I was playing for Hawkesbury v Penrith (1st grade 1986/87), Rod Bower had smacked us around all day, and was on 200, and looking to move past the current club record score of 202. At this stage we had been fielding for 4 sessions and were cooked, so the captain brought on Barry Coad to bowl his useful left arm wrist spin. The field was spread far and wide, then Barry bowling his third delivery had Rod coming down the wicket and hitting a hard on drive in the air to deep long on. Rod had hit it hard, and quite straight, so the fielder had to run quite a distance to his left to get anywhere near it. As the ball got closer to the fence (in the air still), the fielder thought they were closer than they thought, so they should put in and then gave it a big soccer goalie dive. To everyone’s amazement, the ball lodged in the right inverted hand of the fielder, one inch off the ground, and Rod was caught for 200.
As Rod walked past the fielder, he was heard to say, “how the #@%$ did you catch that?”, to which the fielder said “#@%$ed if I know”.
Rod and I have never spoken about it since.