jammay123
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like the sangakarra situation maybe they think they can get more from him if he dosent have the burden of wicket keeping
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Admittedly I haven't seen a great deal of van Wyk, but on what I have seen I'd rather have McCullum keeping.
Richard
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At least Prasanna Jayawardene is as good at wicketkeeping as Sangakkara is - if Edmunds is to be believed, McCullum > Hopkins as a wicketkeeper.
All the same, though, it seems Hopkins had to play this game, whether McCullum played as well or not (and consensus so far seems to be that he shouldn't have).
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Hopkins isn't even seen as the best gloveman in Auckland judging by the way that team looked during the last NZ summer - Reece Young usually did the keeping and Hopkins was bizarrely included as a specialist bat.
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What's worse is that it happened to Martin, one of the hardest working and genuine 'team-player' in the squad. One can only hope he's gets back into some form.
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Lately perhaps. Jayawardene was actually quite poor for a while though and Sangakkara was clearly the better of the two despite Jayawardene donning the gloves.
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Yeah, absolutely. Jayawardene has really improved the last year or so.
Just like Sangakkara did between 2000 and 2002, indeed. When he first took the gloves from Kaluwitharana it was stupid, he was a shocking wicketkeeper. No-one could fathom why Kaluwitharana didn't play in the SL-England Tests in 2000/01. But by the time he came to England in 2002, he was exemplary.
Funniest thing is, Kaluwitharana had come to England in 1998 with the 18-year-old Jayawardene as his deputy. Sangakkara wasn't anywhere to be seen, as batsman or wicketkeeper (if he was even keeping in those days). He didn't appear until Ranatunga was on his way out.
I still wish Sangakkara had never taken the gloves though. We'll just never know what might have happened with his batting had he not done so.
Just like Sangakkara did between 2000 and 2002, indeed. When he first took the gloves from Kaluwitharana it was stupid, he was a shocking wicketkeeper. No-one could fathom why Kaluwitharana didn't play in the SL-England Tests in 2000/01. But by the time he came to England in 2002, he was exemplary.
Funniest thing is, Kaluwitharana had come to England in 1998 with the 18-year-old Jayawardene as his deputy. Sangakkara wasn't anywhere to be seen, as batsman or wicketkeeper (if he was even keeping in those days). He didn't appear until Ranatunga was on his way out.
I still wish Sangakkara had never taken the gloves though. We'll just never know what might have happened with his batting had he not done so.
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It's amazing how much Sangakkara's batting improved when he stopped keeping.
With McCullum though I don't think it'd happen - he looks at home behind the stumps but in the field he looks like he doesn't know what to do with his hands. And looking at the footage they showed, it seems he's doing a lot of work on slip catches that he could be spending on his batting.
With McCullum though I don't think it'd happen - he looks at home behind the stumps but in the field he looks like he doesn't know what to do with his hands. And looking at the footage they showed, it seems he's doing a lot of work on slip catches that he could be spending on his batting.
Richard
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Thing is though - and this is what frustrates me - that he's not had two phases, one where he kept and one where he didn't. He didn't keep early on, then he did, then he didn't, then he did, and now currently he isn't again.
I wish he'd never been given the gloves, then we'd have known for sure exactly how good he would or wouldn't have been had he never had to worry about it.
Odd thing is, he much, much prefers to keep than not keep.
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Have nothing atm. What happened?
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One dropped catch, nothing much else.
Richard
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McCullum dropped Broad in the 3rd over, now these two are dawdling along doing sod-all. Boring stuff.
And Broad has just been told-off for advertising a logo he's not allowed.