Costliest Dropped Catches In Cricket
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Virat Kohli & Ishant Sharma drop Brendon McCullum, Wellington 2014

Costliest Drop Catches In Cricket
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Ohh Virat and Ishant, the two Santa clause that helped Brendon McCullum scale Mount.300 in Test cricket and under circumstances.

New Zealand were reeling at 5-94 in their second innings of the 2014 Wellington Test when Brendon McCullum proceeded to uppishly drive towards silly mid-on. Kohli decided to take the catch one-handed and in turn, ended up shelling it. McCullum was on 9.

Costliest Drop Catches In Cricket
Ishant Sharma (credits – AFP)

McCullum offered another chance when he was at 34 but Ishant Sharma failed to drop a return catch. No more chances would be offered a post that as the New Zealand captain got his act together to script a match-saving partnership with BJ Watling and James Neesham.

For Ishant Sharma, it was the third instance of him dropping a catch and the batsman ending up cashing it big time; Michael Clarke’s 329 and Alastair Cook’s 294 remain the other two examples.

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