IND-W vs SA-W | Twitter reacts to Richa's stunned empty gaze after dropped sitter results in injury

07/05/2024

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There's nothing more tragic in sports than an injury and nothing more humiliating in cricket than a dropped sitter, and one can only imagine the double whammy if the two occur together. Richa Ghosh didn't have to use imagination on Friday after she experienced the misfortune against South Africa.

‌A strong performance from their top three propelled South Africa to their third-highest total in WT20Is ever with a score of 189/4 at the end of their allotted overs. Tanzim Brits proved to be the wrecker-in after some late explosives took her score to 81 off just 56 deliveries while Pooja Vastrakar starred with the ball, scalping two wickets at the cost of just 23 runs in her four overs. However, the pacer could have returned an even better haul and ended Brits' heroics early, if things hadn't gone horribly wrong in the 16th over for the Women in Blue.

On the third ball, the opener tried to heave a length ball but managed just a thick top edge that made the ball soar into the night sky. Wicket-keeper Richa Ghosh immediately called for the catch and seemed to have an eternity to position herself under the ball. Yet, as the ball dropped on her, Richa's misjudgement became apparent and the youngster eventually had to put in a desperate mis-timed forward dive. The Kookaburra consequently bounced off her gloves and struck Richa on the neck while she brutally hit the ground flat, her body shaking tumultuously in the impact.

Richa let her face rest on the turf for a while as some teammates converged around her before raising her head with a shocked expression. The physio rushed in soon after and a shaken Richa had to walk off for the rest of the innings, triggering Twitterati to flood social media with their reactions.

Dropped

pic.twitter.com/tmda2vucoo
— Johnson (@Johnson427427) July 5, 2024

The list

List of Players of Indian Women Dropped Catches

[Last 6 WT20I Matches]

Smriti Mandhana

Shafali Verma

Harmanpreet Kaur

Sajeevan Sajana

Titas Sadhu

Pooja Vastrakar

Shreyanka Patil*

Richa Ghosh*#INDvSA #INDWvSAW
— Kishan Kishor (@itskishankishor) July 5, 2024

Again

Lots of injuries for India today

Dayalan Hemalatha going over her ankle

Richa Ghosh getting hit in the throat while dropping a catch#INDvSA
— Mohit Shah (@mohit_shah17) July 5, 2024

Can't catch

Richa Ghosh even with gloves can't catch anything! Munish Bali - fielding coach, please resign.

😠@balimunish13 @mandhana_smriti @RCBTweets @ImHarmanpreet @JemiRodrigues @BCCIWomen @KKRiders @13richaghosh https://t.co/DJ7gKEebjV
— Clifford James (@CliffordCoolCat) July 5, 2024

Lol

Richa Ghosh lol 🤣🤣🤣
— Bumrah is God (@EternalBlizard_) July 5, 2024

Special day

RECORD! 🔥

A special day for Richa Ghosh as she plays her 50th T20I for India.#Mirzapur3 #Samantha #ShubmanGill #JummahMubarak #RashmikaMandanna #AliaBhatt #INDvsSA #Khalistani #AmritpalSingh #NeerajChopra #INDWvsSAW pic.twitter.com/mTWVnRwNtr
— Zafar Iqbal (@zafarlakarmar) July 5, 2024

Impressive SR

Among Indian women who have scored at least 50 runs in T20Is in India, only 2 have a strike rate over 120: Richa Ghosh and Shafali Verma

Richa has exceptional strike rate of 144.7, while Shafali's strike rate is an impressive 133.79#INDvSA
— Mohit Shah (@mohit_shah17) July 4, 2024

Blessed

Amy Jones & Richa Ghosh WKs era. We're blessed as women cricket fans. They're going to end up as all timers when they hang up their boots. Both so good batters as well.

Btw, isn't it the time to put AllRounders against such profiles
— Ahmad Hussain (@Ahmad_Pak_) July 3, 2024

Scored half century