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***Official*** South Africa in Sri Lanka 2014

Flem274*

Flem274*

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***** said:
How much would Amla average if he had been caught all the time he has been dropped?

Hard to recall another current day player who has been dropped as much as he has. I'd love to see the stats for this if possible - batsman most dropped since the early 2000s, highest drops per innings ratio, etc.

Amla ABDV Steyn; three future RSA ATGs in the same XI, whereas Sri Lanka have Mahela, Sanga and Mathews. And then high quality players like Herath, Morkel, Faf, Duminy, Philander...history is going to look back on this series as a pretty good one.
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Ask Richard
 
kykweer.proteas

kykweer.proteas

International Debutant
***** said:
How much would Amla average if he had been caught all the time he has been dropped?

Hard to recall another current day player who has been dropped as much as he has. I'd love to see the stats for this if possible - batsman most dropped since the early 2000s, highest drops per innings ratio, etc.

Amla ABDV Steyn; three future RSA ATGs in the same XI, whereas Sri Lanka have Mahela, Sanga and Mathews. And then high quality players like Herath, Morkel, Faf, Duminy, Philander...history is going to look back on this series as a pretty good one.
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Didnt Daid Warner get dropped like 6 times in the last test series in South Africa?
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
Interested to hear Jono's thoughts on that dismissal. Definitely a case where his method of just blocking from the crease, which does great on roads against seamers, directly contributed to his dismissal here

EDIT: The ABdV actual dismissal, that is
 
ohnoitsyou

ohnoitsyou

International Regular
Goes to show just how important it is to either get well forward or well back, theres a good chance AB would still be here if he did either of those two
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
kykweer.proteas said:
Well he was referring to current day players who get dropped a lot, those drop catches basically cost us the series.
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Hmm, not quite - his two innings in the deciding test were chanceless IIRC. It was in the first and second Tests that he got dropped over and over - in the first Test, his knock wasn't really the decisive one and we lost the second.
 
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kykweer.proteas

kykweer.proteas

International Debutant
Spark said:
Hmm, not quite - his two innings in the deciding test were chanceless IIRC. It was in the first and second Tests that he got dropped over and over - in the first Test, his knock wasn't really the decisive one and we lost the second.
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He was player of the series after having been dropped a few times... so he is relevant.
 
kykweer.proteas

kykweer.proteas

International Debutant
Spark said:
Hmm, not quite - his two innings in the deciding test were chanceless IIRC. It was in the first and second Tests that he got dropped over and over - in the first Test, his knock wasn't really the decisive one and we lost the second.
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He was player of the series after having been dropped a few times... so he is relevant.
 
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