Which is wrong. Sanga's peak came only after he gave up gloves. There goes your argument out of the window.
I also want something that you are smoking. Here is Sanga up to 2005 November, where he last kept as a designated keeper. In 2008 he kept two matches as stand in keeper. He averages 41.2 up to 2006/11 and with two matches he was standing in 40.4. From 2006/11 till his retirement in 2015, Sanga averaged 66.5 as a specialist batsman. I am not sure where are you pulling these numbers out of.
This is a very fair assessment. On other side of the coin, if he started as a pure batsman we could argue he would have averaged 60+ with the bat.
This would have been compelling argument if the improvement was only in tests. He kept in ODIs and the progress in ODI cricket was much more than in test cricket (despite being not as flashy as a test player). So the available evidence points towards the improvement can happen even with keeping. The level of improvement of course is debatable as we have discussed earlier. Even if Sanga hasn't improved a bit from 2006 onwards, he still averages more than Dhoni. That the the punch line here.
Sanga Averaged more in 2000-2006 period as a specialist batsman compared to rest of his career. So, that could be his peak period.
Not as WK batsman.
Keeping in ODIs isn't comparable to keeping in Tests though
Sanga in 2000-2006 only played 17 matches as non keeper compared to 80 odd in next few years. Still his non wk highest cumulative average of 96.4 occurs in 2007after of giving up the gloves (when standing in matches of 2008, due to injury to PJ, discounted)
It is not mutually exclusive fact either.
Because He was a WK in his peak.. That reduced his batting output. Had he played as a pure batsman in that phase, his avg would have been much much better as evident from those 17 tests where he averaged 79 compared to avg of 41 as WK in the same period . ( almost double )
Still not true. There are plenty of 17 match blocks he averaged more than this. Once again, argument not true.
And?? He literally said calling him terrible is a plain wrong, and that he was just untidy and dropped a few. Him giving the gloves to Taibu is very logical, as is wanting to not bear the stress. Doesn't means he didn't. As long as his keeping is serviceable enough, which by all means and purposes it seems to be; every keeper drops a few, he is good enough for me to be better than someone who averages 20 less.
That's acceptable?
You meant Taibu who could had walked into Zimbabwe as a batsman alone?? And as a 50+ averaging bat, dropping here and there a few is acceptable given its not a regular thing; can't give much of a **** about tidiness given its efficient. Not like Gilchrist didn't had bad series (2005 Ashes).