Mark Waugh is considered one of the sharpest fielders in cricket, often ranked among the top even in the modern age of electric dives and uber-athletic bodies. And if there are those who haven't seen some of his best slip catches or run-outs of the 1990s (or on YouTube), they got to enjoy what is close to his vintage best when he recreated Josh Inglis' run-out of Ben Stokes from the first day of the day-night Brisbane Ashes Test.
Ahead of the start of day two, broadcaster Mark Howard asked co-commentators Waugh and Michael Vaughan if they could try to recreate Inglis' run-out on camera. They got two tries each.
Taking advantage of a calling mix-up between Stokes and Joe Root, the non-striker, Inglis picked up the ball at cover with his right hand and threw it back to the striker's end with only one stump in his side-on view.
David Warner role-played Stokes in the challenge, rolling the ball towards cover, where Waugh picked it up one-handed and threw it with one stump to aim at, like Inglis.
After hitting it, the 60-year-old Waugh celebrated his hit like it was in a Test match, which was understandable given how much he has been teased by his colleagues about previous misfields as a TV expert.
One of those that he dropped came during a masterclass in 2023. Explaining what the Pakistan slip fielders had been doing wrong in that Melbourne Test, Waugh, urged by Vaughan to show the viewers a low diving effort, lunged to his right, but missed the ball, leading to plenty of ribbing from the other commentators.
This time in Brisbane, Waugh was insouciance itself when asked by Howard to explain the run-out: "What do you mean? Easy," he crowed. Vaughan ended up missing both his attempts.