The best pure wicketkeeper of all time

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Discussion around the best pure wicketkeeper of all time, disregarding batting ability altogether.

Throw some names and rationale around.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Only going by the ones I’ve seen a lot of it’s hard to separate Allan Knott and Bob Taylor. Both top class at everything with different slightly higher qualities. Knott had the longer Test career due to his superior batting. But this wasn’t a Russell and Stewart situation where a world class keeper was dumped for a batsman wearing gloves. Knott and Taylor were two great keepers. After that Wasim Bari who is underrated and Healy.

 

[mr_mister]

Godfrey Evans I thought is also generally considered top 5

 

[JBMAC]

Don Tallon

 

[Malcolm]

Wriddhiman Saha

 

[vcs]

Kamran Akmal

 

[trundler]

Oldfield's stumping ratio is obscenely good.

 

[Coronis]

Its always going to be an impossible discussion this one, basically everyone will pick the best one they’ve seen, making it impossible to compare across eras, due to lack of relevant stats for keepers. One thing I’ve always found interesting though is Oldfield’s percentage of stumpings. Seems quite insane, and was not just at test level.

 

[Starfighter]

Its always going to be an impossible discussion this one, basically everyone will pick the best one they’ve seen, making it impossible to compare across eras, due to lack of relevant stats for keepers. One thing I’ve always found interesting though is Oldfield’s percentage of stumpings. Seems quite insane, and was not just at test level.

Kept to a huge proportion spin bowling, but I can imagine the same goes with keepers in other countries like India too.

 

[Coronis]

Kept to a huge proportion spin bowling, but I can imagine the same goes with keepers in other countries like India too.

Mhm, even so the closest to him Evans, Kirmani and Dhoni all played with some great spinners, yet in ~90 tests each did not come close to him.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Godfrey Evans and Dujon for me.

 

[Starfighter]

Mhm, even so the closest to him Evans, Kirmani and Dhoni all played with some great spinners, yet in ~90 tests each did not come close to him.

Hence every bit after the comma...

 

[Burgey]

Ian Healy was excellent. Being such a bad commentator sort of clouds his legacy imo. As does Gilly coming straight after him and being such a complete package.

 

[andruid]

Tariq Iqbal

 

[Shri]

Prasanna Jayawardene was really good.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah he really was.

 

[fredfertang]

James Foster, just, from Sarah Taylor - that pair apart I'd have agreed with LT

 

[Burgey]

Glad to see Wasim Bari getting some love here. Bloke was quality

 

[Teja.]

Think it’s interesting that generally, with exceptions, the respect that keepers get is directly linked to how long ago they played.

 

[mr_mister]

Think it’s interesting that generally, with exceptions, the respect that keepers get is directly linked to how long ago they played.

And how little they averaged with the bat