Ask Jason Bragg. The quick-thinking, big-handed Wellingtonian stunned his friends and some 34,000 other spectators with what seemed to some a clean, one-handed catch during Brendon McCullum's demolition of England.
"It was pretty crazy and I'm still feeling pretty crazy," Mr Bragg said in the stadium afterwards.
He recounted the moments before his brush with fame and fortune.
McCullum, on fire, smashed one of his seven sixes of his record-breaking innings.
"As he hit the ball, I dropped my beer and stood up. It was as big as a beach ball," Mr Bragg said. "I was actually thinking: This is actually coming to me."
He reached back, and according to his friend Andrew Carey, caught the ball without even seeing it.
Mr Bragg said he could feel afterwards on his "enormous mitt" the impact of the ball.
The 40 year-old said the moment reminded him of an earlier catch, frozen in time.
"I still remember at intermediate, silly mid-on, taking a diving catch that eleven other people saw that was monumental at that time," he said.
A Tui employee took Mr Bragg away yesterday afternoon to review footage and determine if he caught the ball as Tui's "Catch a million" contest rules dictated.
Sadly for him, DB Breweries said footage showed a "fumble" and one hand assisting the other.
Mr Bragg hoped there was a chance the beer company would change its views.
"I'm going back to them to seek verification. At the moment it's called a no-catch," Mr Bragg said. "I'm fine about it. That's the way cricket is - but if it was a good catch, there's a little bit riding on it."
He said the footage was reviewed with just one low-resolution camera. But the company, he said, were mostly "pretty good" and had offered him a free trip to the Mangatainoka brewery.
Mr Bragg said if he had won a share of the prize pool - currently at a quarter million dollars but likely to grow, he'd shout his friends a trip to Melbourne for the World Cup final and finish some home renovations he described as of the "DIY rescue" type.
Mr Carey said his mate appeared to get the catch by making a big effort.
"It went over our heads and he just reached up. He caught it without looking. He just kept reaching and grabbed it."
Tui Brewery said Sunjay Ganda and Travis Committie were the only two in the running to share the current prize pool.
The prize pool will balloon if New Zealand progresses through the tournament - ultimately to $1,000,000 if the Black Caps win the cup.