Wicketkeepers who bowl

[Richard]

Gibbs bowls medium pacers, and is an almost certain non-bowler for the remainder of his career!

Good - t'would be a waste of his fielding brilliance!

 

[Neil Pickup]

It's the same as most teams of your age.
When I was an under-15 most of the side batted and bowled.

It's pretty much the same with the 11s and 13s now, the danger with that kind of situation is the same people bowl and bat, the other 4/5 do nothing, get bored, don't come back again...

 

[marc71178]

Eh?
You're saying that Hoggard is and isn't exclusively a blocker?

I meant isn't.

If with a top order player, he can stay in for an hour or more.

If with a lower player, he can play shots.

 

[Richard]

It's pretty much the same with the 11s and 13s now, the danger with that kind of situation is the same people bowl and bat, the other 4/5 do nothing, get bored, don't come back again...

That has been the danger with all cricket up to about u16 for, oh, about 100 years.
The important thing is how the coaches handle that possibility.
The good coaches keep them all happy, the less good ones don't.