Ian Healy vs Mark Boucher vs Adam Parore

[Flem274*]

imagine if either were relevant to the thread question

 

[Fuller Pilch]

The 4 best pure glovemen I've seen are (in no particular order):

Ian Smith
Ian Healy
Jack Russell
Prasanna Jayawardene

 

[harsh.ag]

imagine if either were relevant to the thread question

Thread title's weirdly constricting. Mentions a second tier of wk-bats but then converges on three keepers, one of whom isn't even a contemporary of the other two per se.

 

[NUFAN]

@RedHill - Healy made 5 of his 9 scores of 80+ in Tests with the score of 5 for under 200. Technically one of the innings he came in at 6 but the score was already above 200 so that counted as one of the 4 not-so-bad situations to make runs in.

 

[Burgey]

de Villiers wouldn't be making Australia's AT XI either FWIW

He wouldn't be in the third XI.

Once again, the likes of ***** with some outrageous posting of a weekend when I'm too busy/ cbf/ pissed to post. Appalling stuff. Anyone with tuppence worth of brains knows TOTAB walks into the ATG Australian XI at five ahead of that bitter and twisted old man (Harvey, not me).

 

[Bahnz]

I'd forgotten just how much Parore put Warne to the sword in this innings at Perth. Quite brutal considering Warnie was in his pomp in Australian conditions... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2PqIIDDNoo

Yeah, Parore was a massive under achiever with the bat. Had genuine class, as shown by the fact that his two test hundreds came against the two strongest bowling attacks of his era (the Windies in 1994 and Australia in 2001 - he also scored a cracking ODI hundred against a SA in 1995 I think), but still managed to muddle his way through to a mid-20's average. Became almost as good as Healy with the gloves, but obviously in terms of results with the bat the weakest of the three.

 

[Son Of Coco]

When some big Kiwi prick, gets a 4 from a snick, that's Parore. When the whole team says "****, what about this bloke's luck" that's Parore.

 

[NZTailender]

Yeah, Parore was a massive under achiever with the bat. Had genuine class, as shown by the fact that his two test hundreds came against the two strongest bowling attacks of his era (the Windies in 1994 and Australia in 2001 - he also scored a cracking ODI hundred against a SA in 1995 I think), but still managed to muddle his way through to a mid-20's average. Became almost as good as Healy with the gloves, but obviously in terms of results with the bat the weakest of the three.

The fact he was good enough (NZ good enough I guess) to be picked as a specialist bat shows how much he underachieved really.

 

[Bahnz]

A part of that is he retired so young. He was only 29 when he pulled stumps. Could've easily pushed his batting average up towards 30 with a few good years.

But he was a gigantic ****head, and when he was rightly dropped from the ODI squad for stinking up the joint (averaged 17 in his last 18 months in the side) he packed a gigantic sook and announced his retirement. Tbf, it was probably the right choice. He would've been pushed out of the side within a couple of years by McCullum, and it seems like he's done fairly well since then in the business world.

 

[Zinzan]

Yeah, in his book Astle fairly clearly implied he was just a *****. I think the fact that he was big Chris Cairns' best mate meant he got away with being a *** within the team culture more than otherwise.

 

[Bahnz]

Yeah, he was my idol as a young keeper batsman, until I met the prick in real life. Then I promptly switched my allegiance to Chris Harris who was just an awesome bloke.

 

[Tec15]

Boucher. Didn't choke like Healy did in close test matches (Karachi 1994, Bridgetown 1999), despite his supposed superior keeping.

 

[Burgey]

Standard Tec15 pish. If an Aussie cured cancer he'd complain they put oncologists out of work.

 

[Burgey]

Or is he just one-eyed about Boucher?

 

[harsh.ag]

Or is he just one-eyed about Boucher?

The cancer thing makes more sense.

 

[GotSpin]

Can we hear some Parore stories atleast

 

[The Hutt Rec]

I remember some debacle about his brother coming along to a NZ practice and then nicking off with half the team's gear.

Also he refused to shave and wore sunglasses under Glenn Turner's reign of terror.

Apart from that, just generally being a bit of a dick.

I dunno, I still quite like him though. I remember his book being a pretty fascinating read. It included his take on things, but also had short bits from other people giving their side of the story. Mostly the other sides weren't too complimentary for Parore ... but reading his side of it, he seemingly couldn't see anything wrong with his actions.

 

[Zinzan]

Healy is the best pure keeper in my time watching, although I was surprised to watch Lara's 153 video the other day to see Healy put down a crucial catch that would have sealed that test & the series.

 

[Bahnz]

I vaguely remember an anecdote about him trying to impress a couple of girls in a bar (I think while NZ was touring WI) by jumping up onto a table, taking his shirt off and swinging it around his head.

Also, wasn't he fired from the sky commentary team back in 2003 for turning up to the comm box drunk?

 

[Zinzan]

I remember some debacle about his brother coming along to a NZ practice and then nicking off with half the team's gear.

Also he refused to shave and wore sunglasses under Glenn Turner's reign of terror.

Apart from that, just generally being a bit of a dick.

I dunno, I still quite like him though. I remember his book being a pretty fascinating read. It included his take on things, but also had short bits from other people giving their side of the story. Mostly the other sides weren't too complimentary for Parore ... but reading his side of it, he seemingly couldn't see anything wrong with his actions.

Yeah agree with this, bit a of **** obviously, but no so different than most top sportsmen to be fair, single-minded and competitive.

I do admire him for this ..