Cameron Valente grabs sensational catch from Peter Handscomb’s shot

Tanish Chachra | 19/11/2019
Cameron Valente grabs sensational catch from Peter Handscomb's shot

Cameron Valente grabs sensational catch from Peter Handscomb’s shot in a match played in Marsh Cup between South Australia and Victoria.

In a match played in Marsh Cup, Cameron Valente caught a brilliant catch to send Peter Handscomb back to the pavilion, the efforts by the player to take the catch has been lauded, as the ball was tough to reach.

In the second last ball of the 28th over, Victoria skipper played a shot towards mid-off. The ball was out of the reach of Cameron Valente who was standing at that fielding position.

But he ran towards the ball, at the right time pounced at the ball and grabbed it to get rid of the batsman. Handscomb was in absolute shock as he did not expect Valente to grab the ball from such distance.

The Australian batsman fell short of 13 runs from his ton after he was caught out, meanwhile, commentator Mark Howard said ‘you will not see a better catch than that’.

The fall of Handscomb definitely swung the momentum in favour of the Redbacks. After a while, even Aaron Finch lost his wicket after scoring 119 off 123 balls on 45th over.
12 runs were required to win the match in last over but, Victoria were limited to 10 runs off the over and lost the match by 1 run. With this, both the teams failed to qualify for the final of the tournament.
South Australia and Victoria’s last match of the group stage and they finished the table at 3rd and 4th place respectively. Queensland and Australia have topped the table of this 6-team tournament. Both will face each other in the Marsh Cup Final on 26th November.
Nevertheless, both teams were involved in a breathtaking action, which had a dramatic end, with a total score of more than 643 by both sides.
Post Edited By: Tanish Chachra
Australia South Australia Victoria

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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