worst fielder ever"

[Pup Clarke]

Though some of his "attempts" in 2001\02 were even worse.

Think it was 02/03 tbh, might be wrong though.

 

[Richard]

Mark my words, he dropped a couple in India and New Zealand in 2001\02 that beggared belief.

Don't actually recall him dropping anything of note in Australia in 2002\03.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Don't actually recall him dropping anything of note in Australia in 2002\03.

Oh dear...

 

[Richard]

Remind me.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Matthew Hayden skied one to deep extra cover at Brisbane and Vaughan spilled an absolute dolly off Craig White.

 

[Richard]

Was thinking it had to be Hayden in said Test, trouble is he was dropped about 4 times that innings, so most of them are just a blurry blur.

 

[SJS]

Deepdas Gupta? Has only ever been spelled Deep Dasgupta where I've seen. Are there two alternative spellings?

You are right. My mistake. Dasgupta is a Bengali surname while Gupta is a North Indian surname. Deep Dasgupta is a Bengali.

 

[SJS]

There was a chap named Durani who played for India in the 60's/early 70's who had a reputation for not fielding hardly at all unless he was required to bowl. It was a reputation first given to him by Ted Dexter so it might have been dressed up a little. (In those days you could bowl a spell and then leave the field "injured" and there were no rules preventing it or any stipulation saying you couldn't come back and bowl again straight away.)

I too thought of Durrani but he wasn't really a poor fielder just terribly lazy. He was a brilliant close in fielder but he was easily the most laid back cricketer India has ever produced. Ganguly is brimming with energy as compared to Durrani if he wasn't in the mood.

 

[sunilreddy]

Here is a great Indian Fielding side

1. Navjot Siddhu
2. Deep Dasgupta (keeper)
3. Saurav Ganguly
4. Vacancy 1
5. Vacancy 2
6. Vacancy 3
7. Mahajkumar of Vijayanagram (captain)
8. Ashish Nehra
9. Romesh Powar
10. Munaf Patel
11. Chandrashekhar

Nominations for the three vacancies please

Abey Kuruvilla

 

[SJS]

Abey Kuruvilla

We need batsmen. Our pace bowlers Nehra and Munaf can teach Abbey a thing or two about bad fielding .

But yes Kuruvilla was quite bad.

 

[Evermind]

Bert Ironmonger

Not sure about skills, but he's definitely the fielder with the weirdest last name.

 

[Richard]

Mark my words, he was awful - bad enough when you make your Test debut at 46, but when you were never any good ITFP it's worse.

Could bowl, though - and how.

 

[Mister Wright]

Are we sure it was Vaughan that dropped Hayden? I remember Vaughan misfielding in the first over, but pretty sure it was Hoggard that dropped Hayden.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Hoggard dropped one at mid off in that innings but I'm sure Vaughan dropped an even easier chance at deep cover.

 

[anoop4real]

We need batsmen. Our pace bowlers Nehra and Munaf can teach Abbey a thing or two about bad fielding .

But yes Kuruvilla was quite bad.

Robin Singh!!!

 

[Richard]

Are we sure it was Vaughan that dropped Hayden? I remember Vaughan misfielding in the first over, but pretty sure it was Hoggard that dropped Hayden.

He was missed at least 3 times, so there's a decent amount of scope.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Bit of a dig, but Saeed Ajmal is holding his hands up (and failing to take the chances offered) here big time.