Luck has beaten a cricket fan not once, but twice, as he failed to catch a whooping share in a potential one million dollar prize money at Cricket World Cup matches in Nelson.
However, if former Motueka Senior A cricket player and current timber yard worker Jimmy Carter can hold on to his tickets to the quarterfinals in Wellington, he might get lucky for a third time to grab a one-handed catch in the spectator stands.
Carter dropped a one-handed catch during the Ireland versus West Indies match at Saxton Oval on February 16 and followed that up with another fumble at the game between Bangladesh and Scotland on Thursday, Stuff.co.nz reported.
Carter, who was taking part in the Tui Catch-a-Million competition, said that he had two goes and missed both of them.
If Carter had caught either of the two sixes which came his way, he would have won a share in at least 3,50,000 dollars and potentially one million dollars if New Zealand win the world cup.
The cricket fan said the catch at Thursday's match was the harder of the two, insisting that it sort of went between the advertising signing and the picket fence and he had to lean over the picket fence to get to it.
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Carter insisted that he did well to get to it, adding that he was probably 15-metres away from where it landed. He said that he knows it's worth so much money and that's why there's so much pressure.
Carter also said that it was disappointing to let two chances at big money slip through his fingers, adding that it would have been life-changing if he would have taken that catch.
Carter said that he has played 14 years of Senior A cricket and a bit of rep cricket, adding that it just seems to be failing him at the moment.
Carter is going to the quarterfinal in Wellington on March 21, but said that the ball would have to come straight to him to have a chance at catching a six at Westpac Stadium.
