Watch: Wriddhiman Saha pulls off the catch of the season

Team India has discovered a new wicket-taker in Umesh Yadav. On Indian wickets where the spinners are expected to rule the roost and opposition prepares for the spin challenge the pacer has played all the Test matches for the team this season and has been among the wickets. He is Virat Kohli’s reverse swing bowler and bowls only with the old ball. In the first Test against Australia on a Pune wicket that offered turn from the very first session Aussies were absolutely struggling to stay at the crease and then on an Umesh delivery Wriddhiman Saha pulled off an absolute stunner to give them the 8th blow.

In the 82nd over of the day when the ball was really old and the sun was beating down hard Umesh ran in and bowled with a lot of control and at a rapid pace most of his deliveries were well over the 140kmph and reverse swing at that pace is absolutely difficult to handle. He was rewarded with 2 wickets before that and when the tail was in the middle the Vidarbha express’ was too good for them.

The 4th ball of the 82nd over was short and wide and Steven O’Keefe tried to cut the ball hard but just managed an outside edge. The ball was flying, would have easily flown between the keeper and the slip but Saha put in a brilliant effort – superlative easily the best catch we have seen in the season. He dived to his right and stretched his strong arm well beyond imaginable reach and pouched the ball.

At one point Saha was parallel to the ground and almost defied gravity. Skipper Virat standing next to him in the slip cordon was surprised as well and when he hugged and patted him on the back had a ‘Woh dude that was stunning’ expression on his face.

Watch it here:

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