CW's Ranking of WicketKeeper-Batsmen (Tests)

[Fuller Pilch]

Sanga, Marsh, QDK, Flower, De Villiers, Boucher, Dujon, Pant, Mccullum, Haddin, Parore , Kirmani, More, Mongia, Saha, Kalu, Prasanna, Dick, Moin Khan, Latif, Rizwan, Sarfaraz, Walcott, Kanhai, Jacobs, Ramdin, Murray, Steward, Evans, Prior, Russell, Bairstow, Dave Richardson, Brendan Taylor, Taibu, Rahim, Litton

Just made a shortlist for myself to choose from.

If that's a shortlist, I'd hate to see the long list!
Just kidding. Excellent list.

 

[Burgey]

Rod Marsh

 

[CricAddict]

What are his credentials?

Corrected

 

[CricAddict]

If that's a shortlist, I'd hate to see the long list!
Just kidding. Excellent list.

Ha ha, yes it is just a list and not shortlist. Semantics.

Thanks for appreciation.

 

[Nikhil99.99]

Bert oldfield

 

[Lillian Thomson]

No votes for over a week.
Currently dormant voting stands at:
Marsh 4
Sanga 4
QDK 1
Flower 1
Lindsay 1
Oldfield 1
Not sure how many of those were spoof votes. 8 are fairly dodgy.

 

[TheJediBrah]

No votes for over a week.
Currently dormant voting stands at:
Marsh 4
Sanga 4
QDK 1
Flower 1
Lindsay 1
Oldfield 1
Not sure how many of those were spoof votes. 8 are fairly dodgy.

Flower must have been for sure

 

[The Sean]

Rod Marsh

 

[_00_deathscar]

Since the batting part of it is important (and he’s grown as a keeper too), I wonder at what point Pant will come in?

 

[ataraxia]

I think the chance of Pant's career ending up meh is fairly high tbh; too early to judge.

But then again, a Sarfaraz is probably going to end up in a surprisingly high spot on the list (if he's remembered) -- the change in perception to wicketkeepers being batters first means that current/recent players are going to be well rated.

Pant will end up around or just below Engineer and Dhoni.

wait they've both already got in? maybe indian bias is real...

 

[Himannv]

Denis Lindsay

 

[_00_deathscar]

I think the chance of Pant's career ending up meh is fairly high tbh; too early to judge.

But then again, a Sarfaraz is probably going to end up in a surprisingly high spot on the list (if he's remembered) -- the change in perception to wicketkeepers being batters first means that current/recent players are going to be well rated.

Pant will end up around or just below Engineer and Dhoni.

wait they've both already got in? maybe indian bias is real...

I would take Pant over Dhoni right now. Dude is just a better bat, and while not as good a keep, he's learning.
Dhoni's captaincy is not needed for tests either so...

 

[TheJediBrah]

I wonder at what point Pant will come in?

Usually I ask at what point Pant will come off

 

[ImpatientLime]

MS Dhoni at 7 might be the worst thing I've ever seen on this forum and I remember Blocky and Atherton>Hayden

 

[ankitj]

Pant comes off fairly often these days!

 

[kyear2]

Dujon.

And generally a lack of support for Jock Cameron

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Over ten days now since the list was last updated. Either call it or burn the thread.

Marsh 5
Sanga 4
QDK 1
Flower 1
Lindsay 2
Oldfield 1
Dujon 1

 

[Migara]

I think it was expected when you lumped batsmen - keepers and keeper batsmen together.

Gilly, Sanga, Flower, QdK, ABdV, Dhoni, Pant, Chandimal, McCullum, Rahim, Stewart, Wade et al needs to be graded seperately, because they are batsmen that kept. They were not the best glovemen for their countries and made the side on the sheer weight of the runs they make.

Dujon, Healy, Knott, Jayawardene, Boucher, Kirmani, Latif, R. Marsh, Russell, Tallon, Saha etc were infact best glovemen for their respective countries. What ever they scored were bonus. Gilchrist could be added to this list too.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Gilly, Sanga, Flower, QdK, ABdV, Dhoni, Pant, Chandimal, McCullum, Rahim, Stewart, Wade et al needs to be graded seperately, because they are batsmen that kept. They were not the best glovemen for their countries and made the side on the sheer weight of the runs they make.

Misleading. Gilchrist was an excellent keeper. Pretty confident that Dhoni and McCullum were too.

You can't lump those guys in with the rest on that list

edit: You've even got Boucher on that second list who was not as good a keeper as half those on the first list. Looks like you've just separated them on how good at batting they were rather than anything to do with keeping skills

 

[Line and Length]

I have taken over the running of threads conducted by @gftw but I am leaving this alone. Combining wicketkeepers with batsmen was, IMO, a mistake. Some excellent glovemen (eg Tallon) will be overlooked while VG batsmen who happened to take the gloves get votes.