England vs India 2018: Four catches dropped by Indian fielders in the first Test

Shikhar Dhawan

England & India Net Sessions

This is easily the costliest drop of the match. When the Indian bowlers were going all guns blazing, Sam Curran and Adil Rashid threatened to take the game away from India by building on a small partnership. They put on 42 runs for the eighth wicket but it should have been just 20 as Sam Curran was dropped on 13 by Shikhar Dhawan off the bowling of Mohammed Shami.

Shami managed to get the bottom edge of the bat and the ball went straight to Dhawan. It was a bit low but the southpaw got his fingers on the ball and let the ball go through him. To be fair to Dhawan, it was a tough chance as the ball took the bottom edge and the fielder had less time to react.

To make things worse for India, Curran got a boundary off that ball and went on to score 63 crucial runs for his team, exactly 50 more than what he should have scored had Dhawan caught the catch.