India, Feb. 19 -- Glenn Phillips and flying catches is a match made in heaven, or we should perhaps say, on the cricket field. The New Zealand cricketer has made acrobatic catches at backward point as regular as traffic jams in Bengaluru on Monday evening. He wakes up, stands at backward point, waits for the batter to cut a ball from the middle of his bat, flies to either his left or right (yes, he is equally good on both sides) and sticks his hand out to pluck the ball out of thin air. That's it, simple! Oh, he doesn't forget to stand still and pose with a sly expression as if he always knew. He perhaps does.

In the Champions Trophy opener between Pakistan and New Zealand in Karachi, Phillips flew to his left to grab a one-handed stunne...