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The Best Wicket keeper?

GOAT Wicket keeper

  • Adam Gilchrist

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  • Jack Blackham

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Jeff Dujon

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Don Tallon

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Bob Taylor

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Prasanna Jayawardene

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    14

Bolo.

International Captain
Safer and Great against spin, so yeah. Dhoni really is getting underrated now.....
Dhoni was great in ODIs with how he pressured the bats, but pretty meh in tests. For people with long keeping stints, I think I might rate him the best in ODIs I've seen, and the worst in tests.
 

Thala_0710

U19 Vice-Captain
Dhoni was great in ODIs with how he pressured the bats, but pretty meh in tests. For people with long keeping stints, I think I might rate him the best in ODIs I've seen, and the worst in tests.
Surely any cricketers keeping skills don't change that much from format to format
 

capt_Luffy

International Captain
Dhoni was great in ODIs with how he pressured the bats, but pretty meh in tests. For people with long keeping stints, I think I might rate him the best in ODIs I've seen, and the worst in tests.
Dhoni was very ugly but his gloveswork was top notch against spin and more than adequate to pace.
 

Coronis

International Coach
Surely any cricketers keeping skills don't change that much from format to format
Would depend on their stamina I guess. Even a single session of keeping in a test is 4x longer than a T20 and like 1.8x longer than an ODI.

Plus you know, different tactics and styles of bowling are often employed across formats, they might be more suited to those particular ones.
 

Coronis

International Coach
I just don't rate keepers much higher based on just their performance to pacers. Sure, Dujon was World Class to pace, but he was at his best standing far back and had his issues even with bowlers like Harper.
iirc I remember a certain keeper in some random article asserting that keeping to spinners was the true test of a keeper.
 

capt_Luffy

International Captain
iirc I remember a certain keeper in some random article asserting that keeping to spinners was the true test of a keeper.
I don't know about that, but I actually agree. Spinners needs much sharper reflexes on the get go. I have kept in a few friendlies, but even at that low level, spinners were nightmarishly tougher than pacers.
 

Bolo.

International Captain
Dhoni was very ugly but his gloveswork was top notch against spin and more than adequate to pace.
I don't think he was more than adequate against pace. Poor I think.

I may be overestimating the importance of pace in his career though. A lot of what I saw him keep to was pace on account of watching him play in RSA.
Surely any cricketers keeping skills don't change that much from format to format
Not quite the same skills. In tests, if you drop a catch you are having a horror show of a match. This forces the keeper back against pace.

In LO a drop is often not as important. Run rate is sometimes key, and gets you wickets. He could stand up to a lot of bolwers, which he was outstanding at. He was outstanding at things like stumpings and runouts, which are much bigger factors in LOs- keeping the bats in the crease makes free scoring a lot trickier.
 

capt_Luffy

International Captain
I don't think he was more than adequate against pace. Poor I think.

I may be overestimating the importance of pace in his career though. A lot of what I saw him keep to was pace on account of watching him play in RSA.

Not quite the same skills. In tests, if you drop a catch you are having a horror show of a match. This forces the keeper back against pace.

In LO a drop is often not as important. Run rate is sometimes key, and gets you wickets. He could stand up to a lot of bolwers, which he was outstanding at. He was outstanding at things like stumpings and runouts, which are much bigger factors in LOs- keeping the bats in the crease makes free scoring a lot trickier.
Then let's agree to disagree. He was more than adequate to pacers more often than not and hardly dropped much.
 

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