drop a catch

In the slips he hardly ever dropped a catch."

Bowes said that he once went for nearly three years without dropping a catch on the leg side boundary from his bowling.

Johnson had an unhappy game, scoring only seven runs in two innings, dropping a catch and taking match figures of 0/93.

He dropped a catch fielding at point.

He dropped a catch from Charles Kelleway, who went on to score 147 runs.

He spurned two run-out opportunities from the first two balls, and dropped a catch off the third.

In the evening session, England managed to take three wickets, but also dropped a catch and missed a stumping.

Jimmy Anderson churlishly ignored Bresnan's apology for dropping a catch.

Fielding is absurdly simplistic - it takes some effort to drop a catch - but sprinting between bases to beat the ball provides a welcome shot of excitement.

In the first innings Akmal dropped a catch of Eoin Morgan when he was on 23 who then went on to score 130.

The scrutiny increased after Waugh failed to pass 20 in the First Test against New Zealand in Brisbane and dropped a catch.

Trimble dropped a catch, bowled 4 overs conceding an expensive 32 runs and did not take a wicket, although a catch was dropped off his bowling.

Khan also dropped a catch of Grant Elliott in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy semi-final.

Geraint Jones dropped a catch off Michael Clarke's bat, but it did not prove to be crucial, as Clarke was lbw to Hoggard in the next over.

The match as a consolation saw Akmal take a superb catch of Kevin Pietersen before dropping a catch on the very next ball against Paul Collingwood.

It is said that he did not bowl one bad ball during this spell of three hours and J.T. Hearne dropped a catch off his bowling when Australia were at 7 for 99.

Gibbs famously dropped a catch in a World Cup game against Australia in 1999, when he attempted to throw the ball up into the air in celebration before he had full control of it.

Desmond Haynes' first taste of Test captaincy was not a very happy experience, going for a duck in the first innings, dropping a catch and demeaning himself with the sledging as the match slipped away.

In one of the most exciting finishes in Test match history, Hall had Benaud caught behind, then dropped a catch and two Australian batsmen were run out trying to make the winning run.

On one occasion during the 1992-93 World Series Cup, May was substituting for the injured Dean Jones and dropped a catch from Rameez Raja at extra cover, forcing Jones to return.

On 4 January 2002 in Kandy Muralitharan might have finished with the best-ever figures for a single innings, but after he had claimed nine wickets against Zimbabwe Russel Arnold dropped a catch at short leg.

According to his obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, "he was so quick in the field that his team-mates reputedly congratulated him when he dropped a catch on his Trinidad debut, because no one else could have got close."

Therefore, all we must hope is that Tendulkar hears the right voices in the crowd when he has edged a few seaming balls at Headingley into the gloves of the 'keeper and when the tiny bundle of sweaters frozen in the outfield at Middlesbrough drops a catch.

In June he took the first nine wickets to fall in the first innings against Essex, ending with 9-138; had wicket-keeper Steven Davies not dropped a catch offered by last man Darren Gough he would have become the first bowler ever to take all ten for the county.

During the 2007 World Cup, Joyce made fifties against the non-Test nations of Canada and Kenya, but made a duck against New Zealand in the first group game and 1 against his native Ireland as well as dropping a catch in the first Super Eight game.