Virat Kohli & Ishant Sharma drop Brendon McCullum, Wellington 2014
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.
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.