KATYA WITNEY
Breaking down the elements needed for a catch to be truly brilliant

Last week, Paul Coughlin went viral when he pulled off a seemingly impossible catch off his own bowling in Durham’s Blast match against Lancashire. The catch had all the ingredients to grab attention: lightning-fast reaction time, the catcher off balance in his follow-through, the potential for serious injury, and a disbelieving reaction from the unlucky victim, in this case Matthew Hurst.Once it gained traction on social media, high-profile names joined the chorus of voices labelling it ‘...