Cricketweb decides the best fielder ever

[G.I.Joe]

Another contest. I'm stealing your thunder, mr_mister

Not meant to be a strict taxonomical exercise*, so we're not going to moan about slip fielders and outfielders sharing the field here (apologies for the low quality pun).

10 nominations per person. Players nominated thrice get in. 32 players should be a good number, I reckon.

*Exception - Wicketkeepers are not eligible. They're an entirely different breed with arguably greater opportunities to display their skills than other fielders. Fielders who have kept wicket occasionally will be judged on their fielding at other positions. Please refrain from insisting on nominating regular wicketkeepers who may have fielded at other positions on occasion. That's not a loophole; just a silly point (better pun).

 

[Coronis]

Dave Warner
Mark Waugh
Jonty Rhodes

I'll think of more later.

 

[a massive zebra]

EM Grace
Gilbert Jessop
Learie Constantine
Bobby Simpson
Colin Bland
Eknath Solkar
Derek Randall
Roger Harper
Jonty Rhodes
Tillakaratne Dilshan

 

[kyear2]

Garry Sobers
Viv Richards
Greg Chappell
Ricky Ponting
Mark Waugh
A.B. de Villiers
Clive Lloyd
Jhonty Rhodes
Herchelle Gibbs

 

[J_C]

Ponting
Symonds
M Waugh
Harper
Rhodes
Gibbs
Azhar
Kapil

 

[Athlai]

Nominate Munaf Patel

 

[jaideep]

Jonty Rhodes
Ricky Ponting
Andy Symonds
Brian Lara
Eknath Solkar
Bob Simpson
Herschelle Gibbs
Mark Waugh
Roger Harper
Paul Collingood

 

[Camo999]

Very interesting. And very difficult to know how to rate specialists like David Boon and Mark Taylor who were among the best at short leg and slip respectively - critical positions - but not necessarily highly athletic 'all-round' type fielders.

Chris Jordan
Learie Constantine
Garry Sobers
Viv Richards
Jonty Rhodes
Ricky Ponting
Andrew Symonds
Tillekeratne Dilshan
AB De Villiers
Eknath Solkar

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Colin Bland
Jonty Rhodes
Punter
Bob Simpson
Roger Harper
Andrew Symonds
Sobers
Clive Lloyd
Eknath Solkar
Learie Constantine

 

[viriya]

Roshan Mahanama
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Jonty Rhodes
Herschelle Gibbs
Ricky Ponting
Paul Collingwood
AB de Villiers
Kane Williamson
Steven Smith
Michael Hussey
Martin Guptill

 

[Noble One]

J. Rhodes
R. Ponting
A. Symonds
M. Waugh
AB de Villiers
P. Collingwood
R. Harper
D. Leverock
H. Gibbs
A. Border

 

[a massive zebra]

D. Leverock

 

[ImpatientLime]

Chris Jordan

yeah he's not out of place at all here, an absolute freak in the field.

****e at everything else mind. easily the worst player in this thread so far.

jonty was painfully average with the bat though and look how fondly he's remembered.

bland
harper
ponting
symonds
rhodes
ABDV
gibbs
viv
mark waugh
trescothick (because no one else will mention him, the most underrated slipper of them all)

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Eknath Solkar
Chris Harris
Jonty
Gibbs
Colin Bland
Roger Harper
Bobby Simpson
ABDV
Mark Waugh
Ponting
Guptill

 

[zaremba]

On the subs bench:

Trevor Penney
Peter Cantrell
Gary Pratt

 

[JTemperance]

Ricky Ponting
Mark Waugh
Andrew Symonds
Paul Collingwood
AB de Villiers
Herschelle Gibbs
Jacques Kallis
Ajinkya Rahane
Kieron Pollard
Glenn Maxwell

 

[Furball]

I'm actually amazed no-one's nominated Michael Clarke yet. He was an incredible fielder in his younger days.

Ponting
ABdV
Symonds
Clarke
Herschelle Gibbs
James Anderson (reckon he's the best fielder out of any fast bowler I've seen)
Flintoff (brilliant at slip, rocket arm from the outfield)
Guptill

Will have a think about the other 2.

 

[ImpatientLime]

flintoff put down too many at slip. so overrated in the cordon. sound all rounder though (in the field that is).

can't believe i forgot trevor penney. he was immaculate.

 

[Gnske]

Ian Bell

 

[cnerd123]

Rhodes
Solkar
ABDV
Symonds
Ponting
Colin Bland
Sobers
Warner
Collingwood
Harper