Brendon McCullum

[Athlai]

Dhoni isn't as good as Jayawardene in terms of keeping.

 

[Smith]

Dhoni isn't as good as Jayawardene in terms of keeping.

No and probably McCullum too is not. But they make up for that with their batting.

 

[Athlai]

Na reckon McCullum is better than Jayawardene comfortably.

 

[wfdu_ben91]

Hughes's average is so high because of one reason.

1.He has played most of his cricket against weak bowling, except for his test series debut of course.

Wait till he has played 10-15 test matches, that average will drop.

Weak bowling? His played a handful of games in England and apart from that, he averaged over 60 in Aussie domestic cricket against bowlers who would walk into some teams in the world.

Hughes is the sort've batsman who can make runs in the most difficult conditions, against the best bowlers in the world and he also knows how to seriously cash-in against weak opposition. Hence his massive average.

 

[Smith]

Na reckon McCullum is better than Jayawardene comfortably.

Nope. McCullum has hardly kept to M & M type bowlers on minefields. He is a good catcher, but not a great stumper imo. While Jaya is. Yet to see him grassing an easy one really.

 

[Athlai]

Nope. McCullum has hardly kept to M & M type bowlers on minefields. He is a good catcher, but not a great stumper imo. While Jaya is. Yet to see him grassing an easy one really.

McCullum is probably the most canny stumper in world cricket mate. Some of his stumpings have been absolutely magical. McCullum has kept to Mendis anyway.

 

[Smith]

McCullum is probably the most canny stumper in world cricket mate. Some of his stumpings have been absolutely magical. McCullum has kept to Mendis anyway.

Has he?

 

[Athlai]

Has he?

Kolkata Knight Rider

 

[PhoenixFire]

McCullum is possibly the best out-fielder I've seen, probably on a par with Symonds.

 

[Smith]

Kolkata Knight Rider

Was not the first choice wk.

 

[Uppercut]

McCullum is possibly the best out-fielder I've seen, probably on a par with Symonds.

Seen him drop a few catches tbh. Dropped a particularly bad one (that ended up costing the Kiwis) off Broad in the tests in England last year.

 

[PhoenixFire]

I'm not catergorically stating that McCullum is or isn't the best in the world, just from what I have seen, he has been the most impressive.

 

[Uppercut]

Yeah, i'm not categorically stating that he isn't, I'm just disagreeing.

 

[PhoenixFire]

I didn't catergorically say that you catergorically said he wasn't.

I'll shut up now......

 

[King Pietersen]

Can't say I agree either. I'd rank Gibbs, De Villiers, Symonds and Collingwood ahead of McCullum from what I've seen. McCullum has been very good in the field in this competition though, been electric for NZ.

 

[Howsie]

Yeah McCullum is probaly one of the best fielders in the world. Too bad he is also the best keeper so he can't do both.

 

[Richard]

Since Gilly's arrival on the stage, people assume every WK can bat like a bastard but it's a tough job.

I don't think they do really. Gilchrist is exceptionally unlikely ever to be matched, never mind bettered. And I'd hope most people realise that. Even the likes of Alec Stewart, Denis Lindsay, Les Ames, Jeff Dujon (genuine Test-class batsmen and good wicketkeepers) are an extreme rarity.

 

[Richard]

Na reckon McCullum is better than Jayawardene comfortably.

If he is better - and that's certainly not impossible - it's not a comfortably case.

McCullum still makes the odd too many ridiculous error for my liking. He's quite the Jack Russell. For all his regular brilliance, he makes occasional basic errors that you just cannot excuse.

 

[Athlai]

If he is better - and that's certainly not impossible - it's not a comfortably case.

McCullum still makes the odd too many ridiculous error for my liking. He's quite the Jack Russell. For all his regular brilliance, he makes occasional basic errors that you just cannot excuse.

Reckon too much is made of his basic errors, certainly I've seen Jayawadene put down just as many as Baz.

 

[Richard]

Weak bowling? His played a handful of games in England and apart from that, he averaged over 60 in Aussie domestic cricket against bowlers who would walk into some teams in the world.

Brett Geeves, Ben Drew, Jason Krejza, Chris Swan, Chris Simpson, Daniel Christian, Daniel Cullen?

No.

Unless by "some teams in the world" you mean various English club second XIs, because those are the only types such bowlers would be good enough to walk into.