The greatest fielders from each nation

[Red]

Not a poll or anything, just a thread for conversation about the great fielders, and also for posting any links/articles about guys who were great fielders.

Would be great to get some earlier era info too.

 

[Burgey]

Off the top of my head:

Aus - Ponting, M Waugh, Symonds, Harvey, Border
SA - Rhodes, Bland, de Villiers
Eng - Collingwood, Pratt
WI - Sobers, Richards, Logie, Harper, Haynes, Lloyd
India - Solkar, Dravid
Pakistan - N/A
SL - N/A
NZ - Harris

 

[Blocky]

Off the top of my head:

Aus - Ponting, M Waugh, Symonds, Harvey, Border
SA - Rhodes, Bland, de Villiers
Eng - Collingwood, Pratt
WI - Sobers, Richards, Logie, Harper, Haynes, Lloyd
India - Solkar, Dravid
Pakistan - N/A
SL - N/A
NZ - Harris

England - Chris Jordan
Pakistan - Afridi (youth)
SL - Jayawardene
NZ - Guptill, Harris, Williamson, Watling (pre keeper days)
SA - Herchelle Gibbs, Boeta Dippenaar

 

[Burgey]

Some good shouts there (pun intended)

 

[Blocky]

Steve Smith is starting to get himself in the mix too.

 

[Tom Flint]

Good slippers don't automatically make great fielders. In fact some of the best slip catchers only end up in there as they are terrible outfielders. I can't imagine the likes of Richards, Dravid, m Waugh being as quick or athletic at point or on the boundary as Rhodes warner collingwood warner.
England - collingwood
S.a - Rhodes
Nz - boult
WI - Darren bravo
Sri Lanka - dilshan

 

[Burgey]

Good slippers don't automatically make great fielders. In fact some of the best slip catchers only end up in there as they are terrible outfielders. I can't imagine the likes of Richards, Dravid, m Waugh being as quick or athletic at point or on the boundary as Rhodes warner collingwood warner.
England - collingwood
S.a - Rhodes
Nz - boult
WI - Darren bravo
Sri Lanka - dilshan

I commend the highlights of Australia's innings in the 1975 WC final to you if you're not sure about Richards fielding. He was flat out brilliant. As was Mark Waugh. Anywhere.

 

[Immenso]

Richards and Waugh were sensational outfielders.

Richards famous for his 1975 World Cup fielding exploits.

 

[Burgey]

Steve Smith is starting to get himself in the mix too.

Except he keeps dropping dollies in the slips between taking screamers. Weird.

 

[Zinzan]

Think you have to differentiate between great slippers/ specialist catches and general outfielders known for their speed, athleticism etc.

For NZ

Best slippers:

Coney, Fleming, Taylor (2007-2013), Bryan Young

Best outfielders:

Harris, Guptill, McCullum

 

[Zinzan]

Except he keeps dropping dollies in the slips between taking screamers. Weird.

Too much time to think about the dollies probably. NZ's Mitch Santner is similar in that respect, takes the blinders & drops the easy ones when he has time to think about it.

 

[cnerd123]

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

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

 

[Zinzan]

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

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

Dravid's the only one of those 3 to be a genuinely great slipper in the Mark Taylor, Stephen Fleming, Mark Waugh, Ian Chappell, Jeremy Coney, Bob Simpson top level category.

 

[uvelocity]

who had the biggest arm in cricket

 

[Athlai]

who had the biggest arm in cricket

Symonds and Chris Cairns had lightning arms from the outfield.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee had two of the best outfield arms I've seen.

Before the back injury Michael Clarke was in this conversation IMO.

 

[Blocky]

Symonds and Chris Cairns had lightning arms from the outfield.

Yeah, Cairns comes to mind as probably the biggest cannon from the outfield.

 

[adub]

I commend the highlights of Australia's innings in the 1975 WC final to you if you're not sure about Richards fielding. He was flat out brilliant. As was Mark Waugh. Anywhere.

This, this and so much this. Both these guys could be put anywhere on the field and they were a threat. In the ring they could get to the ball quickly and throw the stumps down from any angle. Quick, strong arms and safe hands for outfield work, and excellent in the cordon. I'd have Waugh shading Viv for his superior slip catching, but they were both brilliant. AB was similar, but not to the same level.

Jonty and Harper for instance were genius at what they did, but you can't say they were top shelf slips because they didn't find themselves there. Junior did field everywhere and bossed it.

 

[uvelocity]

re arms; brett lee and symonds were the ones who came to mind for me first. even pigeon didnt have a bad one. being a bowler i cant throw at all anymore, surprises me how many bowlers have cannons, plenty of my other bowling mates cant throw either., rotator cuff.

 

[Blocky]

re arms; brett lee and symonds were the ones who came to mind for me first. even pigeon didnt have a bad one. being a bowler i cant throw at all anymore, surprises me how many bowlers have cannons, plenty of my other bowling mates cant throw either., rotator cuff.

Yup; it's weird, rotator cuffs don't really stop you bowling quickly but it ****s with your throwing, I went from being able to throw flat from most boundaries to having to lob it after ****ing my rotator cuff.