Ian Healy vs BJ Watling

[Fuller Pilch]

The main elements about BJ Watling that I think mark him out above others are:

(i) He made some tough runs. He seemed to perform best when the team were up against it and made some really invaluable runs.
(ii) He gave a man of the match interview once where he could barely string a sentence together and sounded more like one of Beavis and Butthead. Sadly can't find the footage
(iii) He's described in the caption to this official BlackCaps You Tubes video as the "wicket-leper"

Ian Healy's biggest contribution on the other hand is crashing a Segway whilst linking items on an Australian telecast. Which will never not be funny.

Brilliant footage of Healy and it looks like a lovely warm summer's day of about 8 degrees at uni oval in the Watling clip.

 

[kyear2]

I agree Healy was the better keeper out of the two, but Watling was also excellent behind the stumps, and his batting was clearly superior to Healy’s. Not sure why you think this isn’t close.

Let me rephrase for clarity.

Healy is the best gloveman I've seen, and it's not close.

Wasn't talking about the whole package

 

[kyear2]

Amazing to see that Watling is preferred, its the correct choice for sure, Ian Healy is the worst cricketer to play 100 tests.

Why do you persist with this nonsense.