Wicketkeeping standards

[JBMAC]

How many people discussing here have kept wickets at a decent level and/or been coached on it ??

I must clarify why I am asking this. Wicket keeping is the least understood of cricket's discipline by the lay fan. Almost everone knows a bit about batting and quite a few people know a bot about bowling. Not many do about keeping. In fact, even top international cricketers do not which is why it is the most difficult of the cricketing crafts to be appreciated with any degree of understanding.

Stats, which is everyone's refuge, mislead in many things but no where more than they do in wicket keeping.

Club, State and Country

 

[kyear2]

Wow JB, thats pretty impressive. Care to expand?

Also going from memory here, but If I recall correctly you rate Tallon the best you have seen?

 

[Red]

Club, State and Country

Going on his location (Qld) and age (saw Bradman etc), and what he said above...JBMAC MUST BE WALLY GROUT. AmIRight?

 

[kyear2]

Think Grout is dead, so probably not. Think JB said that he faced Wes Hall and he was very young in '48 when he saw Bradman. does that help narrow it down?

 

[Red]

Think Grout is dead, so probably not. Think JB said that he faced Wes Hall and he was very young in '48 when he saw Bradman. does that help narrow it down?

Yeh.


Grout is dead, but it was the only name that I çould come up with from Qld. Unless he used to live in another state. A lot of old guys move to Qld...

 

[Dan]

Going on his location (Qld) and age (saw Bradman etc), and what he said above...JBMAC MUST BE WALLY GROUT. AmIRight?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maclean_(cricketer)

 

[kyear2]

Rodney Marsh?

 

[thierry henry]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maclean_(cricketer)

2 years old when he saw Bradman?

 

[Burgey]

John Maclean I reckon

 

[Burgey]

JB also said he saw Bradman play in the 50s in a testimonial match.

 

[uvelocity]

Yeh.


Grout is dead, but it was the only name that I çould come up with from Qld. Unless he used to live in another state. A lot of clever guys move to Qld...

efa

 

[fredfertang]

I think JB has told us he was at the Gabba for the 36/37, series, albeit as a babe in arms

 

[Burgey]

Was 46-47 iirc. I recall joking with him about the Ikin bump ball.

 

[fredfertang]

Was 46-47 iirc. I recall joking with him about the Ikin bump ball.

Didn't he say that was the first Test he watched, as opposed to the first he was present at?

 

[Burgey]

Could be. Was a while ago tbf

 

[Burgey]

The conversation I mean. Though so were those tests

 

[Burgey]

Perhaps Barry Jarman. Though tbf I'm just plucking names here!

 

[smash84]

I think JB has told us he was at the Gabba for the 36/37, series, albeit as a babe in arms

yeah....I recall this

 

[Red]

John Maclean I reckon

Fantastic if right. Great to have a test player posting here.

 

[thierry henry]

I think JB has told us he was at the Gabba for the 36/37, series, albeit as a babe in arms

Yeah I recall him being at least 70 tbh.

Jarman?

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