Area of the game once deemed a necessary chore has improved more than any other part of it in the last decade - and a catch or run-out may make a good meme
Flick your eyes across to an analogue clock and you’ll sometimes find that the second hand seems to stand still. Neuroscientists call this the “stopped clock illusion” and use it to prove how unreliable our perception of time can be. There was a fine example of a similar phenomenon at the Waca last weekend, at a quarter past two in the afternoon, when David Warner knocked the ball down to the off side and started out on a quick single. Temba Bavuma came sprinting in from point. He took 10 strides, dived, gathered the ball in his right hand, fell, and, all four limbs in the air, threw at the stumps. The entire scene took three seconds, the key piece of the action, Bavuma’s pick up and throw, around two 10ths of one of them.
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