Published: Sep 04, 2016, 10:56 PM (IST)
Edited: Sep 05, 2016, 11:10 AM (IST)
With a match all poised up wherein both teams are trying their best to win, huge sixes are bound to be witnessed. This is exactly what is happening in the fifth One Day International (ODI) at Cardiff between England and Pakistan. Pakistan are in a bid to chase a target of 303 set by England. During this pursuit, Pakistan’s wicket keeper batsman Sarfraz Ahmed played an aggressive knock of 90 of 73 balls. During this, Ahmed struck a huge six on the balling of Chris Woakes over deep midwicket. The ball cleared the boundary ropes easily as Ben Stokes tried to catch it. But instead of Stokes it was Mateen Sharif from the crowd to catch that ball in a stellar fashion. Sharif leaned all over the advertising hoardings to lean and catch a blinder of a catch one-handedly. FULL CRICKET SCORECARD: Pakistan vs England, 5th ODI at Cardiff
Acknowledging and appreciating this splendid catch, Sharif has been awarded an trip to Australia by Foster’s Beer company. This news was shared by Glamorgan Cricket’s official Twitter handle. With the match already so tensed this is a relieving news for some acrobatic fans like Sharif who certainly wouyld have had no idea when he took that catch. READ: Pakistan vs England, 5th ODI at Cardiff: Likely XI for Azhar Ali and co.
Congratulations to Mateen Sharif who has won a holiday to Australia after his superb catch, courtesy of @FostersUK pic.twitter.com/go1MssYinn
— Glamorgan Cricket (@GlamCricket) September 4, 2016
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Talking about the last ODI, the match is quite balanced as it is still very unclear about which team will be winning this match. Pakistan got off to a good start and looked in a pretty comfortable position to win it, but timely wickets of well settled batsman like Sarfraz Ahmed and Shoaib Malik has put the match in balance.
