Matthew Wade dismissal: Watch Virat Kohli runs-out Australian captain after dropping a sitter in Sydney T20I

Dixit Bhargav | 06/12/2020
Matthew Wade dismissal: Watch Virat Kohli runs-out Australian captain after dropping a sitter in Sydney T20I

Matthew Wade dismissal: The stand-in Australian captain played a blinder of an innings in his first international outing as captain.

During the second T20I of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia in Sydney, India captain Virat Kohli ran out his counterpart in Matthew Wade despite dropping a sitter on the same delivery.

It all happened on the last delivery of the eighth over when India all-rounder Washington Sundar deceived Wade by extra bounce on a delivery which lobbed off the left-hand batsman’s bat.

In what was among the easiest of catches for Kohli, he continued his poor catching form only to drop another sitter on this tour. However, Kohli was alert enough to realize that Wade was way outside the crease and had even expressed an intention of sneaking a run.

When non-striker Steven Smith rightly refused a single, Wade had nowhere to go than the dressing room after scoring his second T20I half-century. Well short of the ground when India wicket-keeper Lokesh Rahul dislodged the bails, Wade departed after scoring a good-looking 58 (32) with the help of 10 fours and a six.

Opening the batting alongside D’Arcy Short (9) in regular captain Aaron Finch’s absence, Wade justified his decision to bat at the top of the order by his impact-generating knock.

Matthew Wade dismissal vs India

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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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