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This is bloody difficult, They are all so great. at a pinch I'll go for Steve waughs in 1988. Pontings and Mcgraths are **** excellent, it is a short half head margin

Was that theone Waugh caught behind the sight screen? Why is Hussey's catch not included- that's a contender (with Punter's) for catch of the year?

Yep, forgot about Hussey's snare, apologies

That Dyson catch was gold. I think I remember Matthew Haydon taking one very very similar on an Ashes tour before he was in the side - it was in a warm up match. Just as good.

It's too hard to choose... but there ARE more than that - I remember Mike Valleta taking some screamers. Mark Waugh at the MCG in the slips I think off Warne?

I think I would go for McGrath and Ponting tied.



If it were ANY catch from any team - have to include Collingwood last year - Matthew Haydon was left speechless.

If we're on the topic of catches from other players, anyone remember Matthew Sinclair from NZ during the ODI @ Telstra Dome in 04 catching Hayden on the boundary?!? Dove outstretched and caught the ball behind him.

Good collection of catches 80TM.
Like Waugh's to dismiss Harper as it was bordering on sheer madness. Don't think he really had too much idea where the sightscreen was but he never took his eyes off the ball.
Sinclairs catch was great, Collingwood's was awesome and who can forget John Dyson. Wouldn't mind a dollar for every time a football commentator has referred to a mark as a "John Dyson" when marking in that outstretched diving position.
Seem to remember Dean Jones taking an awesome catch in the covers in a test match in the Carribean in 1991.

I'm going to test the memories here of a few people.

When I see a great catch, I always ask Dad if it was better than a catch he saw on the TV of Derek Randall. It was somewhere in the 1979-82 period in a ODI, he said that the ball was past him, and he had to fully outstretch in the air backwards to catch it.

Does anyone know of the catch i.e Year, ground, opponent?

spell_check wrote:I'm going to test the memories here of a few people.

When I see a great catch, I always ask Dad if it was better than a catch he saw on the TV of Derek Randall. It was somewhere in the 1979-82 period in a ODI, he said that the ball was past him, and he had to fully outstretch in the air backwards to catch it.

Does anyone know of the catch i.e Year, ground, opponent?

Remember John Emburey taking one that fits this description to dismiss a rampant Dean Jones (pretty sure it was Jones, made a ton that night whatever the case) in the one day series that was held in 1987 in Perth while the America's Cup was on and were also the the first day/night matches played in Perth.
May still be one taken by Randall that you're referring to but I certainly can't recall it.

Yeah I remember it as an 8 yo, watching the highlights show two months after it happened, we didn't have 'live TV" in the backblocks of the NT then.

1979-80, first series after the compromise day night match, Randell was at Mid-wicket. great catch, ver similar to the Valetta Dissedent was refering to but he was at cover catching the ball off a left hander. Valetta also took a similar catch later that year at midwicket off a R hander in a B&H WSC match

Even though the Steve Waugh catch (the one where he went behind the sight screen) was a great catch. If it was taken today and the player went behind the screen, it would be given not out and the player gets 6 runs. I think this rule came in just ofter the catch. Plus it's one of the reasons the screens in Melb and Sydney are apart of the fence itself.

MightyEagles wrote:Even though the Steve Waugh catch (the one where he went behind the sight screen) was a great catch. If it was taken today and the player went behind the screen, it would be given not out and the player gets 6 runs. I think this rule came in just ofter the catch. Plus it's one of the reasons the screens in Melb and Sydney are apart of the fence itself.

I seem to remember ex umpire Robin Bailache being very critical of the Waugh catch, saying that it should have been a 6, so presumably that was the rule at the time anyway.

One of my favourite catches was taken by Border against New Zealand in about 87/88, taken full stretch in the slips.

I think the best catch I saw was Wundke? for SA in the early/mid 80s in the 1 day series who was fielding around square leg, dove full length to get one hand on a ball that was flying, it popped up, he then had to dive the other way to finish off the catch.

MightyEagles wrote: I think this rule came in just ofter the catch. Plus it's one of the reasons the screens in Melb and Sydney are apart of the fence itself.

No the rules changed in 2000, where the boundary was changed to a rope or the base of the fence. So no matter what back in 88-89 it would have been a catch.

I debated putting Border's catch in, Reid c Border b Gilbert (Gabba) 85-86, he took a similar catch four years later in the Hobart test against the 'Lankans.

Wundkes catch actually made the finals that year of the classic catches, one of the few times a domestic catch has made the cut. I'm pretty sure it was in the 85-86 season too.

Thanks for that Tassie.

Few other rippers:

79-80 Botham C&B (ball belted back to him and caught at 2nd attempt)
mid 80s Greg Matthews C&B (Viv Richards absolutely caned one back to him at the SCG and he held it)
2002 (?) Brett Lee against NZ (sliding one-hand outfield catch in one-dayer)

That Steve Waugh catch past the sightscreen was unbelievable.

Border 1985 v NZ at the Gabba.

Also, a few Mike Veletta catches around 87-88.

David Boon's catch at the MCG,short-leg(well,two short legs),to get Warnie the hat-trick.

Well,who else could I vote for..................

I can't split Mr Cricket/Punter form the current series. I also remember Wundkes catch, he almost flipped himself upside down- iirc SA were wearing their Red & Yellow (mostly Yellow) attire then, the competition may have even been sponsored by McDonalds.

I have cast my vote for the Dyson catch, that is always the catch that springs to mind straight away.

What about McGraths horizontal effort at Adelaide last year. Punters catch in the last ODI was also pretty spectacular, along with most of Symond's efforts.