She’s an international cricketer for heaven’s sake! She should be taking those in her sleep.
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She’s an international cricketer for heaven’s sake! She should be taking those in her sleep.
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by the same methodology of thinking...can't believe the best golfers in the world don't make a hole in one every time. They're the best in the world for heaven's sake
It's a nice catch, it isn't exceptional. If it goes down you would not be impressed.
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I'd be expecting it to be dropped more times than caught, that's for sure.
I'd expect 50-50 at club level, 75-25 at county level and 85-15 at international level.
i'd be expecting those who drop that to hold their heads in shame
Utter nonsense.
Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. A jumping one handed catch is a superb thing to pull off and most people, men and women, would drop that effort most of the time.
she "jumped" about 6 inches
we are not talking about "most people" but professional international cricketers!
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Just watched it out of curiosity, hmmmm, maybe she’s right handed 
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The fact she needed to jump should say most things. I'd say the majority of the England team wouldn't have got near it. Ecclestone is 6ft tall. That ball is long gone over everyone's head. That, and the reaction to judge the flight, time the jump and snaffle it.....great work
Women can’t generally jump as high as men. That was a very good jump and take at full stretch.
May I suggest you just don’t watch women’s sport if it makes you want to criticise it constantly? It’ll do your blood pressure a world of good.
She’s a left handed bowler but right handed bat. I’d imagine that her left is her stronger catching hand.Just watched it out of curiosity, hmmmm, maybe she’s right handed
I'm not separating into genders. I'm just stating how I see that catch, how achievable it is, what the expectations should be for it.
i critised the way the commentary went on about it being the best catch ever taken when it really wasn't. the Nat Sciver-Brunt catch was much harder
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I hear you but can only think your expectations are based upon what a male club, county, international cricketer would find easy/hard/one in a million catch.
I played club cricket and doubt I'd have got close. She is slightly wrong footed and still manages to leave the ground, arch her back and reach the ball...and hold onto it. I think her reaction and that of her teammates indicates they thought, amongst their peers, it was a pretty good catch.
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I think an issue is that, regardless of gender, most professional and even international cricketers are not really "elite" sportspeople in the class that we've come to expect watching other sports. Some are, but the vast majority are not - they're just good cricketers.
She didn't leap like a salmon and catch it blind and backhanded like Ben Stokes 4 years ago, but it was a great catch by any standard.
That is by some distance the most ridiculous analogy I’ve ever seen on this forum.
I’ve just watched it again to see if I’m missing something and I don’t think I am. Ecclestone barely got off the ground. It’s a one handed catch, big deal.
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Just bought tickets to take 3 non-cricket loving friends from work to Invincibles v Rockets at The Oval in The Hundred. They're all pleasingly excited about it.
