The English wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor has once again come up with her stumping brilliance, as she had done some lightning-fast work with the gloves during England’s opening One-Day International against South Africa in Worcester.
Taylor, keeping up to England spearhead Anya Shrubsole, seamlessly collected a delivery going down the leg side and crashed the bails to leave Proteas first drop Sune Luus struggling outside her crease.
Television footage revealed the Shrubsole delivery was traveling at around 110km/hr, with Taylor’s reaction time estimated to be 0.6 seconds. Here is the video of the same:
Simply incredible! @Sarah_Taylor30 with the fastest hands in the game 👐
England are back in this: https://t.co/0Lu3Uc15g8 pic.twitter.com/7fWKdEATeD
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) June 9, 2018
The wicket wasn’t enough to stop England falling to a seven-wicket defeat, but was enough to draw praise from the legendary Australian wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist, who declared the Englishwoman the “best wicketkeeper in the game”.
Best in the world. @Sarah_Taylor30 https://t.co/nfJSly17Oh
— Adam Gilchrist (@gilly381) June 11, 2018
His thoughts were echoed by Australia great Lisa Sthalekar, who took to Twitter to declare it “another example of the reasons why Sarah Taylor is the best keeper in the world!”
Another example of the reasons shy @Sarah_Taylor30 is the best keeper in the world!! https://t.co/gtEm8KeVXD
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93) June 11, 2018
It’s not the first time Sarah has earned such praise, as she has represented England in 207 matches across all three formats since making her debut in 2006 – widely regarded as one of the best wicketkeepers in the world, male or female.
During last summer’s Commonwealth Bank Women’s Ashes in Australia, Taylor completed four stumpings, including an outstanding effort from the bowling of quick Katherine Brunt to dismiss Australia big-hitter Elyse Villani.
She stumped star allrounder Ellyse Perry twice in as many matches during the ODI part of the multi-format tour, while also thrilled the crowd at the day-night Test at North Sydney Oval with a sharp caught behind, again standing up to the stumps to Shrubsole.
Here is the video another brilliance of Sarah Taylor:
Last year, Taylor made headlines with a sublime leg-side stumping in the World Cup semi-final in Bristol, her lightning-fast glove work off a wide Natalie Sciver delivery simply too quick for South Africa’s Truisha Chetty.
As a cricket fan one has to agree with the fact that Sarah’s wicketkeeping style is quite similar to MS Dhoni, who is regarded as one of the pioneers of glovework.
