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*Official* India Tour of England 2018

Shri

Shri

Mr. Glass
Spark said:
oh yeah i mean off pacemen. most subcontinental sides are pretty solid close-in, it's this stuff they struggle with. it feels like these two (karthik and dhawan) have never really fielded together before as keeper/1st slip and that dhawan isn't really used to the position, which is how mistakes like that happen.

this is why i will yell to the end of time that first slip is a specialist fielding position and teams who keep rotating people out of there are just setting themselves up to drop easy catches
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Rahane is a gun in the slips. Kohli the **** should put him in 1st slip forever but he is a ****ing idiot. Good bat but a ****ing idiot.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
OverratedSanity said:
Smith is probably the best example of this. Takes some absolute blinders but drops a few too many for me to consider him a great slipper. Taking the catchable ones consistently is what you really need.
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so many world class or even atg level outfielders have been like this. both symonds and clarke were atg-standard point/cover fielders who were utterly hopeless when they first got moved into the slips. even ponting was never quite as reliable at 2nd slip as he was at nailing the stumps from 30 yards at midwicket or cover point (although i think a lot of that is just him having had a suboptimal technique)
 
Gnske

Gnske

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
OverratedSanity said:
Smith is probably the best example of this. Takes some absolute blinders but drops a few too many for me to consider him a great slipper. Taking the catchable ones consistently is what you really need.
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This is probably the most unjustified **** i'll ever say, but to me he's an edge slipper if that's even a real term. He doesn't look comfortable at all at 1st/2nd against pacers when he's got blokes either side of him.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
Gnske said:
This is probably the most unjustified **** i'll ever say, but to me he's an edge slipper if that's even a real term. He doesn't look comfortable at all at 1st/2nd against pacers when he's got blokes either side of him.
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to be fair smith never "looks" comfortable doing just about anything
 
morgieb

morgieb

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Spark said:
so many world class or even atg level outfielders have been like this. both symonds and clarke were atg-standard point/cover fielders who were utterly hopeless when they first got moved into the slips. even ponting was never quite as reliable at 2nd slip as he was at nailing the stumps from 30 yards at midwicket or cover point (although i think a lot of that is just him having had a suboptimal technique)
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Mark Waugh OTOH.....
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
OverratedSanity said:
Ponting was better than Spark is making out too imo. Not Waugh/Taylor level in the slips but still pretty damn good.
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oh no he was superb, but he wasn't as godly as he was in the ring. i would put hayden and warne ahead of him as slip fielders (as did the team at the time)
 
Borges

Borges

International Regular
Percent slip catches dropped (2012 to mid 2017):

South Africa 14.7

New Zealand 16.3
Australia 18.6

Sri Lanka 21.1
Pakistan 21.4
Bangladesh 22.1
West Indies 23.7

England: 25.2
Zimbabwe: 25.9

India: 30.8
 
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