5 best fielding efforts by Mohammad Kaif

#4 Paul Collingwood’s run out, 2004

A clueless Collingwood can only walk back as Team India celebrates, 2004

Arguably England’s best fielder ever, Paul Collingwood, was at the receiving end of another of Kaif’s insane fielding efforts when he managed to run out the Englishman before anyone could even bat an eyelid.

The effort was so quick that even the broadcaster’s cameraman couldn’t pick the ball’s movement in real-time, and we had to run through the slow-mo replays to marvel at the brilliance of Kaif.

Collingwood, trying to attack Harbhajan, used his feet to get to the pitch of the flighted delivery. He tried to nurdle it past Kaif, positioned at short leg, but could barely turn back by the time Kaif stopped the ball and relayed the throw with his left hand towards keeper Dinesh Karthik, who dismantled the stumps as if part of a practiced drill.