Comments on: Five Test wicketkeepers who quite often didn’t actually do any wicketkeeping https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/five-test-wicketkeepers-who-quite-often-didnt-actually-do-any-wicketkeeping/2022/04/27/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:54:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: Marees https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/five-test-wicketkeepers-who-quite-often-didnt-actually-do-any-wicketkeeping/2022/04/27/#comment-269441 Mon, 02 May 2022 04:41:52 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=26993#comment-269441 In reply to King Cricket.

I believe AB also had a decent batting avg as a keeper

]]> By: Lea https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/five-test-wicketkeepers-who-quite-often-didnt-actually-do-any-wicketkeeping/2022/04/27/#comment-269440 Sat, 30 Apr 2022 10:17:10 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=26993#comment-269440 In reply to King Cricket.

I wouldn’t call him “mad”, Niroshan just has “Big Dick(wella) Energy”.

]]> By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/five-test-wicketkeepers-who-quite-often-didnt-actually-do-any-wicketkeeping/2022/04/27/#comment-269437 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 22:11:10 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=26993#comment-269437 In reply to King Cricket.

Indeed – pretty darned crazy.

In the fine tradition of Daisy anglicising southern-Asian names (eg Sir Alf Ganguly) Daisy was surprised when she learned that the Sri Lankan keeper was named Dick Weller.

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/five-test-wicketkeepers-who-quite-often-didnt-actually-do-any-wicketkeeping/2022/04/27/#comment-269436 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:45:04 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=26993#comment-269436 In reply to Ged Ladd.

Niroshan Dickwella.

]]> By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/five-test-wicketkeepers-who-quite-often-didnt-actually-do-any-wicketkeeping/2022/04/27/#comment-269435 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:30:55 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=26993#comment-269435 The problem with these “batsmen who also did wicketkeeping” characters, as distinct from “wicketkeepers proper” is that the latter group includes many who are/were as mad as a box of frogs, whereas the former group is devoid of such characters.

Alan Knott & Jack Russell are the most obvious examples from the canon of eccentric England keepers, but other corners of the cricketing world have yielded some nutty stumpers – with Rishabh Pant continuing a tradition of Indian eccentrics that goes back to Farokh Engineer if not further.

Certainly the tradition in England goes back a long way. Mordecai Sherwin as goalkeeper/wicketkeeper is but one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Sherwin

]]> By: King Cricket https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/five-test-wicketkeepers-who-quite-often-didnt-actually-do-any-wicketkeeping/2022/04/27/#comment-269422 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:27:22 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=26993#comment-269422 In reply to Robb.

His name cropped up when we were putting this together but we actually saw him more in the ‘kept more than you think he did’ category.

]]> By: Robb https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/five-test-wicketkeepers-who-quite-often-didnt-actually-do-any-wicketkeeping/2022/04/27/#comment-269416 Wed, 27 Apr 2022 23:44:12 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=26993#comment-269416 For whatever reason, I often think of AB de Villiers as a wicketkeeper but that appears to be rather misguided. He only had the gloves on in 24 of 114 tests, and 59 of 218 ODIs. Weird.

]]> By: Lea https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/five-test-wicketkeepers-who-quite-often-didnt-actually-do-any-wicketkeeping/2022/04/27/#comment-269415 Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:01:31 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=26993#comment-269415 The best thing about Sanga’s keeping is the fact cricinfo put him in their “Test team of the decade” as keeper, for a decade he didn’t keep in.

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