Who are cricket's all-time best fielders? | Crickpicks EP 11

[@shrirams3242]

It's interesting nobody even considered Raina in this list, he is one of the very few Indian fielders who can field anywhere on the ground and by far the best Indian fielder from 2005- 2014.Even Jonty Rhodes rated Raina as better fielder than ABD and Jadeja

[@TheNeo349]

Yuvraj as well, a live wire in the field. probably the best point fielder of his era and a gun arm who could get runouts from any place in the field.

[@nooneknows19]

I think Jonty rated him highly cos Raina reminded him of himself. Scrappy and basically a dive first and think later attitude. Doesn’t mean he was a better fielder than others on the list.

[@shrirams3242]

@@nooneknows19 i agree to that, but I can't agree to that Raina is not in the top 15 list of best fielders, also there is reason why Jonty Rhodes rated that particular aspect of raina highly, because you don't come across fielders like that in cricket considering the time he debuted

[@happydhaliwal9832]

Riana was ordinary cricketer who made his career just by sucking off to dhoni

[@happydhaliwal9832]

Raina was ordinary cricketer who made his career by sucking off to dhoni

[@ConradMcBad]

Also just wanted to mention I was there at Hagley Oval for the Jadeja catch that Behram is referring to. Neil Wagner was looking in better touch than most of our batters, and absolutely nailed a back-foot hook shot. The TV replay doesn't do it justice, because the camera hadn't caught up with the ball. Jadeja was halfway between the inner circle and the boundary, leaps half backwards and plucks it out of the air at the top of his jump, one handed. Even the home fans just stood up and applauded. Ian Smith said it's quite possibly the greatest catch in the history of the game.

[@ConradMcBad]

For a nation traditionally pegged as a 'great fielding team' - I was a bit disappointed not to hear more Kiwis mentioned. Agree that McCullum was more effort than talent, but Chris Harris was an all-timer. Absolute sniper from cover/point. There's a great compilation of his runouts on a channel called Kiwi Seamers. Nathan Astle has a resume of screamers in the deep, and more recently, Guptill is probably the best we've had in the last 20 years. Phillips will probably go down as one of our best ever. Others I'd put ahead of Baz: Neesham, Henry, Southee.

[@TheNeo349]

Totally agree with Glenn Phillips, that guy is a superman in the field

[@Si_fighter]

I think Harris is our best ever. Absolute gun across the ground and deadly accurate. Also a really great fielder of own bowling with amazing reflexes. Pleased to see Flem get a shout out for good slippers. Had great anticipation. I'd also throw in a mention for Jacob Oram at gully.

[@ConradMcBad]

Yeah, Oram was surprisingly athletic for his size. He played as a goalkeeper in soccer, so carried those reflexes through to his gully and slip fielding. My memories of 90's cricket is littered with cries of "Catch it Harry!"

[@SeriousBartYT]

​@@ConradMcBad Thanks for recommending a cool channel.

[@dakshgupta2491]

Wow no one mentioned Glenn Phillips

[@srinath124]

Exactly ! Big miss!

[@IanPaulWright]

I'm late here but I saw Jim Foat play! I once saw him run out Alan Butcher with a direct hit from cover off the first ball of a 40 over match! A decent top five Gloucestershire fielders would include the aforementioned Symonds, Rhodes,as well as Foat, Ian Harvey and Alistair Hignell (an international Rugby full back). Surprised no mention for Derek Randall....

[@ankitmittal4879]

Shahdab Khan before Brendon McCullum, Suresh Raina, Glenn Philips, Chris Jordan, Yuvraj Singh, Michael Clarke, Chris Haris, Martin Guptil. WOW !!?

[@jessica.bell.000]

Best bespectacled cricketers. David Steele. Alf Valentine. Zaheer Abbas.

[@duhduh666]

Colin Bland, Sir Garfield Gary Sobers, Roger Harper, Clive Lloyd - thank you for mentioning these greats

[@ayushsinha1813]

I don't agree with the thing of fielders as being very good at all positions because teams might not use some fielders in different positions, nor with hitting the stumps. Getting run outs depends on batters making mistakes but someone with the energy of Jonty saves more runs per game by planting doubts, covering ground and lifts the energy in his team. I'll go with Estelle.

[@RishiAnupam]

Mention of Eknath Solkar reminded me of Indian opener Shiv Sunder Das, who was an absolute beast at FSL (34 catches in 23 Test matches, which isn't incredible, but is pretty good).

[@shivansh.j]

Pretty Solid

[@amansparekh]

Amazing how many of these stokes ends up in

[@robs6952]

I always loved watching Derek Randall fielding

[@robs6952]

The clips I have seen of Colin Bland practicing, it wouldn’t surprise me if he never missed the stumps!

