Hanuma Vihari drop catch: Watch Vihari drops Marnus Labuschagne off Jasprit Bumrah on second ball of Day 4

Dixit Bhargav | 10/01/2021
Hanuma Vihari drop catch: Watch Vihari drops Marnus Labuschagne off Jasprit Bumrah on second ball of Day 4

Hanuma Vihari drop catch: After failing with the bat, the Indian batsman erred in the field as well at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

During the fourth day of the third Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia in Sydney, India batsman Hanuma Vihari erred on the field to drop Australia batsman Marnus Labuschagne on the second delivery of the day.

In a situation when India needed early wickets, Vihari not holding on to a regulation catch was the last thing which the visitors required. Jasprit Bumrah, who was bowling the first over today, couldn’t appear as to believe that a simple catch has been dropped.

Labuschagne, who had played an aerial flick off Bumrah, had hit the ball straight to Vihari at square leg. In what was a knee-height catch, the 27-year old player let his team down by not completing the catch.

Labuschagne, who was batting at 47* at that point in time, ended up scoring 73 (118) with the help of nine fours. Having scored a 10th Test half-century, the right-hand batsman shared a 103-run partnership for the third wicket alongside Steven Smith.

It was debutant Navdeep Saini who dismissed both Labuschagne and Matthew Wade (4) but the same didn’t stop the hosts from building a significant lead which has crossed the 250-run mark now.

Hanuma Vihari drop catch

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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