Mark Waugh catching appreciation thread

[stephen]

Was just looking up Mark Waugh as a draft option. I knew he was a gun in the slips and remember him taking a ton of catches, but the amount of catches he took is mind boggling. He took more catches than many wicket keepers and at a better rate than some of them.

Anyway, here is a great video from OS.

 

[Burgey]

Genuinely brilliant all round fielder. Completely freakish

I was at the scg one day and he was at silly point to Warne. As the ball was bowled his floppy hat flew off. Batsman plays the ball on the bounce to Waugh’s righthand and he catches it as he plucks his hat out of the air with his left. Hardly something to make a highlights reel but it was just a ridiculous piece of multi-faceted coordination

 

[honestbharani]

Best catch I have ever seen live.

 

[stephen]

Best catch I have ever seen live.

I just love The moronic look on Laxman's face. Like a catch that good shouldn't be allowed.

 

[honestbharani]

His expressions every time he gets out are always priceless.

 

[Red]

MWaugh...my favourite cricketer of all time. Loved everything about him

 

[Line and Length]

.... I always thought Bob Simpson was the best slipper I'd seen but "Junior" takes some beating.

 

[TheJediBrah]

He took more catches than many wicket keepers and at a better rate than some of them.

He was possibly the best slipper ever but I don't think either of these statements are really true. I challenge you to find a wicket keeper that took less catches than him over a similar number of matches, or one with a lower rate that had played any decent number of games.

happy to be proven wrong though

 

[aussie tragic]

^ yep. Waugh took 181 catches in 128 matches so 1.41 per match.

The closest may be Bert Oldfield in 1920/30's who took only 78 catches in 54 Tests (1.44 pm) but that can't even be compared as he took an incredible 52 stumpings (so 130 dismissals at 2.41 pm)

 

[stephen]

Moin Khan, Oldfield, Kaluwitharina, Mongia and Ames all took less wickets at a lower wpm and played a decent number of tests.

In fact, if he took all those catches as keeper, Mark Waugh would be behind only 22 keepers in history in number of dismissals.

 

[aussie tragic]

Moin Khan, Oldfield, Kaluwitharina, Mongia and Ames all took less wickets at a lower wpm and played a decent number of tests.

In fact, if he took all those catches as keeper, Mark Waugh would be behind only 22 keepers in history in number of dismissals.

You need a new calculator maybe as all those wk's had a higher cpm than Waugh. And of course Waughs total is higher, he played a massive 128 Tests (e.g Bob Taylor took 14 less catches in 71 less tests, what's the relevance?)

 

[stephen]

You need a new calculator maybe as all those wk's had a higher cpm than Waugh. And of course Waughs total is higher, he played a massive 128 Tests (e.g Bob Taylor took 14 less catches in 71 less tests, what's the relevance?)

Ah yeah my bad. I was misreading the stats. I read dismissals per innings as per match.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Moin Khan, Oldfield, Kaluwitharina, Mongia and Ames all took less wickets at a lower wpm and played a decent number of tests.

In fact, if he took all those catches as keeper, Mark Waugh would be behind only 22 keepers in history in number of dismissals.

where the **** are you getting your numbers from?

Mark Waugh = 1.41 catches per game

Moin Khan = 1.86
Oldfield = 1.44
Kaluwitharana = 1.90
Mongia = 2.25
Ames = 1.57

edit:

Ah yeah my bad. I was misreading the stats. I read dismissals per innings as per match.

that makes sense

 

[Fuller Pilch]

^ yep. Waugh took 181 catches in 128 matches so 1.41 per match.

The closest may be Bert Oldfield in 1920/30's who took only 78 catches in 54 Tests (1.44 pm) but that can't even be compared as he took an incredible 52 stumpings (so 130 dismissals at 2.41 pm)

Stephen Fleming is the best I've seen - absolute bucket hands in the slips.

Highest ratios:
Mark Waugh 0.738 catches per innings.
Greg Chappell 0.739 catches per innings.
Graeme Smith 0.751 catches per innings
Mahela Jayawardene 0.759 catches per innings
Mark Taylor 0.759 catches per innings.
Ross Taylor 0.771 catches per inninhs
Stephen Fleming 0.859 catches per innings
Bob Simpson 0.940 catches per innings

 

[mr_mister]

had no idea OS was a youtube sensation. 2k subscribers not bad

 

[OverratedSanity]

Haha I used to download youtube cricket videos (mainly robelinda but many others as wll) and shoddily stitch together compilations of aravinda/lara/dravid/wasim who were some of my dad's favourite cricketers. He wasnt very good at youtube so Id make those and send them to him over whatsapp/email. I uploaded them for the lulz much later.