Will Jacks flying one-handed under the Brisbane lights. <\/p>\n
The batter was the great Steve Smith. The ball was behind him.<\/p>\n
Surrey all-rounder Jacks clung on and England’s fans roared in belief that a fightback may be possible in the second Ashes Test.<\/p>\n
“This is as good of a catch as I’ve ever seen,” said former England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special. <\/p>\n
“Oh my word! It doesn’t get any better than that, that’s a piece of incredible movement from Jacks.”<\/p>\n
The catch itself – the athleticism to dive at leg gully and take the ball in his right hand – was impressive. <\/p>\n
It was even more special given the moment. <\/p>\n
Two balls earlier Ben Duckett had dropped Alex Carey. <\/p>\n
Brydon Carse had dismissed Cameron Green earlier in the over but, with the score 292-4, Smith remained and there was an unavoidable feeling a chance may have been missed.<\/p>\n
Jacks, who leaped into the arms of a wide-eyed Joe Root, ensured England would be celebrating after all. <\/p>\n
Australia remain in a strong position, and may still go 2-0 up in Brisbane, but the game felt alive again.<\/p>\n
“Will Jacks, take a bow,” said former England wicketkeeper Matt Prior said on TNT Sports.<\/p>\n
“That is an outstanding catch. <\/p>\n
“It is exactly what we were talking about – the fielders getting behind the bowlers. <\/p>\n
“He had to cover a huge amount of ground and he throws out a claw. It is an outstanding catch.”<\/p>\n
It was the bright spot for England in the field on day two with Duckett later dropping Josh Inglis, Carse spilling Michael Neser and Root getting fingertips to a Carey drive. <\/p>\n
All of this came after Jamie Smith dropped Travis Head early in the innings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Jacks flying one-handed under the Brisbane lights. The batter was the great Steve Smith. The ball was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-330568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}