WATCH: Outrageos footy skills in action by wicket-keeper in tag team catch

Essex wicket-keeper Adam Wheater brought his footballing skills to great use and helped his team secure an eye-catching dismissal in the County Championship. Wheater nailed a foot tap to perfection to inflict a rebounded catch through to the short-leg fielder Ryan ten Doeschate and saw the back of opposition lower-order batter Mason Crane. The Essex […]
 
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WATCH: Outrageos footy skills in action by wicket-keeper in tag team catch

Essex wicket-keeper Adam Wheater brought his footballing skills to great use and helped his team secure an eye-catching dismissal in the County Championship.

Wheater nailed a foot tap to perfection to inflict a rebounded catch through to the short-leg fielder Ryan ten Doeschate and saw the back of opposition lower-order batter Mason Crane.

The Essex wicket-keeper showed fantastic game awareness and agility to pull off a rare form of dismissal of the bowling of off-spinner Simon Harmer.

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The dismissal and the amusing incident is from the 2019 County Championship Division 1 game played in Chelmsford.

WATCH: Outrageos footy skills in action by wicket-keeper in tag team catch

In Hampshire’s second-innings, Essex off-spinner Harmer was bowling to No.10 Crane for the first ball of the 30th over.

As the delivery from Harmer turned and bounced sharply into Crane, the right-hander couldn’t control his defensive push and inside edge the ball to Adam Wheater, the wicket-keeper.

With Crane making his defensive prod from the backfoot, Wheater hardly had any time to complete a clean catch. He fumbled up the grab and saw the ball rollling down near the turf.

But just in the nick of time, the keeper adjusted and kicked the ball up in the air, so as to make sure it lobs across to the waiting short-leg fielder. Ten Doeschate, who was placed there, took an easy catch and Wheater and the rest of the Essex fielders went up in celebration.

It was a safe take on Ten Doeschate’s part but it wouldn’t at all have been possible if Adam Wheater had not shown his fantastic agility and not made a foot tap at the last minute.

A wicket later, Essex secured victory by an innings & 8 runs in one of the most low-scoring County Championship fixtures in recent years. Despite making only 214 in their only innings with the bat, Essex came out triumphant, dismissing Hampshire for scores of just 118 and 88.