IPL 2016: Five things that stood out

#5 Juggling of catches in the boundary line

Shane-Watson and David-Wiese combined to pull off a stunner

Cricket purists have never liked the T20 format of cricket. For them, test cricket is real cricket and some purists even do not consider T20 format as cricket. But even the biggest critic of T20 format will agree to the fact that this format has improved the fielding standards of players.

While One Day cricket ensured that diving to stop runs becomes a norm, T20 cricket, and IPL, in particular, has taken fielding to the next level. Take this year's IPL for instance and we have seen more than one instance of juggling of catches in the boundary line.

In certain cases the one player has himself juggled the catch and on certain others we have seen the juggling being done among two players. Shane Watson & David Wiese, Suresh Raina & Andre Russel, Chris Lynn are few players who performed this once unthinkable feat during fielding at the boundary line.

If this trend continues, then juggling of catches at the boundary line might become a norm very soon just as diving & sliding are a common sight today.