It has now been two days of sensational catch-taking in Yorkshire’s contest against Sussex in the County Championship. A day after James Wharton took arguably the catch of the season, a young fan took a nonchalant catch while sitting in the stands.The moment came on Wednesday when Finlay Bean, who scored 21, whipped a Danny Lamb delivery off the pads and sent it sailing over mid-wicket for a six. If the casual shot and its rewards of a maximum were not awe-worthy enough, fact that a youngster – sitting front row on wooden benches – catching it smoothly made it doubly special.Moment after taking the catch, he lobbed it back towards the ground, plucked his bat and gave a high-five to the man next to him as the crowd applauded his effort.It was maybe in the air at Scarborough with Wharton taking a worldie a day prior for Yorkshire against Sussex.On Day 1 of the match, Tom Haines tried to play a Jack White ball over mid-wicket, only to sky a top-edge.Wharton, stationed at shortish mid-wicket, ran across towards deep square-leg and leaped full length, holding onto the ball mid-air for Sussex’s first wicket of the match.“I completely agree with that statement, yeah,” said Wharton, when told that the competition’s social media account had labelled it, ‘possibly the greatest catch of all time.’“Tom Haines hit the shot, it went up in the air and I started running thinking, ‘I’m not going to get anywhere near it’. But it was like the ball just sort of stopped in the air for a while as I was running. So, I was like, ‘Oh, bloody hell, I might have a chance here’.“It’s one of those where you just hope it hits your hand and sticks, and obviously it did.“I wouldn’t have stuck a dive in if I didn’t think I could reach it.“My only concern was I didn’t actually look where the rope was or where people were.“I was obviously lucky that I wasn’t anywhere near the rope.”
