Most catches dropped off a bowler?

[_00_deathscar]

Some of the dropped catches in the England/Pakistan series - jeez...

Without quantifying how easy the chances were, which bowler has the most catches dropped off them?
Would be interesting to go further into this - number of catches dropped per balls bowled or something to try to equalise it? Or in relation to how many wickets the bowler took?

Be interesting.

 

[trundler]

Probably Wasim

 

[kingkallis]

Probably Wasim

Second that.

 

[honestbharani]

Anyone who had to bowl with Kakmal as the keeper...

 

[vcs]

Rahane dropped 3 or 4 in a session off Ashwin against Bangladesh last year.

 

[Bijed]

It's both limited to 2006 onwards and out-of-date for some of the names now anyway, but I remember this

 

[mr_mister]

Murali could be up there too

 

[Daemon]

If there was a catches/match stat it’d be Amir imo

 

[CricAddict]

If there was a catches/match stat it’d be Amir imo

Came here to post this.

 

[Midwinter]

Thought Lyon would be on that list.

Matthew Wade cost him a few wickets

 

[TheJediBrah]

Anderson probably. Purely because of how much cricket he's played and his style of bowling netting him a lot of slips catches. Also not had the best slip fielders in his time.

 

[vcs]

Kaneria also haha

Sometimes I think Akmal put that perma-frown on his face

 

[honestbharani]

If there was a catches/match stat it’d be Amir imo

Kaneria also haha

Sometimes I think Akmal put that perma-frown on his face

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Anyone who had to bowl with Kakmal as the keeper...

 

[Starfighter]

http://www.sportstats.com.au/articles/droppedcatches2016.pdf

Charles Davis searched cricinfo commentary from 1999 to 2016 and the most he found for any bowler was 99 off Harbhajan. Anderson and Broad will have passed that by now, but that data misses about 10% of Harbhajan's career so he might just still be in the lead.

 

[honestbharani]

An Indian spinner or a Pak bowler are always good bets for these kind of stats.

 

[stephen]

I'm surprised it's not Murali, Warne, McGrath, Anderson or Walsh, just based on the sheer size of their careers and the opportunities they'd created.

 

[AndrewB]

I'm surprised it's not Murali, Warne, McGrath, Anderson or Walsh, just based on the sheer size of their careers and the opportunities they'd created.

Or Kumble.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Kaneria's stats would look pretty respectable if not for Akmal imo. Not surprised he has that many misses off his bowling in such a short career.

 

[Spark]

It's both limited to 2006 onwards and out-of-date for some of the names now anyway, but I remember this

Broad had an incredible number of relatively simple catches dropped off his bowling in that 2012 series, which was notable given that he averaged about 10 regardless.