos of the catch on Youtube, most of which have been uploaded by some freeloading twit attempting to advertise his silly little website, so I’ll let you try and find it when a proper one surfaces

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3 Responses to “Duminy’s catch”

  • Rae wrote:
    January 14th, 2009 at 2.09 am

    I was at the game and the catch was taken in front of the members (not far from the lower level bar:)). Duminy was inside the circle when he started (fielding restrictions), and almost to the boundary rope when he took it.

    He actually got a standing ovation from the members, and the people sitting adjacent to the catch were going wild.

  • Bret Treasure wrote:
    January 15th, 2009 at 8.39 am

    A wonderful sporting moment. Typically astute of you to pick up on it. A fielding digression:

    One of the TV commentators made an interesting comment about a missed run out attempt. He said the fieldsman had enough time to take another step towards the wicket before letting the ball go, as baseballers sometimes do. This would seem to be very sensible and could be empirically tested for accuracy compared to standard operating procedure.

  • richo wrote:
    January 16th, 2009 at 2.55 am

    A very good catch, which made the sitter he misjudged later off Cameron White unbelievable.

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