5 best catches in Test cricket

4 Jonty Rhodes v India, Ahmedabad, 1996

Former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes was perhaps the first fielder in cricket history who turned fielding into a spectacle for cricket fans and that was due to the truly incredible feats of fielding that he could pull off in virtually every game.

In Test cricket, he took one of the best ever catches in the 1st Test of the Test series against India in 1996, when he pulled off a stunner to send back Sachin Tendulkar to the pavilion on the 1st day.

Tendulkar had stepped out to off-spinner Pat Symcox and hit an on drive very hard towards short mid-wicket. Under normal circumstances, it would have gone to the boundary in a hurry but Rhodes was standing at short mid-wicket and he flung himself forward, as the ball was getting away from him to complete the catch two-handed.

The catch needed incredible reflexes, anticipation and intuition on the part of Rhodes, and he possessed each one of those attributes in abundance.