Without an iota of doubt, T20 cricket has brought a great improvement in fielding standards; there is no place to hide for the fielders in the hustle and bustle of the fastest format of the game. But some of the catches we have seen in the Natwest T20 Blast, the English T20 league, have raised the bar to a different level altogether.
I’m referring particularly to the two stunning catches, involving team-work from the Yorkshire pair of Aaron Finch and Adam Lyth, taken in a matter of weeks. In the Roses match between Yorkshire and Lancashire just a few weeks back, it was Tom Smith who was the victim of the pair’s combined brilliance. Smith had hit the bowler, Adil Rashid, to the long-off boundary for what he thought was a certain six, only for Lyth to leap high in the air and knock the ball back into the field of play for Finch to complete a simple catch.
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If you thought that was astonishing, there was better to follow. In yesterday’s T20 match between Yorkshire and Leicestershire, Finch and Lyth combined once again to complete what was an even tougher catch than the previous one, and the Leicestershire batsman Josh Cobb was the one to suffer this time around. Rashid was the lucky bowler this time, as well.
Cobb had timed the ball well enough for it to fetch him six runs, but Lyth and Finch had other ideas: Lyth acrobatically pulled back the ball in mid-air back into the field of play from over the long-on boundary, and the Australian was there once again to complete a breathtaking one-handed diving catch low to his right.
I’m pretty certain that this latest piece of brilliance cannot be outdone. With Finch and Lyth, though, you never know.
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