VIDEO | Bhuvneshwar Kumar defies physics to take one-handed stunner diving against momentum
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Bhuvneshwar Kumar is definitely one of the fittest cricketers going around and his incredible reflex was on the show when he pulled off a fine one-handed catch. Although the weight of his body was on the other side, he dived to his left to ensure that Roston Chase's catch was safely gobbled.
After sending Nicholas Pooran back to the hut, Bhuvneshwar Kumar opened the floodgate that the Windies players had no respite from. His nagging line coupled with the fact that he managed to move the ball away from the batsmen on a regular basis with the old ball confused the Windies players big-time and things became inevitable towards the end.
On the penultimate ball of the 36th over, Bhuvneshwar bowled a length delivery on the stumps and Chase wanted to work the delivery on the on-side. However, seeing the ball moving away, he squared up a touch and the ball ended up hitting his leading edge. It was innocuous till then but Bhuvi was fully aware of it. The difficulty of gobbing the catch was that his body was falling to his right on the follow-through and reversing the momentum would have taken a big flick in the opposite direction.
However, the Indian pacer didn't waste any time and made a solid acrobatic sideways leap to reach to the delivery and had it in his hands before falling on the ground. The catch was as sensational as it could and Virat Kohli couldn't control his happiness by seeing the catch.
What a catch by #bhuvi @BhuviOfficial @BCCI pic.twitter.com/t9aHZBqMx3
— Prasad prabhudesai (@Prasadprabhude2) August 11, 2019
