{"id":9009,"date":"2025-08-10T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=626827"},"modified":"2025-08-10T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T11:20:23","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-1st-t20i-fan-catches-ball-single-handedly-holding-beer-cans-in-the-other-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/australia-vs-south-africa-1st-t20i-fan-catches-ball-single-handedly-holding-beer-cans-in-the-other-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"[WATCH] Australia vs South Africa, 1st T20I: Fan catches ball single-handedly, holding beer cans in the other hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"376\">A spectacular crowd catch lit up the <strong data-start=\"221\" data-end=\"270\">Australia vs South Africa, 1st T20I in Darwin<\/strong> when an Australian fan grabbed a six with one hand \u2014 all while holding two beer cans in his other hand.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"378\" data-end=\"770\">The moment came in the 13th over, on ball 12.4, when <strong data-start=\"431\" data-end=\"444\">Tim David<\/strong> launched <strong data-start=\"454\" data-end=\"470\">Corbin Bosch<\/strong> over deep square leg for a six. The ball travelled flat and fast towards the crowd, where the fan, sitting in the front row, showed remarkable reflexes. Holding two beer cans in his right hand, he stuck out his left hand and completed the catch cleanly, sparking loud cheers from the Darwin crowd.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CALLING IT \u2013 BEST CROWD CATCH OF THE YEAR AND IT'S ONLY AUGUST!<\/p>\n<p>Two cans in one hand, Kookaburra in the other. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUSvSA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AUSvSA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OHGSlI2y2w\">pic.twitter.com\/OHGSlI2y2w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketcomau\/status\/1954502507679641617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two beer cans in right hand, and caught the ball with the left hand.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming he was holding the beer cans in his right hand, he is a righty. Warra catch. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YmQK9MUXvv\">pic.twitter.com\/YmQK9MUXvv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FarziCricketer\/status\/1954488571324436531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"772\" data-end=\"1074\">The incredible effort quickly went viral on social media, with fans on Twitter\/X praising it as one of the catches of the summer. Many highlighted the degree of difficulty \u2014 balancing beer without spilling while cleanly holding onto a speeding cricket ball \u2014 calling it \u201cpeak Aussie cricket culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1076\" data-end=\"1242\">It wasn\u2019t just a great spectator moment; it also came during a crucial phase of Australia\u2019s innings, with Tim David in explosive form on his way to a 29-ball fifty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spectacular crowd catch lit up the Australia vs South Africa, 1st T20I in Darwin when an Australian fan grabbed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":31784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","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\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}