If Haddin was injured, who would you like keeping?

[James90]

Wade - best gloveman in the country.

Not even close to Hartley and Manou at the moment.

 

[morgieb]

Ronchi > Hussey as a batter hey?

WTF? He won't get picked as a keeper.

 

[morgieb]

Have those who've voted for Hussey voted in seriousness?

I don't think you should ever, ever go into a Test, except perhaps (just perhaps) if you know for certain it's just a one-off, with a rank part-time wicketkeeper. You can do it in a ODI where he has to keep for just 50 overs and not often under circumstances that particularly test wicketkeepers, but it's always a recipe for disaster in a Test IMO. We've seen how bad poor-quality "specialists" like Deep Dasgupta, Parthiv Patel, Geraint Jones (for a time), Matthew Prior, Kamran Akmal, etc. can make their team's situation.

An acceptable-quality specialist wicketkeeper who does the job day-and-day-out is one of the basic prerequistites for a Test side IMO. If your #1 wicketkeeper misses more than a one-off Test, I'd always go to domestic cricket's specialists rather than giving the gloves to a competent catcher from the batsmen.

Also think the votes Paine's received are ITSTL. Paine averages 26.44 as a wicketkeeper in his 10 matches, as opposed to 33.25 as a specialist bat in 12. I'm not sure Tasmania aren't wasting a potentially excellent batsman by having him keep wicket, never mind whether he'd do a particularly good job as a Test batsman if keeping wicket.

Well, Australia's best keeper's can't bat.

 

[NUFAN]

WTF? He won't get picked as a keeper.

It's fairly obviously surely what I said, no wtf required.

 

[Richard]

Well, Australia's best keeper's can't bat.

Is he some Perth third-grade wicketkeeper then?

 

[morgieb]

Was referring to Hartley & Manou.
How the hell would I know about random 3rd Graders?

 

[Richard]

Dunno, but I imagine there's probably a better wicketkeeper out there somewhere than Hartley, whose batting isn't good enough to get to state level.

Might not be though, obviously.

 

[GIMH]

Has Hussey kept wicket before or did NUFAN go against the grain and post two irrelevant options?

 

[Richard]

Apparently the only games Hussey has ever kept wicket in have been for Australia A, but I'm sure I remember him being named as the standby for a ODI squad, maybe more than one, before now.

 

[Mister Wright]

Dunno, but I imagine there's probably a better wicketkeeper out there somewhere than Hartley, whose batting isn't good enough to get to state level.

Might not be though, obviously.

Hartley is a very good keeper. Obviously still has a little bit of fine tuning to do against the spinners, but is very, very good down the leg side to the quicks and for a small man has excellent reach.

 

[Richard]

I'm not doubting that, simply saying that it's fairly unlikely the best wicketkeeper in Australia's batting won't be good enough to get him a state place.

Never know though.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Has Hussey kept wicket before or did NUFAN go against the grain and post two irrelevant options?

I can remember him keeping for WA in a few List A games.

 

[inbox24]

I can remember him keeping for WA in a few List A games.

He's done it on this tour of India in one of the practice games.

 

[Richard]

I can remember him keeping for WA in a few List A games.

Either your memory is faulty or CricketArchive is. He's not listed as having kept wicket for either WA first or second XI. Only for Australia A.

I can't remember who WA's third-choice behind Gilchrist and Campbell was when Hussey and Campbell used to open for WA. Possibly whoever it was never played - maybe one of those two played every game post-Zoehrer.

And having looked through a few games I'm reminded what a phenomenal battery of batsmen WA had at the turn of the millennia: Michael Hussey, Campbell, Langer, Katich, Goodwin, Moody, Martyn, North, Gilchrist, Kade Harvey, plus Hogg and Julian in the lower-order... and Angel and Williams to bowl. Quite some side.

 

[Top_Cat]

Either your memory is faulty or CricketArchive is. He's not listed as having kept wicket for either WA first or second XI. Only for Australia A.

I can't remember who WA's third-choice behind Gilchrist and Campbell was when Hussey and Campbell used to open for WA. Possibly whoever it was never played - maybe one of those two played every game post-Zoehrer.

And having looked through a few games I'm reminded what a phenomenal battery of batsmen WA had at the turn of the millennia: Michael Hussey, Campbell, Langer, Katich, Goodwin, Moody, Martyn, North, Gilchrist, Kade Harvey, plus Hogg and Julian in the lower-order... and Angel and Williams to bowl. Quite some side.

Why? Because he belted England's attack once?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Haha Harvey. So crap.

 

[chaminda_00]

Hussey kept in a couple games over the years for WA as backup when Ronchi or Campbell went down. Never kept as first choice.

 

[Richard]

Why? Because he belted England's attack once?

I'd heard of him before then ITBT.

Obviously he was nowhere near as good as the Goodwins and Martyns, but he was a pretty decent player to have in reserve.

 

[Rant0r]

And having looked through a few games I'm reminded what a phenomenal battery of batsmen WA had at the turn of the millennia: Michael Hussey, Campbell, Langer, Katich, Goodwin, Moody, Martyn, North, Gilchrist, Kade Harvey, plus Hogg and Julian in the lower-order... and Angel and Williams to bowl. Quite some side.

don't remind me of the underachieving, did win a few though

back to keeping, from the hilights i seen of the WI tour, ronchi looked very clean, i would love to harness that hitting ability into something a little more sane.

i've heard manou is good, can't really bat for sh1t though, wade might be the dark horse, good raps.

 

[Rant0r]

Haha Harvey. So crap.[/QUOTE

wasn't he the leading domestic one day wicket-taker at one stage ?

Kade Harvey 103 wickets @ 27.13
Stuart MacGill 124 wickets @ 21.83