Sam Billings takes a diving catch with one hand.© Twitter
Sam Billings A brilliant catch was taken during England A’s ongoing warm-up match against South Africa at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury on Tuesday. England pacer Craig Overton bowled a back-of-length delivery to the South African captain on the first day of the four-day match. Dean Elgary And the latter tried to play his shot on the front foot and shoved it to the side. The ball flew between wicketkeeper Billings and first slip, and was dying before the former made a quick dive to his left and caught it before touching the ground.
England Cricket posted the video of this catch on social media, in which Billings’ brilliant catch was praised. “What a grab @sambillings,” the caption read.
WATCH: Sam Billings’ catch to dismiss Dean Elgar here
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South Africa are 99/2 at lunch.
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After the four-day warm-up match ends, both England and South Africa will face each other in a three-match Test series starting on 17 August at Lord’s in London. The second match starts on 25 August at Old Trafford in Manchester, while the teams will return to London for the third game which is set to begin on 8 September at the Kennington Oval.
Both teams enter the Test series by playing six white-ball matches. While the three-match ODI series between them ended in a 1–1 draw when rain spoiled the deciding game, the multiple-match T20I series saw South Africa win 2–1 despite losing the opener. .
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