Champions Trophy 2017: Drop catches report

Azhar Ali, you dropped the Champions Trophy 2017. Said, everyone, when he dropped a sitter at first slip and that was the catch of Virat Kohli but the Indian captain edged the very next ball to the backward point fielder to return to the pavilion. The Champions Trophy was indeed dropped but the culprit was Sri Lanka’s Thisara Perera as he grassed Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed when they needed 44 runs to qualify for the semi-final with only three wickets in hand.

Following the drop, Pakistan didn’t look back an inch and turned out to be a brute force in the semis and finals as they took 20 wickets at 18.45 runs in the knockout games and scored 596 runs after the drop in the tournament at an average of 99.33.

The standards of catching weren’t as high as one would expect during the 8th edition of the tournament with many as 32 chances slipped across the 15 games. A total of 122 catches were recorded in the CT 2017, meant 20.77 percentages of catching opportunities including half-chances were failed to be grabbed.

India and Pakistan, who qualified for the finals, spilled 7 chances each in the tournament; the most by any side. Bangladesh were the only team that didn’t drop a single catch as they grabbed all the 6 catching chances they created in the 4 games.

While Sri Lanka managed to convert only 71% of the opportunities they received which is the lowest for any side but they were the beneficiaries as well as only 63% of the chances they gave while batting were caught by the oppositions.

Drop catches report for each team: (While fielding)

Drop catches report for each team: (While batting)

Talking about individuals, Virat Kohli was the luckiest batsman in the tournament as 3 of the catching opportunities he gave were grassed by the fielder and he scored an unbeaten fifties in two of those games while he failed to last more than one ball in the final.

Most catches dropped off a batsman:

The unluckiest bowler in the tournament was Hardik Pandya as he put down 2 catching chances of his bowling while three other catches were put down as well. Lasith Malinga also witnessed 4 of chances he produced going down off his bowling including 3 in the big game vs Pakistan, which if grabbed would’ve changed the outcome of the game.

Most catches dropped off a bowler:

Most catches dropped by a fielder: