An aerial effort by Ireland captain William Porterfield during their T20 World Cup Qualifying campaign match against Hong Kong is the latest choice of Rodney Smythe.

In the T20 World Cup qualifier at Malahide I decided that there were enough other photographers present to provide the website lots of images, and that I was going to try to get a picture of a mid air catch.

Ireland were in the field first, and I decided that if anyone was going to make a spectacular dive it was going to be William Porterfield.

It was fairly early in the innings when William launched himself at one, so I didn't end up with hundreds of pics of him doing nothing!

Unfortunately, for me and the team he didn't manage to hold on to the catch - the best laid plans of mice and men …