Jadeja pulls off sensational catch

“I was expecting him (Wagner) to score towards deep square leg. But I didn’t expect the ball to come at that pace,” said Jadeja, who claimed two wickets for 22 runs and took two excellent catches in New Zealand’s first innings.

“It came so quickly with the wind and I just stuck my hand out. I didn’t even realise when I took the catch. We bowled well as a unit. We will look to bat well and bowl them out again,” the 31-year-old added.

Shami bowled a bouncer from around the stumps to Wagner, who pulled it in the air towards deep square-leg. Jadeja, who was stationed there but standing well inside the boundary line, leapt in the air and put his left hand out and fortunately for him, the ball stuck as he came tumbling down but managed to hold on to the catch.

Wagner was stunned by what he saw as Jadeja himself looked at the replay of the catch on the big screen, marvelling at his own superhuman effort.

Jadeja’s catch ended a fighting ninth-wicket partnership between Wagner and Kyle Jamieson that helped New Zealand post 235 in thefirst innings.