Migara
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Yeah just forgot. Definite addition. Hashan Tillekaratne too.
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CW's Ranking of WicketKeeper-Batsmen (Tests)
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TheJediBrah
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I wasn't disputing their keeping at all, just saying they weren't quite in the same league as batsmen as Gilchrist, de Kock, Dhoni etc.
271 & 16/166
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As usual Ian Healy is ignored completely when we come to polls, better keeper than all, bar Knott, made vital 100s
Pap Finn Keighl
International Debutant
Ames
Up there with Gilly and Knott
Up there with Gilly and Knott
Migara
International Coach
Koch and Dhoni are not elite with keeping abilities. Healy, Knott, Jayawardene, Latif, Saha, Marsh, Dujon are the pure top echelon keepers who were able to useful with the bat. Gilly is probably in between, very good with the gloves, ATG with the bat.
TheJediBrah
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That has nothing to do with what I said, but yeah ok
NZTailender
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Watling
Migara
International Coach
Sanga, Flower, Tillakaratne, Stewart all are batsmen who kept.
Pap Finn Keighl
International Debutant
2nd best asian wk batsman after Dhoni.
Fuller Pilch
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And Ian Smith, Adam Parore, and Brendon McCullum. NZ has had a good run with keepers. At the moment Blundell is a bit sloppy with his foot movement and gloves, but he can improve.
Lillian Thomson
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Farokh Engineer was a better keeper than many of those mentioned so far, and averaged over 30 with the bat with a couple of centuries and multiple 50’s.
CricAddict
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I agree. Will vote for him next after Watling. Gilchrist, Knott, Watling, Engineer is a decent top 4.
Post that, there are Dujon, Healy, Rod Marsh, Sanga, Flower, Boucher, Dhoni, De Kock, Mccullum, Stewart, Latif, Jacobs in no specific order.
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah, Heals is right up there - top five for me I reckon, I'll be voting for him very soon.
I assume you saw a bit of Engineer? I know there are a few people here who saw him and rate him very highly - I had always thought it was commonly accepted that Kirmani was the greatest Indian gloveman, but it seems that those who saw Engineer in action don't necessarily agree.
OverratedSanity
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My dad has always been a bit of a Kirmani hater. Thinks he was decent but his glovework was massively overrated and sloppy.
Nikhil99.99
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Les ames.His keeping is way underrated+being undoubtedly GOAT wk batsman till gilchrist.
Wisden obituary
Leslie Ethelbert George Ames, CBE, who died suddenly at his home in Canterbury on February 26, 1990, aged 84, was without a doubt the greatest wicketkeeper-batsman the game has so far produced; and yet, at the time he was playing, it used to be said there were better wicketkeepers than Ames, and that he was in the England team because of his batting. If this was so, would Jardine, for example, have preferred him to Duckworth in Australia in 1932-33? Surely not. When fully fit, Ames was England's first-choice wicketkeeper from 1931 to 1939,
Wisden obituary
Leslie Ethelbert George Ames, CBE, who died suddenly at his home in Canterbury on February 26, 1990, aged 84, was without a doubt the greatest wicketkeeper-batsman the game has so far produced; and yet, at the time he was playing, it used to be said there were better wicketkeepers than Ames, and that he was in the England team because of his batting. If this was so, would Jardine, for example, have preferred him to Duckworth in Australia in 1932-33? Surely not. When fully fit, Ames was England's first-choice wicketkeeper from 1931 to 1939,
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Lillian Thomson
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I saw quite a lot of Engineer on two tours of England and he played for Lancashire at a time when they were very successful and on TV a lot due to their One-Day success. Kirmani I can barely remember seeing at all. He wasn't on the 79 tour of England and in those days we didn't see overseas cricket on TV at all. I would have seen Kirmani on the 82 tour, but that's all. If people who saw more of him say he was the best I wouldn't be able to dispute it.