The greatest fielders from each nation

[Burgey]

Moody and McDermott both had massive throwing arms.

 

[Zinzan]

Cairns had the best arm for NZ, but many forget Hadlee's arm wasn't far behind...absolute rocket.

 

[_Ed_]

NZ - Guptill, Harris, Williamson, Watling (pre keeper days)

His name's been sadly tarnished since then, but Vincent was one of the best I've seen in NZ colours.

 

[Zinzan]

Good call, forgot about Vincent's speed around the field, although his hands were a bit up and down.

 

[honestbharani]

From India, our Lord and Savior AA had an absolutely outstanding arm from the deep. I would say circa 98-2002 or so, his was as good as any in world cricket. Was pretty quick across the turf too.

 

[micz]

Michael Hussey was a pretty handy fielder

 

[Blocky]

His name's been sadly tarnished since then, but Vincent was one of the best I've seen in NZ colours.

Yeah, that's a good shout too - McCullum probably deserves to be listed also.

 

[Zinzan]

Yeah, that's a good shout too - McCullum probably deserves to be listed also.

He was

 

[DriveClub]

One of the marshall guys from nz were good

 

[cnerd123]

From India, our Lord and Savior AA had an absolutely outstanding arm from the deep. I would say circa 98-2002 or so, his was as good as any in world cricket. Was pretty quick across the turf too.

This reminds me, wasn't Kapil Dev a great outfielder too?

I actually found a nice article on Cricinfo about this topic:
Ramachandra Guha: Memories of some great Indian fielders down the years | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

Learnt something new:

Someone who played even fewer Tests than Kaif was Ramnath Parkar, who some old Mumbaikars reckon was unequalled, before or since, when fielding at cover point. I once spent a day at the Wankhede Stadium watching Parkar unfold his skills in a Ranji Trophy match. Cover point is a key position especially for left-arm spinners, and I marvelled as Padmakar Shivalkar bowled, over after over, and Parkar anticipated the drives and cuts to his left and his right, picking up the ball one-handed and throwing it fast and flat to the wicketkeeper.

 

[vcs]

India - Solkar, Azhar, peak Yuvi, peak Kaif, Raina, Nohit, Jadeja

We've had some great slippers - Dravid, Laxman, Sehwag.

Azhar was probably the best allround Indian fielder I've seen in my lifetime.

Sir Jadeja runs him close though (Ajay Jadeja was also quite good). Though Jaddu does have a habit of dropping a few in the slips.

 

[cnerd123]

Azhar was probably the best allround Indian fielder I've seen in my lifetime.

Sir Jadeja runs him close though (Ajay Jadeja was also quite good). Though Jaddu does have a habit of dropping a few in the slips.

Yea both Jadejas are/were gun outfielders. I remember Ajay being good for his time; the Indian team back then was quite sloppy. He wouldn't seem so great today.

Robin Singh was quite good too wasn't he?

Also Venugopal Rao sticks out in my mind because he held a real steepler of a catch in a India vs Pak ODI that I got to see live in Abu Dhabi. It was one of those moments where you realise that you're never going to get even remotely close to International cricket, when a fringe ODI player can take catches like that as tho it was nothing...

 

[honestbharani]

This reminds me, wasn't Kapil Dev a great outfielder too?

I actually found a nice article on Cricinfo about this topic:
Ramachandra Guha: Memories of some great Indian fielders down the years | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

Learnt something new:

Back in the day we had a slip cordon with Prabhakar or Kapil at first slip (when the other was bowling), Azhar at second and Sachin at 3rd. Manjrekar was short leg, think Sidhu or someone else used to field gully. Was a very good cordon. Kapil is probably the best all round fielder we have ever had, narrowly beating out Azhar.

 

[SeamUp]

Out-fielders : Endean, Bland, P.Kirsten, Rhodes, Gibbs, AB , JP, Faf, Miller, Rossouw

Slip fielders : Goddard, Barlow, Procter, Richards, Kourie, G.Pollock, Rice ,Wessels, McMillan, Cullinan, S.Pollock, Smith, Kallis

 

[vic_orthdox]

Roshan Mahanama and Dilshan a couple of Lankan nominations.

Chris Duval and Brendan Drew were the best arms in Australian domestic cricket for a time, both having had some interest from baseball.

 

[Shri]

Dinesh Kartik is an excellent fielder when he is not playing as a keeper too.

 

[Shri]

Also, for NZ:

Sinclair was pretty good.

 

[Zinzan]

Also, for NZ:

Sinclair was pretty good.

The interesting thing is that he really wasn't a great fieldsman ordinarily. He certainly wasn't terrible, but was just there or thereabouts in terms of the NZ'ders. Which of course made that catch, which I still maintain is the best I've seen all the more remarkable.

 

[Shri]

The interesting thing is that he really wasn't a great fieldsman ordinarily. He certainly wasn't terrible, but was just there or thereabouts in terms of the NZ'ders. Which of course made that catch, which I still maintain is the best I've seen all the more remarkable.

In his time, NZ had some of the best fielders in the world playing for them. Almost every one was superb in the field, which might have made him look average. Those were the days when India had trouble rotating the strike in ODIs against NZ because the ball couldn't get past the ring no matter how decent the placement was.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah that Sinclair catch was something else.