. . . AND HE’S EVEN GOT HIS ‘DAB’ PERFECTED AS WELL!

DAN FALLINS caught the eye with a four-wicket haul against England yesterday, and he certainly celebrated in style. The 21-year-old shone on his first-class debut for Cricket Australia XI in Adelaide with each England wicket being followed by a ‘double dab’ from the bowler (above). Joe Root, Mark Stoneman, Jonny Bairstow and James Vince all saw that at close hand as they made their way back to the pavilion having been dismissed by the leg-spinner. Despite Fallins’s celebration resembling the action West Ham supporters do when they shout ‘Irons’, he isn’t the first sportsperson to ‘dab’. NFL running back Jeremy Hill, of the Cincinnati Bengals, was the first to incorporate the move into a celebration after he scored a touchdown against the Oakland Raiders in September 2015. However, it wasn’t until Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton did likewise against the Seattle Seahawks the following month that it truly took off. Newton is from Atlanta, Georgia and that is where the dab originates from. Its roots come from the Atlanta hip hop scene with rapper Skippa Da Flippa the originator of the move. Georgia-based hip hop group Migos released a song called Look at My Dab on October 30, 2015 as the dance became used in other American sports such as basketball. LeBron James, the current face of the NBA, is one of many stars to have done so. The dab, which looks similar to someone sneezing into the inside of the elbow, soon made its way to Europe with many footballing stars having now adopted the move. Paul Pogba, Mario Balotelli and Romelu Lukaku have all ‘dabbed’ for goal celebrations or for their social media outlets. Pogba and Lukaku’s Manchester United team-mate Jesse Lingard is perhaps the player most known for dabbing. The 24-year-old was even part of a video, alongside club-mates Timothy Fosu-Mensah and Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, teaching them how to dab.