Back-pedalling towards the boundary, he pouched the ball, realised his backward momentum would take him over the rope and cleverly threw the ball back in field before jumping out, jumping back in and snaffling the catch at the second attempt.Calum MacLeod The 32-year-old finished third at the World Championships in Doha two years ago to become the first Ecuadorian athlete to win a global medal in a track event. The question is, can he reproduce that type of performance? Noppert wouldn't be the first player to struggle fresh from a landmark win over MVG, and Van der Voort, who overcame Gabriel Clemens in his opener, has seen it all before. Smith's LMA statement after the sacking suggested he felt hard done by.