Great fielders in each fielding position

[fredfertang]

Loved Trevor Penney. Electric in the field.

Excellent call - he was as good as anyone

 

[zaremba]

Gus Logie at short leg
Roger Harper off his own bowling
Bob Simpson at slip (so they say)
Garry Sobers at leg slip

Lots of great fielders in the ring - Jonty / Bland / de Villiers / Randall / Ponting / Gower / Clive Lloyd and loads of others

Collingwood was a bloody good fielder and capable of doing extraordinary things, but I always felt he was a bit fallible - capable of missing what for him were pretty gettable catches

 

[Debris]

Wk: Allan Knott
First Slip: Bob Simpson
Second Slip: Mark Taylor
3rd Slip: Mark Waugh
Gully: Joel Garner
Cover: Colin Bland
Fine Leg: Brett Lee
Mid-Wicket: Andrew Symonds
Short Leg: Brian Close
Mid-off: Viv Richards
Bowler: Roger Harper

Particularly thought Colin Bland should get a mention.

"For the first time I heard people saying that they must go to a match especially to watch a fielder." - Brian Johnston

 

[Jager]

Alan Davidson is a must in this thread. "the claw" was a genius anywhere.

 

[Migara]

Roshan Mahanama - Any where the ball flies to.

 

[Migara]

Eknath Solkar being not mentioned is a crime. Not far behind is Hashan Tillekaratne when it comes to short catching.

 

[zaremba]

Eknath Solkar being not mentioned is a crime.

Au contraire!

Eknath Solcar best at short leg bar none....

 

[stumpski]

Ah now you're taking me back to the England sides of my youth - Botham and Hendrick in the slips, Gower and Randall in the covers, Knott or Taylor behind the sticks, Willis a much under-rated gully, Greig and Roope close in, even Boycs a safe pair of hands at long-leg or mid-on - might have the edge over the current side actually.

 

[watson]

Here is Harper's classic run out of Graham Gooch. Enjoy;

AMAZING ROGER HARPER FIELDING 1987 LORDS - YouTube

 

[Jarquis]

Well not necessarily because more catches will be coming through second than third and the priority always has to be holding the catches you can get a hand on.

Hmm, a risk vs reward kind of thing. By having the better slipper at third you risk second dropping one 3rd wouldn't have and the reward being 3rd gets a grab that the bloke at second wouldn't have got near.

Have always found it much easier at second slip than first.

 

[benchmark00]

Yeah I too find 2nd easier because you don't get the keeper diving across you as often and first obviously doesn't shark off you because he's standing further back.

Different slip positions require different things also, obviously. First slip watches the ball, 2nd is a combination of ball and bat, and third you just exclusively watch the bat. Depends what people prefer.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Reckon if Guptill actually becomes a decent test bat he'll be remembered as one of the great everyman fielders, keep him out of the slips though.

 

[Jacknife]

Graeme Hick was an excellent slipper

Mark Ramprakash and David Gower in the covers

A generation before I was also fascinated by Kent's Alan Ealham - didn't look much like as athlete but was very mobile in the outfield and had the most consistently accurate and flat throw from the deep that I have ever seen

I'd put Hick as one of the best slippers I've seen tbh never seemed to drop anything.

 

[Dan]

Colin Bland was a fantastic fieldsman.

In their day, Jack Hobbs and Charlie Macartney were renowned as being very good fieldsmen.


Wicketkeeper: Godfrey Evans
1st: Bob Simpson
2nd: Mark Waugh
3rd: de Villiers (teams don't always employ three slips, so he should be able to field anywhere)
Gully: Richie Benaud

Backward Point: Jonty Rhodes
Cover Point: Colin Bland
Extra Cover: Andrew Symonds

Mid On: Alan Davidson
Midwicket: Ricky Ponting
Fine Leg: Brett Lee

XI of:
Simpson, ABdV, Ponting, Waugh, Bland, Symonds, Benaud, Evans, Davidson, Lee, (Fast Bowler). Rhodes 12th man.

 

[JBMAC]

Keeper: Don Tallon
1st: Greg Chappell
2nd: Colin Cowdrey
3rd: Bob Simpson
Gully: Ian Redpath

Backward Point: Ricky Ponting
Cover Point: Colin Bland
Extra Cover: Allan Border

Mid On: Rohan Kanhai
Mid Off: Derek Randall
Fine Leg:Joe Solomon/Conrad Hunte(Just can't split them)

 

[greg]

I'd put Hick as one of the best slippers I've seen tbh never seemed to drop anything.

I remember Hick as a 50 percenter - massively over-rated.

Keeper - Knott
First slip - Strauss
Second slip - Botham/Flintoff
Third Slip - Anderson

Gully - ?

Cover point - Collingwood (for catches, couldn't hit the stumps on runouts for toffee)
Extra Cover - Gower
Short Leg - Bell (especially to spinners)
Fine Leg - Trott (he's a specialist, don't you know)

Mid on - Alistair Cook (specialist ball shiner)

 

[kingkallis]

I'd put Hick as one of the best slippers I've seen tbh never seemed to drop anything.

You serious? I saw him grassing several dollies, same goes for Mark Waugh. He dropped plenty of easy catches.

They both looked classy while taking those slip catches so memory keeps such good catches in our minds. I used to love each of Brian Young's slip catches as well...

 

[kingkallis]

1st slip: Mark Taylor / Brian McMillan
2nd slip: Azharuddin ( He rarely dropped a catch even in slips )
3rd Slip: AB de Villiers

Gully: Paul Collingwood

Point: Jonty Rhodes

Cover: Herschelle Gibbs

Mid on: Hansie Cronje ( Several of his direct hits came from long on... )

Outfielder: Brett Lee

Wicket keeper : Ian Healy

Off his own bowling : Chris Harris / Fanie de villiers

 

[kyear2]

I remember Hick as a 50 percenter - massively over-rated.

Keeper - Knott
First slip - Strauss
Second slip - Botham/Flintoff
Third Slip - Anderson

Gully - ?

Cover point - Collingwood (for catches, couldn't hit the stumps on runouts for toffee)
Extra Cover - Gower
Short Leg - Bell (especially to spinners)
Fine Leg - Trott (he's a specialist, don't you know)

Mid on - Alistair Cook (specialist ball shiner)

Strauss is seriously over rated in the slips. Grasses some easy ones and doesn't really pull off any spectacular ones. Stands to close to Prior and that way is also shielded

 

[kyear2]

You serious? I saw him grassing several dollies, same goes for Mark Waugh. He dropped plenty of easy catches.

They both looked classy while taking those slip catches so memory keeps such good catches in our minds. I used to love each of Brian Young's slip catches as well...

Totally agree. Mark pulled off some great ones, but then would put down the easiest sitters. From what little I saw of Greg Chappell he was the better player at second slip.