South African spinner Tabraiz Shamsi took to X (formerly Twitter) just the other day to explain what he meant earlier on a specific moment of the 2024 T20 World Cup final which stuck in his mind.
Shamsi inside of a playful post published a small video excerpt of a normal pastoral game in which a bizarre way of testing the catching of one player by ropes is demonstrated.
He joked saying that at least this wouldn’t have happened if they used this ridiculous method in the World cup final thanks to Suryakumar Yadav’s catch in the final being given not out.
“If they used this method to check the catch in the World Cup final, maybe it would have been given not out” this is a qote found in his first post on X.
Shamsi’s comment was in reference to the final over of the T20 World Cup when South African team require 16 runs to be scored within 6 balls.
As David Miller swung hard onto the full-toss served by Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav was stretched out against the boundary cushions to take an incredible catch.
In a jaw-dropping feat of fielding, Surya caught the ball and threw it up as heleft the playing field, went back to the playing area again and completed the catch. This particular play was instrumental in clinching the World Cup title for India and has been highlight of the tournament ever since.
But Shamsi’s joke didn’t go so well on social media.
Owing to this, Shamsi put up a post on X, which said “In the event that some people did not get that it is simply a joke, and no one is shedding tears, let me explain it to you like it’s explained to a 4 year old child. It’s A Joke, that word seems to a person like Let it be a very hot one.”
Nonetheless, Yadav’s catch evokes thunderous applause whilst disheartening all opposition fans and is one moment in time that all Indian supporters and followers would want to remember from their successful campaign.
The furor over the catch in question, to the extent of even making out that the boundary cushion was possibly pushed back on purpose, was just one of the features of the high octane drama that was the World Cup final.
