Fill in keepers

[vic_orthdox]

Yeh, I think so. I heard Ian Chappell talk about the gates takings of a test at the MCG once, and compared them to what the payers were getting paid. That team in the 70s were drawing massive crowds but the players were getting none of it.

Sorry, thought you meant money in the game for the players.

Others to do it, AB in his autobiography tells a great story about Boonie doing it one day, them all calling him "Rod".

 

[Howe_zat]

Man that quote in your sig candy is the absolute best.

Greigesque.

 

[BeeGee]

Mark Greatbatch filled in with the gloves on occasion.

 

[superkingdave]

John Crawley was a more than decent backup wicketkeeper

 

[Howe_zat]

John Crawley was a more than decent backup wicketkeeper

Famously kept wicket for England on ICC2005.

 

[Migara]

Unfortunately rarely happens for SL. These days we struggle to find a fill in bowler. (PJ, Kaushal Silva, Sangakkara and Chandimal all are keepers. Can add Dilshan too, who has kept in a test).

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Bill Athey was a decent keeper and should have had a longish stint behind the stumps in a Test against New Zealand. Bruce French was the keeper who got injured and Athey took his place for a while and should have stayed there. But England were surprisingly allowed to call up first the retired Bob Taylor and then County pro Bobby Parks as a substitute.

 

[Red]

Didn't realise til now there'd been a rule change around this. Kind of disappointing tbh

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/wicketkeepers-substitutes-mcc-new-code-of-laws-12th-man-cricket-australia-icc/2017-04-12

 

[fredfertang]

Foxy Fowler was a great 'keeper

Frank Woolley on the other hand wasn't - he took over from Les Ames at the Oval in '34 and conceded 37 byes

 

[mr_mister]

i remember recently it seemed half of SL's top 7 were keeper-batsmen

 

[SeamUp]

Remember when Mark Boucher cut his hand slicing biltong on a tour to Australia.

Hall kept , took the gloves off and bowled and Boeta Dippenaar (?) took the gloves over.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Mahmudullah has a stumping in tests.

Kayes was the good-to second string keeper

 

[Dendarii]

Remember when Mark Boucher cut his hand slicing biltong on a tour to Australia.

Hall kept , took the gloves off and bowled and Boeta Dippenaar (?) took the gloves over.

I can't remember who kept to Hall in that match, but Dippenaar did keep in another ODI, although I have no clue about the circumstances.

6th Match, Morocco Cup at Tangier, Aug 19 2002 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

 

[S.Kennedy]

Vic Richardson (and Grimmett) was packed off on tour to South Africa. Bradman withdrew from this tour then replaced Richardson as a captain of South Australia - permantly. It was a sort of coup to get rid of an 'undesirable' faction in South Australia led by Richardson.

 

[SeamUp]

I can't remember who kept to Hall in that match, but Dippenaar did keep in another ODI, although I have no clue about the circumstances.

6th Match, Morocco Cup at Tangier, Aug 19 2002 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

Got to miss the random triangulars and series in Tangier and Sharjah

 

[Dendarii]

A bit of digging revealed that match to be the final match of the round robin stage and the result had no bearing on who made it through to the final. So both teams rested key players, hence Dippenaar taking the gloves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Morocco_Cup

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/sport/kalliss-84-anchors-sa-to-220-516216

 

[randycricfreak]

Mahela Jayawardena once kept wickets in a Champions League T20 for Wayamba(Sri Lanka) side