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It was the catch that changed the men's T20 World Cup 2022. For more than one team.
South Africa needed 47 runs off 29 balls to beat Netherlands in Adelaide, and David Miller - T20's most clinical finisher this year - was nearly set.
He had 17 off 16 when he saw Brandon Glover dig a short ball into the pitch, and took on the pull.
He was slightly late on the shot, and his top edge hung in the air - it seemed like an eternity, but was just a couple of seconds.
"Miller clubs it," Ian Smith said on commentary.
"It's gone up.
Is it going to be safe?"
Smith quickly realized the ball had gone very high, but not very far, and asked:
"Is this the moment?"
Back at ground level, Roelof van der Merwe was scrambling back from short fine-leg to get to it.
"When it went up, I knew I was going to have to do a bit of ground," he recalls, speaking to ESPNcricinfo from his home in the UK.
"Even though everything happens in fast-forward, you still think, 'it's Miller'.
You see the whole game situation in those few seconds."
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He lunged forward, sliding onto his knees, and clung to the ball no more than a meter from the turf.
He flung it away in celebration, then let out his trademark roar with fists clenched.
"What a catch! What a piece of individual brilliance," Smith boomed on commentary.
"Van der Merwe, goodness me! The passport says he's old; his legs say he isn't."
"That was a classic piece of commentary," van der Merwe says, laughing.
"We'd played great cricket up to that point and we were heavily in the game, but if you drop guys like Miller, they can suddenly finish games in two overs.
I was lucky, in a way, that it came to me and I made a lot of ground and it stuck."
He shouldn't even have been playing.
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