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Marsh One-Day Cup: WA captain Mitch Marsh falls to catch of the summer by Tasmanian Caleb Jewell

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Caleb Jewell takes a stunner to dismiss Mitch Marsh.
Camera IconCaleb Jewell takes a stunner to dismiss Mitch Marsh.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Caleb Jewell.

It was always going to take something special to get rid of Mitch Marsh in the mood he was in, and that’s exactly what Jewell produced.

The Tasmania hung onto arguably the catch of the summer to give his team a much-needed breakthrough in their high-stakes Marsh One-Day Cup clash against WA at the WACA Ground.

Fielding at backward point, Jewell flew to his left with a perfectly-timed jump before sticking out the left hand and plucking the ball out of mid-air.

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It ended a brilliant 99-run third-wicket partnership between Marsh (63 off 48 balls) and opener Sam Whiteman, with the score at 3-128 in the 19th over.

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Even Jewell was stunned he managed to reel in the near-impossible catch off spinner Tom Andrews’ bowling, just as Marsh was beginning to take the game away from the Tigers’ hands.

The WA captain should consider himself extremely unlucky after middling his reserve sweep which looked like being the ninth boundary of his destructive knock.

Both WA and Tasmania need to win with a bonus point to guarantee their spot in the domestic 50-over final against New South Wales on April 11.

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