South African-born Keaton Jennings (son of legendary wicketkeeper Ray Jennings) has taken four catches in Sri Lanka’s first innings of the third Test at Colombo.
Jennings needs one more to equal the record for the most catches in a Test innings, which is currently held by 11 players.
KEATON’S CATCHES
| MD Gunathilaka | c Jennings b Leach | 18 |
| FDM Karunaratne | c Jennings b Rashid | 83 |
| DM de Silva | c Jennings b Rashid | 73 |
| ARS Silva | c Jennings b Rashid | 3 |
Jennings only took one catch in the first Test at Galle and one in the second Test at Kandy, where England won by 57 runs, but he did combine in an incredible double act to assist keeper Ben Foakes to dismiss Dimuth Karunaratne. No column for assists in cricket, unfortunately!
What a catch! England pair Keaton Jennings and Ben Foakes combine for an amazing play against Sri Lanka.
It's time cricket introduced catch-assists! pic.twitter.com/MWLTTkrbEx
— Telegraph Sport (@telegraph_sport) November 17, 2018
The secret of Keaton Jennings’ ability to catch flies at short leg… He is actually a lizard #SLvEng pic.twitter.com/bcXOYTUI6I
— Andrew Miller (@miller_cricket) November 17, 2018
| Player | Ct | Team | Opposition | Match Date | Scorecard |
| VY Richardson | 5 | Australia | South Africa | 28 Feb 1936 | |
| Yajurvindra Singh | 5 | India | England | 28 Jan 1977 | |
| M Azharuddin | 5 | India | Pakistan | 15 Nov 1989 | |
| K Srikkanth | 5 | India | Australia | 1 Feb 1992 | |
| SP Fleming | 5 | New Zealand | Zimbabwe | 18 Sep 1997 | |
| GC Smith | 5 | South Africa | Australia | 30 Nov 2012 | |
| DJG Sammy | 5 | West Indies | India | 14 Nov 2013 | |
| DM Bravo | 5 | West Indies | Bangladesh | 5 Sep 2014 | |
| AM Rahane | 5 | India | Sri Lanka | 12 Aug 2015 | |
| J Blackwood | 5 | West Indies | Sri Lanka | 22 Oct 2015 | |
| SPD Smith | 5 | Australia | South Africa | 22 Mar 2018 |
Photo: Stu Forster/Getty Images
