{"id":21706,"date":"2024-05-07T20:12:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=437285"},"modified":"2024-05-07T20:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T14:42:06","slug":"ipl-2024-jonty-rhodes-interviews-lucknow-ball-boy-after-the-young-cricketer-takes-a-stunning-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2024-jonty-rhodes-interviews-lucknow-ball-boy-after-the-young-cricketer-takes-a-stunning-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2024: Jonty Rhodes interviews Lucknow ball boy after the young cricketer takes a stunning catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the storm of IPL 2024, it\u2019s not just the players who are at their best but the unsung heroes\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">too<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. In the match between Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders, a young ball boy became the talk of the town as he completed an unbelievable catch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The third over of the first innings is about to end\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Marcus Stoinis, the Lucknow Super Giants all-rounder, goes for an uppercut over third man. The strokes are to\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be seen<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be believed<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, as the ball is sent to the boundary line for a six, slogging a six of pace. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But it was a catch between two fielders on which the \u2018 Focus of Attention\u2019 was put. A ball boy standing to garrison along the road of ropes caught the ball, starving him of anything; he knew\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">that it<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0would be six. The unconsidered man showed such an unbelievable check which even the best players could be enthusiastic about. Although the home team lost the match against the Kolkata Knight Riders, this became the pick of the\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">match<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jonty Rhodes interviewing the ball boy who took a brilliant catch. \ud83d\udc4c<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 A lovely moment of IPL 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YOdN5EdMN8\">pic.twitter.com\/YOdN5EdMN8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricCrazyJohns\/status\/1787355073108148333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After the match, when asked about the star, KKR captain Shreyas Iyer said that he was\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">very pleased<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0by the appearance of the children. They showed a positive attitude and were not typical with the challenge\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">at hand<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Meanwhile, the video of Jonty Rhodes\u2019 ball boy that has\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">been trending <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">online caught the attention of the cricket player; the talented sportsman can be heard in a conversation with the player, to whom he had been talking about different types of takiing the catch and the young boy also admired Jonty\u2019s gesture towards him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the storm of IPL 2024, it\u2019s not just the players who are at their best but the unsung heroes\u00a0too\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3720,683],"class_list":["post-21706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ipl-2024","tag-jonty-rhodes"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}