[@santugk]

Mark Waugh, Mark Taylor, Rahul Dravid, Mahela Jayawardene were all good slip catchers.

[@SidneyKochman]

I know Constantine got dismissed because there just isn't enough reporting about fielding in the games he played. But one of the things that came up was the value of fielders who viewed fielding as a skill worth perfecting, and CLR James was very adamant about how much Constantine worked at his fielding and really how he used his fielding to sell himself as a professional cricketer.

[@thomasoshea7637]

Some of the modern great fast bowlers. Anderson, Southee, Boult

[@kdawggg2413]

I saw Aiden Markram take an absolute screamer of a catch for the Sunrisers Eastern Cape in the SA20 league

[@navdeepsingh7091]

Thanks a lot for your in depth analysis. literally, you have the best cricket commentary channel. I always wonder why your channel is so underrated

[@swapanjain892]

Because it's actually good.

[@Navin4061]

Jadeja, Ponting, Rhodes, Faf, ABD and Raina. And Dravid just for his slip fielding alone. 😅

[@nsn5564]

My top 8 Indian fielders of all time: 1. Eknath Solkar 2. Mohmd Azharuddin 3. Jadeja 4. Kapil Dev 5. Raina 6. Pataudi 7. Kaif 8. Yuvraj

[@santugk]

Paul Collingwood was the most acrobatic catcher..

[@santugk]

Top 5 Aussies: Andrew Symonds Ricky Ponting Micheal Clark David Warner Steve Smith

[@raamcaash]

Would be interesting to look at how many of the picks are left handed and or ambidextrous … being ambidextrous obviously makes for a good fielder but somehow left handed tend to be better fielder … similarly left footed footballers tend to do better … 😇

[@harifederer]

Left handers are only better in the sense that there are less of them so they often get more run outs because batsmen can easily forget that the left is their dominant arm.

[@santugk]

My Top 5: Jonty Rhodes Herschel Gibbs Ricky Ponting Ravi Jadeja Andrew Symonds

[@akshaymate954]

Greatest Fielders of all time: AB de Villiers Johnty Rhodes Ravindra Jadeja Andrew Symonds Brendon McCullum Paul Collingwood Suresh Raina Dwayne Bravo Eknath Solkar Faf du Plessis

[@sanjeetsinghk]

Dude suresh raina was unreal during his time and I think you guys did him a dirty

[@jk2435]

Sir Ravi Jadeja, Md Kaif, Sursh Raina

[@anonymouslyopinionated656]

kaif was great, raina was just good, but not at best ever level. they get a lot of additional attention because of being the first truly exceptional fielders from India

[@nsn5564]

I've been watching cricket from the Gavadkar days and I think Mohammed Azharuddin is probably India's best fielder all time, with perhaps Jadeja second.

[@Raghuram_2894]

Md Kaif, Md azharuddin, yuvraj, Kapil dev, Yaspal Sharma were pretty good in the field.

[@rogerparker4468]

Lord Learie Constatine and Colin Bland, and a whole bunch of West Indians and Aussies.

[@ashokkt01]

Got me, when he started with Faf DuPlessis

[@sdroy84agt]

Md. Azharuddin ..could field anywhere just like Mark Waugh ..from FSL & Silly Point to slips (both spinners & pacers) to point, cover and short mid wicket to being a boundary rider and he was very good to great everywhere.

[@shivansh.j]

But he is nowhere near the Great Mark Waugh

[@SampoornaHiring]

Top 10 Indian fielders of all time 1 - Ravindra Jadeja 2 - Mohammed Kaif 3 - Yuvraj Singh 4 - Robin Singh 5 - Mohammed Azharuddin 6 - Ajay Jadeja 7 - Virat Kohli 8 - Hardik Pandya 9 - Ajinkya Rahane 10 - Kapil Dev

[@dpatel6666]

You're obviously young. Indias first winning teams had Bedi, Prassana, Chandrashekhar, Venkat Raghavan. Most of their wickets came from the daring, protectionless, close fielding of Eknath Solkar.

[@Raghuram_2894]

​@@dpatel6666 name is already picked in the video.

[@SATULAL]

Great discussion! You can't fit them all in. When it comes to honorary mentions of "underrated" all around fielders, Sachin and M. Hussey were very good in the field!

[@pradeepchandrasekaran4087]

Ricky pointing all the way(from pointing hater during his playing days)

[@mfm386]

Missed the two Glenns Phillips and Maxwell

[@VARMOT123]

Moises Henriques is extremely safe

[@devynkumar1997]

Glen Phillips has to be on the list

[@TheGovind2]

Pune warriors India Steve smith was extremely well as a fielder….

