Crowd Cheers as Cameraman Helps Find Missing Ball at India-South Africa Cricket Match - Video

New Delhi (Sputnik): The first cricket test match between India and South Africa was held up for a significant time on the second day, as the bowlers failed to locate the missing ball that had stowed away in the boundary ropes to be later discovered by a witty cameraman.

The scene at the test match, played in the Indian city of Visakhapatnam, turned melodramatic as the ball raced for four runs through India's all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja's bat.

Commentators and crowd members guffawed as the perplexed South African fielders and ground staff struggled to spot the ball. They searched resultlessly under the rain-covers.

Eventually, a cameraman came to the rescue of the South African team; he zoomed in on the ball and projected its image on the giant LED screen, revealing its location, lodged between two wedges of boundary padding.

The discovery led to a wave of gleeful cheers from the anticipating crowd at the stadium.

SMG feat... pic.twitter.com/2XttnDtbEm

— Camerabazi (@camerabazi) October 3, 2019

Netizens were thrilled to watch the comic scene and took to Twitter with hilarious responses.

Fielders were like pic.twitter.com/Bl9A9xq5lA

— Joe (@joemonkishor) October 3, 2019

Yeah it's stuck in the barrier just pretend it's gone missing so I can get my breath back

— Billy Bamber (@billy_bamber_95) October 3, 2019

pic.twitter.com/SpTUr0FfFL

— Todd (@MrCTodd) October 3, 2019

Ball to South African players 😂 pic.twitter.com/BU2ABmpAcq

— Sneha🇮🇳 (@Shinde25sneha) October 3, 2019

South Africa trails by 349 on the third day of the test match, having reached 153/4 at the end of the first session of Friday’s play.