WATCH, BBL | Lachy Shaw stays in tune with dancing Kookaburra to pull off nighttime stunner in Adelaide

The Adelaide Strikers found themselves reeling at 32/3 in a must-win encountet against the Sydney Sixers at the Adelaide Oval before a 97-run stand between Ollie Pope (57 off 39) and Alex Ross (48 off 37) for the fourth wicket, followed by a scintillating unbeaten 32 from Jamie Overton in just 14 deliveries, helped them recover and post an imposing target of 183. The hosts could have potentially done even better had Ross stayed a bit longer after his stand with Pope broke down, were it not for a Lachlan Shaw blinder that could prove to be a match-winning contribution.

Looking to accelarate with the death overs underway and having already faced 37 deliveries, Ross' eyes lit up when Ben Dwarshius delivered his third delivery of the penultimate over right in the slot. However, the batter's heave down the ground was not well timed and the ball sliced off the willow before soaring high into the night-sky. Lachlan Shaw, stationed at square leg, immediately realized it was his catch to take as he hovered in from the boundary trying to judge where the Kookaburra would end up. However, the wind meant the task was far from straightforward as the white rock danced all over while hung in the heavens while the screaming floodlights only exacerbated mattes. Nevertheless, Shaw's eyes remained fixated on the ball as he himself swayed around in an attempt to stay in touch with the ball's trajectory before pulling out a well-calculated forward dive in the end to complete the job.

Not only did the ball stick in Shaw's palms at full-stretch but nestled in such that the catch almost looked easy, much in contradiction to reality. Dwarshius simply could not believe what his teammate had pulled off as expressed with his mouth wide agape while the rest of the Sixers swarmed in ecstatically to celebrate the sensational effort.