The Australian now has claim to being one of the greatest in the game and shows the euphoria a catch safely taken can ignite
Steve Smith has an array of catches throughout his Test career that emit one of the purest delights of cricket.Steve Smith has an array of catches throughout his Test career that emit one of the purest delights of cricket.
Ponting would snarl, chew his gum like it had personally affronted him and spit in his palms directly in front of the batter’s eye line at short leg or silly mid-off. In his early days, Smith would don the helmet and do his time at ‘boot hill’ too. Both men have pulled off the inexplicable all over the field. Whether taking swirling cloudbusters in the deep, holding on to rapier drives in the covers or full-blooded cut shots at backward point.
Catching is one of the great joys of the game, and – bear with me here – maybe of life itself? The act of plucking a travellingout of the air and cradling it safely in your hands taps into something deeply satisfying in the human condition. Cricketer or not, most of us can relate to the feeling in some way.