[@bhavesh9702]

Hey Jarrod, Estelle's twitter link in your description is dead

[@jessica.bell.000]

There should be a number 1 after her name.

[@sagarhirani4559]

Let's do one for the best wicketkeepers ever. Not based on their batting, but just based on their keeping skills. Also, one for the worst fielders of all time should be very fun as well 😂

[@sagarhirani4559]

I don't like this. This dependency on content by Jarrod Kimber. When he has a new video out, I'm happy. When he doesn't, I'm miserable. This is a very weird one sided codependent relationship that I'm not very thrilled about. But new cricpicks is out so I'm happy! Yayy 😊

[@nooneknows19]

I so agree with this.

[@surajjha2814]

Top wicket keeper batter of all time for next podcast

[@Artdrift93]

No mention of Raina and Glenn Phillips is weird.

[@raamcaash]

Joel garner missed … Gus Logie missed …

[@sumit-ni3hi]

Viv - 75 world Cup and the rest following 15 years

[@Hemant-m6i]

If these people can get biased and choose shadab khan in top...i also gonna get little biased and choose inzamam as best runner of all time...😂😂😂😂😂

[@subhAjitDin]

My top 5 alltime fielders are 5. Herschelle Gibbs 4. Faf du Plessis 3. Ravindra Jadeja 2. Jonty Rhodes 1. Ricky Ponting Top 5 alltime Indian Fielders 5. Ajay Jadeja 4. Md. Kaif 3. Md. Azharuddin 2. Yuvraj Singh 1. Ravindra Jadeja Hon'ble mentions : Suresh Raina, Robin Singh, Eknath Solkar

[@santugk]

Top 5 Indian fielders: Ravi Jadeja Manish Panday Yuvraj Singh Mohammad Kaif Ajay Jadeja Mohammed Azharuddin/Suresh Raina(Consolation Picks)

[@shanewilson2484]

Colin Bland

[@AbdulMannan-sh6km]

@Behram Imran Butt and Imran nazir could have made it to the list

[@surajjha2814]

Top all rounder of all time

[@lukekelly7544]

Glenn Phillips

[@surajjha2814]

Jarrod can pick average one and make us believe he is the best😂

[@aman5428]

Jhonty thought Raina was the top fielder that he has seen.

[@akshay_9146]

A name I'd pick would be Mohammad Azharuddin, granted his match fixing has tarnished his legacy but as a fielder he was top notch. Still holds the record for most catches in ODI for India. Also he had a bullet arm for direct hits.

[@tpjpower]

Steve Smith isn’t even the best fielder in the current Australian team. 😅 At least Shadab is the best in his own side.

[@tuhinsubhranath4900]

Nobody picked Azhar😢

[@ViktorK-ul8mu]

Raina > Jadeja > Kaif

[@rahulsuri6175]

Nobody even mentions Muhammad Kaif.... common.....Seems a collective brain fade

[@kumardivyasingh3291]

Tell me you don't follow international cricket without actually telling it

[@ammar6036]

i support shaddy daddy

[@shs4293]

How is Pollard and Stokes better than Raina and Md Kaif/ Yuvraj?

[@kumardivyasingh3291]

Because they are. Follow some international cricket and don't embarrass us Indians please. Shut up if you don't know any better

[@anonymouslyopinionated656]

lol those guys were good for india standards, not all-time

[@happydhaliwal9832]

If yuvraj is not in best all time fielder than this series should be canceled

[@PYogaaaa]

He's nowhere near close lol. This nationalism nonsense wave in the country has caused a mass hysteria and people don't know what's real and what's delusion anymore.

[@sanchitsharma6852]

Ohh shutup. Even Raina was better than him

[@Soumik_Mondal_fullstack_dev]

@happydhaliwal9832 wtf are you talking about he is certainly a good fielder but he gets overrated bcuz India at that time didn't have that good fielders so his fielding is bit overhyped

[@happydhaliwal9832]

@@Soumik_Mondal_fullstack_dev shut up and stop watching cricket you are too dumb to see how good he was

[@happydhaliwal9832]

@@Soumik_Mondal_fullstack_dev i think you are to dumb to see how good he was

[@prakashpant6288]

You people have not seen Muhammad Azharuddin - he was better than any

[@anonymouslyopinionated656]

he was great slip-catcher. less exceptional in other aspects.

[@roshanraj9831]

Man these are fools not cricket experts listening what they are saying about suresh raina , if ravindra jadeja is there then ravindra jadeja promax is yuvraj singh no metion of him (mark wagh 😂😂😂😂)

[@anonymouslyopinionated656]

lol tell me you're super middle class with limited exposure without telling me