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MS Dhoni as a test wicketkeeper

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Richard said:
I know, I wasn't. I was saying that Gilchrist was proven as an opener and was not that good at lower-order hitting; Dhoni is proven as a lower-order hitter (and rebuilder, and over-the-line guider) and has not done the opening job.

And I was saying that there are quite a few better ODI openers than Gilchrist (Tendulkar, Lara [possibly], Mark Waugh, Saeed Anwar, Ganguly, Knight, Jayasuriya, Gayle [possibly], Smith - one could even argue a case for Kirsten and Astle) and very, very few better at the lower-order role than Dhoni. So hence, should Dhoni keep-up his form of the last 3 years for the next 4 or 5, I'd have no hesitation in picking him ahead of Gilchrist for a 1990s-onwards ODI XI.
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Yeah, wasn't directed at you, just a general point.

I'd probably have Dhoni as my keeper already, given the strength of the other openers. Haven't really thought about it.
 
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