PRESENTING THE GREATEST MOMENTS EVER IN CRICKET CLASSIC CATCHES TO BASEBALL MAD AMERICANS

Cricket may have become too professional for its own good
over the past decade but it still remains one of my favour-
ite sports, definitely spectator wise. I like playing golf but
i avoid watching it, even an unfunny comedy is more en-
tertaining. Back in the early days of one day internation-
al cricket, it was only a novelty and an exhibition sport,
and the players didn't treat the result so seriously like
they are these days on million dollar contracts. Back
in the Dennis Lillee and Rodney Marsh days, most of
the cricketers were lucky to get contracts worth ten
thousand dollars from the Australian Cricket Board,
and there were no Nike or KFC endorsements on the
side for cricketers as well. Regardless of how clinical
the game of cricket has become and is being played
by most first grade players nowadays, except maybe
in the 20/20 format which is now the most exciting
form of cricket, occasionally magic moments have
occured on the cricket ground in the form of the
greatest catches of all time, and the video clips
accompanying this article features some of the
very best of the bunch. There are a few notable
omissions which i am surprised didn't make the
cut of this INSIDE SPORT best of collection, the
best catch in the history of cricket to me is in
fact the blinder which Alan Border caught from
second slip in a test match to dismiss a New
Zealander named John Reid, even consider-
ing that Reid's errant shot made it a more
possible for the catch to be there for the
taking. I certainly had my american read-
ers in mind to write this & sample some
classic catches, cricket to americans re-
mains a quirky fringe sport that nobody
in the US barely knows about or how in
fact it is played, baseball continues to
rule the roost there as far as summer
sport goes. Maybe after they see this
they will think cricket is pretty cool.