Sentence examples for a catch behind from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a catch behind" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of cricket to describe a situation where the wicketkeeper catches the ball after it has been hit by the batsman, but before it touches the ground.
Example: "The bowler delivered a perfect delivery, and the wicketkeeper made a stunning catch behind to dismiss the batsman."
Alternatives: "a wicketkeeper catch" or "a behind-the-stumps catch".

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Peterson stood with hands on hip when all the fielders went up for a catch behind, some over-exuberantly, but umpire Steve Garratt remained impassive.

The South Africa captain Graeme Smith followed in the seventh over after Pakistan's claims for a catch behind had initially been turned down.

The appeal for a catch behind was turned down by the umpire Paul Reiffel, but reviewed by England, and it was hard to see on the visual evidence, without benefit of Hot Spot or Snicko, how that could be overturned.

Andrew Flintoff and Tim Ambrose threatened briefly to hold firm until the latter fenced a catch behind to give Steyn his second wicket of the innings and Boucher his ninth victim of the match.

Before lunch, each of Cook, Joe Root and James Vince had followed him, the captain bottom-edging a pull on to his stumps, Root steering a catch behind from a short ball from Wahab Riaz, and Vince edging a snorter from the same bowler.

Yorkshire's captain, Andrew Gale, looked to have played himself in when he followed an Anyon delivery outside off-stump to edge a catch behind, but Jonny Bairstow can only have been under instructions to lift the scoring rate, because having hit Anyon for consecutive boundaries, he tried to make it three in a row and lost his middle stump.

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The fielding team scream an appeal for a caught behind, but he was nowhere near it.

The umpre raises the finger, Samuels reviews, but as with the Simmons review earlier, how can you overturn a caught behind decision without the right gizmos and gadgets?

Morkel is urged into a more spirited appeal for a caught behind dismissal down the leg side to Siddle but it doesn't look like there's much in it.

A fine delivery from Anderson had England appealing for a caught behind but umpire Aleem Dar gave it not out.

Jordan wants a caught behind against Blackwood, but Billy Bowden says no, and England have no reviews left.

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