Cricket fan gets hands on $50k prize money after swiping catch in T20

AUCKLAND: Fortune smiled on an eager cricket fan during the T20 International between New Zealand and Australia when he swiped a dazzling one-handed crowd catch, at Eden Park Friday.

Mitchell Grimstone, an inhabitant of Auckland and a student of accounting major at Victoria University in Wellington, bagged NZ$50,000 after snitching a stunning catch from the crowd, donned in an orange shirt.

Cricket enthusiasts were challenged to lift a one-handed catch from the crowd, clad in the orange shirts provided to get their hands on the prize money.

Talking to international media, Grimstone revealed: “It all happened in a blur; I saw it and I thought, I'm a chance here and then popped out my hand."

Grimstone was attending the T20 match along with his friends who were seen getting markedly ecstatic at their friend’s feat.

In an off the cuff press conference immediately after the match, Grimestone expressed his gratefulness for throwing on the bright orange shirt instead of his never-failing New Zealand one-day shirt with his champion cricketer Brendon McCullum’s name on the back.

Grimestone became the second person to sack the $50K after another cricket buff named Craig Dougherty pinched a catch last month at University Oval during the New Zealand-Pakistan ODI.