Watch: Cummins defies gravity in stunning catch: 'Effort of the highest class'

On a time erstwhile bowlers dominated and the lucifer hung successful tense balance, Pat Cummins lit up the 2nd Test betwixt Australia and West Indies with 1 of the astir breathtaking caught-and-bowled dismissals successful caller memory. The Australian captain's stunning effort to region Keacy Carty was described by commentators arsenic "an diversion effort of the highest class" and volition surely beryllium replayed for years to come.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!It happened successful a flash. Cummins bowled a bully magnitude transportation that jagged backmost into Carty, who prodded guardant with bat distant from pad. The shot took a heavy wrong borderline and ballooned successful the air, seemingly destined to onshore safely successful the bare abstraction adjacent quadrate mid-wicket.

But Cummins wasn’t having it.

Sprinting crossed to his right, the 32-year-old pacer flung himself forward, stretching retired his close manus to pluck the shot conscionable inches supra the turf. It was a infinitesimal of axenic athleticism and instinct. Third umpire Nitin Menon took a little look earlier confirming the dismissal: Keacy Carty c and b Cummins 6 (12).WATCH:

"It's a superb catch. Absolutely terrific from the Australian captain," exclaimed 1 commentator.

"It is an diversion effort of the highest class."The drawback capped a coagulated bowling effort that restricted West Indies to 253 successful their archetypal innings, with Nathan Lyon being the prime of the bowlers with 3/75. Brandon King led the West Indies absorption with a stroke-filled 75 disconnected 108 balls.

Australia ended the time connected 12 for two, having mislaid some openers - Sam Konstas and Usman Khawaja - aboriginal to Jayden Seales. With a constrictive pb of 45 and 8 wickets successful hand, Cummins’ magic infinitesimal mightiness beryllium pivotal successful a Test that remains delicately poised heading into Day 3.