INSANE! Buttler pulls in an all-timer behind the stumps! #Ashes pic.twitter.com/v96UgK42ce
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 16, 2021
However, things have a way to balance when a person is on a high. While commentators were still talking about Buttler's catch, Marnus Labuschagne gave him another chance to grab a second stunner of the day.
Labuschagne tried to play the ball to the fine leg but got a top edge which went towards the left of Buttler, who jumped but couldn't hold on to the ball. It was a tough chance but one could expect Buttler to take that one.
Off the glove and put down! Marnus gets a life on 21 #Ashes pic.twitter.com/rfzYpB96jG
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 16, 2021
In the final session of the day, Labuschagne, who was given a life on 21, was playing on 95. England had taken the new ball and were getting a bit of movement. James Anderson bowled a back of the length delivery that moved a little and got the edge off Labuschagne's bat.
Buttler didn't need to move and it was a catch that he could have taken with his eyes closed but he dropped it. Neither Buttler nor the viewers could understand how England's best wicketkeeper managed to pull off a stunner and drop a sitter on the same day.
An absolute sitter hits the deck as Labuschagne gets another life #Ashes pic.twitter.com/QI3bDaIRRO
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 16, 2021
