LongHopCassidy said:
Is that a joke?
Australia has some of the best fielders in the world, and most are well above average. Australia can attribute a vast part of its success to its fielding.
I suppose you'd like to believe that the English are all Jonties in the field?
Nope, not at all - I don't show nationalistic bias.
The fielding in the SA-Eng series was far better than anything I've seen for a long while, though, I'll say that - even if SA were a bit better. But I'm hoping we might actually see your guys dropping a few clangers while we hang-on to most - for the first time in quite a while - next summer.
Australia could attribute a large part of their success in the 1999-2002 times to their fielding, yes - in The Ashes 2001, for instance, barely a thing went down.
Australia have one exceptional fielder in Andrew Symonds, a couple of decent ones (Hogg, Lee) and several jokes (Martyn, McGrath, Gillespie, Kasprowicz, Langer, Lehmann - about the only thing he can't do for s**t). They also have those who are sporadically brilliant but more often incompetant (Hayden, Clarke, Ponting nowadays) and people like to remember their brilliance rather than their incompetance, especially when the brilliance happens to have been the more recent.