PlayerComparisons
International Vice-Captain
Knott
Don't bring back bad memories. He wasn't popular in NZ when I was a kid.Greg Dyer.?
Yet another stat problem here, Flower's numbers are massively inflated by his bullying of India.Tough. I should say Flower, but he wasn't a great keeper. Sangakkara didn't keep all the time. Gilchrist was both a great batsman and a great keeper but he didn't shoulder the burden those two did. I never saw Knott. Jack Russell was the best gloveman I ever saw, but he was a limited batsman.
I am going to say Flower because he averaged 50+ while keeping for a far weaker side than any of the others even though his glovework wasn't world class.
So apart from the runs he did score, he still scored a lot of runs but not as many as the runs he scored vs his 2 biggest runscoring opponents?Yet another stat problem here, Flower's numbers are massively inflated by his bullying of India.
Minus Bang who were/are a nonsense test side and india, his average drops to a much more human 43.7. That's not bad but it's not part of the whole brigade "well Flower averaged 50".
I'm not putting him down, he was a good batsman in a weak-ish side and an average keeper. there have been far better, athletic keepers than him who are handy with the bat although suffer average wise because they did not have to bat as much.
It was an “informative” postSays nothing.
I appropriately rewarded it with reactionIt was an “informative” post
I'm saying the average of 50 puts him in the absolute upper tier but that's an inflated average due to 2 outliers (please look up statistical outliers and what they mean).So apart from the runs he did score, he still scored a lot of runs but not as many as the runs he scored vs his 2 biggest runscoring opponents?
Gilchrist was already voted as no 1. We are doing no 2. You can change your vote.Gilchrist by a fair distance.