zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Robelinda to post Russell's stumping of Dean Jones off the bowling of Gladstone Small in 1990/91?
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Best 5 Wicketkeeper Batsman Of Modern Era
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robelinda
International Vice-Captain
Here's the Jack Russell stumping
The brilliance of JACK RUSSELL- incredible stumping 3rd test 1990/91 Ashes - YouTube
And here's the stumping off Glenn McGrath's bowling
Craig McMillian STUMPED- Glenn McGrath bowling..... - YouTube
The brilliance of JACK RUSSELL- incredible stumping 3rd test 1990/91 Ashes - YouTube
And here's the stumping off Glenn McGrath's bowling
Craig McMillian STUMPED- Glenn McGrath bowling..... - YouTube
Jacknife
International Captain
Jack Russell is imo a much better keeper than PJ.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Brumby to be deeply angered by this.
Some vital statistics for all Test keepers with 15+ appearances since 1990....
Batting Averages of Keepers Since 1st January 1990:-
1. Andy Flower: 53.70 (4404 Runs and 12 Hundreds)
2. Adam Gilchrist: 47.60 (5570 Runs and 17 Hundreds)
3. Matt Prior: 44.71 (2549 Runs and 6 Hundreds)
4. Kumar Sangakkara: 40.48 (3117 Runs and 7 Hundreds)
5. MS Dhoni: 38.14 (3242 Runs and 4 Hundreds)
6. Brad Haddin: 37.84 (1930 Runs and 3 Hundreds)
7. Alec Stewart: 34.92 (4540 Runs and 6 Hundreds)
8. Brendon McCullum: 34.77 (2782 Runs and 5 Hundreds)
9. Tatenda Taibu: 31.00 (1457 Runs and 1 Hundred)
10. Kamran Akmal: 30.79 (2648 Runs and 6 Hundreds)
And yet some would still have Boucher and Stewart ahead of Prior?!
Batting Averages of Keepers Since 1st January 1990:-
1. Andy Flower: 53.70 (4404 Runs and 12 Hundreds)
2. Adam Gilchrist: 47.60 (5570 Runs and 17 Hundreds)
3. Matt Prior: 44.71 (2549 Runs and 6 Hundreds)
4. Kumar Sangakkara: 40.48 (3117 Runs and 7 Hundreds)
5. MS Dhoni: 38.14 (3242 Runs and 4 Hundreds)
6. Brad Haddin: 37.84 (1930 Runs and 3 Hundreds)
7. Alec Stewart: 34.92 (4540 Runs and 6 Hundreds)
8. Brendon McCullum: 34.77 (2782 Runs and 5 Hundreds)
9. Tatenda Taibu: 31.00 (1457 Runs and 1 Hundred)
10. Kamran Akmal: 30.79 (2648 Runs and 6 Hundreds)
And yet some would still have Boucher and Stewart ahead of Prior?!
Probably because he was a very natural talent as a batsman, whereas he was a terribly untalented wicket-keeper (possibly an exaggeration both ways, but you get my point!)
He had to work so hard on his keeping to get it up to standard, his batting suffered completely. Whereas Prior always had the natural tools, great hands, athletic etc.
Prior's problem was footwork and starting position. Which can be rectified with effort, but not hours and hours of work. Stewart had to essentially learn the art as a whole!
So Prior could still work on his batting and keeping, whereas Stewart had to concentrate on his keeping far more!
He had to work so hard on his keeping to get it up to standard, his batting suffered completely. Whereas Prior always had the natural tools, great hands, athletic etc.
Prior's problem was footwork and starting position. Which can be rectified with effort, but not hours and hours of work. Stewart had to essentially learn the art as a whole!
So Prior could still work on his batting and keeping, whereas Stewart had to concentrate on his keeping far more!
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
To my mind the key thing was it stopped him opening regularly.
Yeah that's what first came to my mind.
Batting in the top 3
Keeping - 19 inns, 38.68 ave, 2 hundreds, 4 fifties
Not Keeping - 80 inns, 46.48 ave, 9 hundreds, 18 fifties
Batting positions 4-7
Keeping - 113 inns, 33.84 ave, 4 hundreds, 19 fifties
Not keeping - 10 inns, 48.75 ave, 0 hundreds, 4 fifties
Migara
International Coach
Boucher was labelled as a great gloveman. But that was until he got to keep Murali in the super test. Boucher struggled against three great spinners of the era in front of the wicket, and expected to the same against behind it as shown in the super test. Similarly Rusell never kept to a spinner of great quality, and as Boucher was struggling when he faced them. Can remember how akward was Russell against Mushtaq Ahmed. So don't expect him to do against spin well. Any fool can keep to medium pacers, and it's spinners and really quick men that test you out. At least boucher kept to two or three superbly quick bowlers, and Russel rarely kept to pacemen of that calibre. Simply, if don't play spin well, don't expect to keep to them as well. PJ for me, is leaps and bounds ahead Boucher and Russel when it comes to keeping to spin.
Migara
International Coach
Easily the best against spin, and might be the best ever keeper when it comes to keeping spin. Picking Saqlain when every one was ****ting in the pants against him is no mean feat.
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Complete crap. Russell kept to Courtney Walsh for something like 15 seasons.
He also kept a lot to Devon Malcolm and Syd Lawrence (with whom he played for Gloucestershire) who were both very quick and quite inaccurate. Which is some respects is a tougher proposition than keeping to accurate quick bowlers.
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Migara
International Coach
I'd love to know of all the great spinner that Russel has kept to, or at least played with authority as a batsman.