Best Glovemen

[masterblaster]

Dinesh Karthik has a lot of talent and technically is very sound behind the stumps, if he bats as well for India as he has been for India A and Tamil Nadu then I think Karthik will be up there in the future in terms of best glovemen.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Examples only...

Meh! Discrimination! You're just angry because you couldn't beat us 8-0. :P

 

[SJS]

With so much emphasis on batting thanks to one day cricket, pure wicket keeping skills are less appreciated. This is a fact whether we like it or not. Even the knowledgeable cricket fans know very little about what goes towards making a good/great wicket keeper. Hence all this talk of Gilchrist being a great/on-way-to-being-great keeper.

With due respects to a great cricketer, Gilchrist is far from being in the top echelons of wicket keepers. The last great keeper we saw was Ian Healy and God knows when we will see the next.

 

[Mr Casson]

Let's make SJS an honorary Queenslander.

 

[Mister Wright]

Let's make SJS an honorary Queenslander.

Even with your ignorance towards anything good/great to come out of Queensland (Watson excluded) you would surely agree that Healy is/was a much better keeper than Gilchrist.

 

[Mr Casson]

Even with your ignorance towards anything good/great to come out of Queensland (Watson excluded) you would surely agree that Healy is/was a much better keeper than Gilchrist.

Yes, I'm ignorant. Yes, I have an unfounded bias towards Queensland. Yes, everything I say is stupid. *Yawn*

 

[Mister Wright]

Yes, I'm ignorant. Yes, I have an unfounded bias towards Queensland. Yes, everything I say is stupid. *Yawn*

Get out the otherside of the bed tomorrow morning.

 

[Mr Casson]

Get out the otherside of the bed tomorrow morning.

I will if you will, sunshine.

 

[Mister Wright]

I will if you will, sunshine.

It is a bit hard for me, as I have my bed against the wall.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Either Alan Knott, Godfrey Evans or Don Tallon for sheer skill.

 

[honestbharani]

I think Healy was the best. BTW, did I see someone mention Jayawardena among the wicket keepers?

 

[vic_orthdox]

did anyone read that comment that darren berry made saying something along the lines of that gilchrist is a very poor keeper ?

yeh i did, and i reckon its true. he's an adequate "backstop", but how often do you see him getting people out himself with stumpings off medium pacers and spinners, like the healy's and the russell's were able to do.

 

[Mr Casson]

It is a bit hard for me, as I have my bed against the wall.

Ditto.

 

[Neil Pickup]

I think Healy was the best. BTW, did I see someone mention Jayawardena among the wicket keepers?

That was me. The Jayawardene of the Prasanna variety.