New Arrival in Cricket

One would be wondering what's meant by the title of this blog?yes it is true. There are different kinds of catches in cricket by which a batsman can be declared out in the game of cricket. 1)caught behind by wicket keeper. 2)Caught and Bowled by the bowler. 3)caught by fielder in any position on field. 4) Caught by a fielder at the border when the ball is not allowed to touch the ground by pushing it back to ground if the Fielder's feet is outside the fence and complete the catch by entering back in the field. Apart from all these a new kind of catches has taken birth in a match held at Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday the 1st of March 2019.

This unusual catch of cricket took place in a match between the touring women cricket team of NewZealand & the Governor General Eleven ofAustralia at Sydney Cricket ground What exactly happened is as narrated below: This unusual catch by the Bowler had happened in the 45th over ofNewZealand innings.Hither Graham of Australian Team was the bowler .She bowled to Kathy Penkins who wanted to strike the ball to the opposite boundary line.She did it.But unfortunately for NZ & Luckily for the Aussies women team the ball went straight to the non-striker's end whereKathy Martin was standing.Thevball was very fast .Kathy Matin turned away from the path of the ball to save herself from becoming a target .Had it hit her it could have been a case of serious injury.Whikevturningvto save herself the ball touched the bat in the hand of Kathy Msrtin and Rose in the air.Hither Graham the bowler did not offer a butter hand & safely accepted the catch gracefully. Although unintentionally Kathy Martin was indirectly the cause for the loss of the wicket of team mate Kathy Penkins.However Kathy Martin compensated for her error of judgement by scoring a Glorious 72 runs. Thus the Kiwis made,perhaps,a historical score of 323 runs for the loss of 7 Wickets. In reply,thecAustralian women could make just 157 runs (all out) Finally the NewZealand Women recorded a Historical victory over the Governor's Eleven of Australia. This match may not enter the History to books of international cricket being a tour match. But this will be remembered for a long time as a First classCricket Match in the books of cricket as an event in which an unusual catch took birth. SreedharanMundanat 2nd March 2019