Batting Wicketkeepers

[Richard]

thats a bit harsh isnt it? He is just going through a lean patch at the moment....give the poor guy a brk!

That poor patch has lasted rather a long time... it's been 9 years since he first came to England as a 17-year-old schoolboy.

 

[chaminda_00]

2. Jayawardene is not that great a wicketkeeper.

Jayawardene is pretty good keeper, he just can't keep to Murali. Which was the orignal reason why Sangakkara got dropped as a keeper, he missed too many chances against Murali. Then Jayawardene struggled to keep to him, but they kept the experiment going as Sangakkara bats better when not keeping. If Kaushal Silva improves his keeping them he will get infront Jayawardene, as the selectors seem to fixed on the idea we need someone else to keep so Sangakkara can play as specialist batsmen.

As a batsmen Silva already good enough to make the A side as a batsmen alone, so his only slightly below Chamara Silva, Dilshan and Kapugedera. Another good A series against Bangladesh and England he will probably jump ahead of Samarawerra in the picking order, as a batsmen.

 

[vic_orthdox]

I feel that you can't be considered an aggressive batsman unless you actually show that with performances, because if you are unable to show that on the international stage then as far as I'm concerned you are only a batsman with an aggressive mindset which is completely different from an aggressive batsman.

Completely disagree. Being a good batsman, and being an aggressive batsman, isn't mutually exclusive.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Murali would have to be the hardest guy in the world to keep to, keeping that in mind.

 

[adharcric]

Kumble the second hardest?

 

[chaminda_00]

Kumble the second hardest?

If you watched Mongia keep to him he wasn't that hard. Just the current lot of Indian keepers make him look harder then what he really is.

 

[adharcric]

If you watched Mongia keep to him he wasn't that hard. Just the current lot of Indian keepers make him look harder then what he really is.

No chance Mongia made him look easier than what he really is?

 

[chaminda_00]

No chance Mongia made him look easier than what he really is?

There is that, but for me Mongia was a very good keeper, but there have been a lot better keeper then him. So its not as if he made every aspect of keeping look easy like a few others.

 

[adharcric]

Anyways, who would you say is the hardest to keep to after Murali?

 

[chaminda_00]

Probably standing up to seamer, i don't think there is any spinner who are harder to keep to really.

Guys like Kumble, Afridi and other spinners who bowl at fast would be next then. I probably throw someone in like Brad Hogg due to the fact no one can read his wrong on.

 

[Richard]

Well even fewer people can read Kaneria's Wrong-'Un...

 

[Richard]

No chance Mongia made him look easier than what he really is?

Seriously, though - how many of the 'keepers picked since him have been piss-poor, though?

I don't know much about the 'keeping of Mannuka Prasad, Karim, Dighe and Dahiya, but Dasgupta, Ratra, Patel and, of times, Dhoni are(\were) simply dreadful wicketkeepers full-stop.

Karthik looks rather better, mind.