A staggering Glenn Phillips catch in the gully once again has cricket fans losing their collective minds. In the first Test between New Zealand and England at Christchurch , Phillips produced a gully catch for the ages off the bowling of Tim Southee to remove England’s Ollie Pope for 77. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Glenn Phillips takes unbelievable gully catch.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today The tourists were well and truly on the ropes at 4-71 in Friday’s second session but Harry Brook and Pope put together a fighting partnership of 151 for the fifth wicket to cut the deficit in half by tea. Brook scored a brilliant unbeaten century to drag England back into the contest, driving the tourists to within 29 runs of New Zealand’s tally of 348 at 5-319 at the end of Day 2. Both benefited from some uncharacteristically sloppy fielding from the Black Caps before Phillips soared in the-play-of-the-day moment to take an absolute blinder.
Fans immediately did a double-take, with the catch basically identical to one he took in March this year . Not only that, the previous catch — which dismissed Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne for 90 — was also off the bowling of Southee the bowler and also at Christchurch. “Got a habit of this.
What a fielder,” one fan said on social media, while resurfacing vision of the previous catch And they all used one word to describe Phillips and that was, of course, “Superman” (which is how TVNZ described him in March). “This.
