Best Gloveman (purely in keeping alone)

[Athlai]

Jayawardene is the most solid but I'd say McCullum has flairs of excellence in stumpings/run outs and the occassional unbelievable catch so he edged it for me.

I'd say Rahim > Dhoni too.

 

[aussie]

Kind of surprised @ how highly P Jayawardene is rated. I'd would have tought Boucher would be an obvious choice here.

 

[Cricket_God]

Kind of surprised @ how highly P Jayawardene is rated. I'd would have tought Boucher would be an obvious choice here.

boucher is horrible to spinners on turning tracks like he was in the 3rd test in india.
if you are talking about only keeping skills jayawardena is the best as his keeping
to spinners on turning tacks is the best and dhoni will be second as his keeping to
spinners is great and he may not be acrobatic as brendon but is safe.

 

[Julian87]

Boucher should be an obvious choice, but the fact he has never really had to keep to any test match standard spinners counts against him i reckon.

 

[weldone]

Boucher should be an obvious choice, but the fact he has never really had to keep to any test match standard spinners counts against him i reckon.

He had to, in one test though, and was almost terrible...

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Hopefully it'll pan out into a battle between Jayawardene and Boucher. The rest range somewhere between the adequate McCullum and dreadfully inadequate Prior.

 

[Migara]

Boucher should be an obvious choice, but the fact he has never really had to keep to any test match standard spinners counts against him i reckon.

The only time he kept to test quality spinner (in suoer test) he was awful.

 

[Uppercut]

McCullum for me. Makes the occasional howler but more often than that takes catches you wouldn't even call a chance if there was anyone else behind the stumps.

 

[_Ed_]

the adequate McCullum

I don't think that's giving him enough credit.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I don't think that's giving him enough credit.

If I think a wicketkeeper is "adequate" that's high praise.

 

[zaremba]

As a pure keeper, Chris Read. A bit quiet behind the stumps though, which I think counted against him during the last decade.

 

[Richard]

Although I'm sure it did (Duncan Fletcher even specifically stated as such at one point UIMM), there's no doubt it wouldn't have done if Read was a more natural-looking batsman, even if not neccessarily a much better one (turned-out there's precious little between him and Geraint Jones as batsmen even though ol' Geraint is a much more natural willow-wielder).

 

[Richard]

boucher is horrible to spinners on turning tracks

No he isn't. He's not as good as you'd hope a top-class wicketkeeper would be, but he is very far from "horrible".

However, for the most part excellence to spin has been unimportant for a South African wicketkeeper since readmission, because their seamers have been good enough that spin has mostly been unrequired.

 

[zaremba]

Yeah I've never known what to make of Read's batting given that he looked so sheepish in Tests and yet could be capable of effective violence in OD cricket.

 

[ozone]

Boucher. Anyone who counts the fact that he hasn't kept to a world class spinner regularly is mad, its hardly his fault, and if he had had the chance to do it regularly through his international career, I would have expected him to have done a good job.

Of the others, I haven't seen enough of Jayawardene, McCullum, Haddin and Dhoni are good, but not quite as good as Boucher as keepers, and Akmal, Prior and Ramdin are generally pretty poor, although the latter has gone up in my estimation during the current series. Tim Ambrose is possibly as good a keeper as any of the others, but hasn't played enough test cricket to prove it.

 

[Nishan]

Voted Jayawardena, he has been consistent keeper ever since his u-19 days when he was voted best of the lot in 1998 u-19 world cup. He has had high praise from most past keepers.

Boucher would be close secod, Both wouldnt make the fancy entertaining class that Brendon Mc belongs to.

 

[andruid]

No Morris Ouma!?

 

[Tim]

Michael Jackson's glovework can't be the same as it used to be!....

 

[shivfan]

Dhoni is so underrated here for his wicket keeping. He's an outstanding wicket keeper now and has improved leaps and bounds. Prior, Ramdin and Akmal are average while McCullum and Dhoni are quite sharp.

If the poll was around 6 or 7 years ago, I would've hands down said Mark Boucher, but he's going to be finishing up his career soon and he's not as good as he once was. Prasanna Jayawardene is a pretty solid wicket keeper, so for me it would be out of him or MS Dhoni.

Really?

I think Ramdin is much better as a gloveman than Dhoni, while Prasanna is very good too....

 

[Richard]

Nah, Ramdin isn't much better than Dhoni, no way, if he's even better at all (and TBH on recent evidence I don't think he is).

I wouldn't describe Ramdin as that much more than "average", but he's certainly considerably better than Kamran Akmal and Prior and does not deserve to be lumped in with them.