Top 10 Fielders in the World

[PAKMAN]

has anyone seen the catch Roshan mahanama took off a Azarudhin flick at short mid wicket??? think it was 1997 in colombo. crazy catch it was.

YEAH I REMEMBER THAT ONE WAS GREAT

 

[Nate]

Dwayne Smith is as good as Collingwood in the field. There's just the small matter of teams preferring to pick batsmen for their batting rather than their fielding. Collingwood wins because he's actually done something other than field for England.

That said, Smith is a very handy ODI bowler. He should work on that aspect of his game, seeing as he's intent on squandering his glorious batting talent.

 

[Nate]

Warne is good in slips...

 

[Dydl]

Since he is usually placed in slips, he will be accustomed to the position, and is good at it. That would make sense.

 

[Tony Blade]

I disagree

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Why is that funny?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Erm, that'd be 7

Stuck in Chandana at the last minute in an 'oops' moment. It's only actually bothering you, so I won't bother to edit it.

 

[marc71178]

It's not actually bothering me.

I was thinking another way of doing this sort of thread.

What would be your alltime best fielding team (in position)

ie set a field for a game, and put in the best people to fill that field...

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

'Keeper - Taibu
Slips - Flintoff, Warne, Lara
Backward Pt. - Gibbs
Cover - Collingwood
Midwicket - Ponting

Not sure about the other 3 yet.

 

[bryce]

yuvraj wouldn't be a bad choice at point, i always thought collingwood fielded at point ?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

yuvraj wouldn't be a bad choice at point, i always thought collingwood fielded at point ?

Yes, but I needed a spot for Gibbs and he's also a fine fielder at backward point. I'm not intending to have a backward point and a point except for one or two players in world cricket.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

The better catches that come to mind immediately are ..

Lara's screamer off Flintoff in the CT final. Unbelievable.

 

[Richard]

Clarke is a heaps good fielder but not a slip.

Clarke is not a good fielder.

 

[Richard]

Don't know if anyone else saw this one, but the best catch I've ever seen was a Superman effort by Daren Ganga at square leg. Gary Kirsten play a thunderous pull and Ganga flew full stretch and took it one-handed in a split second.

Lara also took an amazing catch off Klusener last year.

No-one can ever possibly, I don't think, take a better catch than Rhodes' off Croft in The Emirates Trophy 1998.
I won't try and describe it, if you don't mind - words couldn't possibly do it justice.

 

[andyc]

first post

my first post! anyway, one cool catch i saw was a couple of years ago, i think it was slater at silly mid on and the batsman, i think he miteve been english, smashed it, and as the batsman hit the ball, slater turned to the side, and the camera panned out trying to find the ball. then it turned out the ball actually went into slaters chest and he held it. couldnt help laughing

 

[twctopcat]

Lara's screamer off Flintoff in the CT final. Unbelievable.

I enjoyed lara's screamer off Flintoff in the 4th test in Antigua.

 

[Richard]

One of the most significant dropped catches of recent times.
I believe that one terrible innings taught Flintoff a few things.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Reminds me of Russell Arnold's catch off Trescothick.

 

[Richard]

What, in that the fielder got credit for doing nothing?

 

[Crazy Sam]

that catch ponting took of symonds's bowling in the last vb series was amazing. I think it may have been tendulkar who was dismissed from it as well.